Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo swan back into town this May
The Dance Consortium present its seventh tour of the iconic all-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, coming to the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford from Friday 29 to Saturday 30 May 2026. Fresh from celebrating their 50th anniversary, the Trocks continue to delight audiences worldwide with their unique brand of sassy classical ballet spoofs performed with choreographic rigour, flawless technique and impeccable comic timing.
Their perfectly judged blend of satire, subversion and slapstick is rooted in deep knowledge and respect for the artform and its repertoire.
Tour repertoire; Swan Lake; Pas de Deux; Go For Barocco; Dying Swan; Walpurgisnacht.
Swan Lake
Choreography after Lev Ivanovich Ivanov. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
The Trocks’ version of what is probably the best-known ballet in the world is an elegiac phantasmagoria of variations and ensembles in line and music. Swept up into the magical realm of swans (and birds), it is the company’s signature work.
Go For Barocco
Choreography by Peter Anastos. Music by JS Bach.
Billed as the stylistic heir to Balanchine’s “Middle-Blue-Verging-On-Black-and-White Period,” Go For Barocco has become a primer in identifying stark coolness and choreosymphonic delineation in the new (neo) neo-new classic dance!
Dying Swan
Choreography after Michel Fokine. Music by Camille Saint-Saens.
It’s probably no exaggeration to say that the Trocks’ version of Dying Swan, the solo created for Anna Pavlova in 1905, has become as iconic as the original.
Walpurgisnacht
Choreography by Elena Kunikova after Leonid Lavrovsky. Music by Charles Gounod
Inspired by the Bolshoi Ballet’s Valpurgeyeva Noch, the Trocks offer their version of the lavish ballet revelling in its dramatic, supernatural, mythological themes to joyful effect.
The Trocks’ enduring love of classical and romantic ballet has always been at the heart of what they do and their parodies of its conventions come from a place of deep knowledge and respect. For every show, its elite dancers transform into two personas, ballerina and danseur, to perform some of the most iconic and challenging roles from the classical ballet canon.
Founded in 1974 in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, The Trocks started life as a late-night act on the makeshift New York stage of an early LGBTQ+ organisation. They have always been trailblazers and inclusivity, gender fluidity and body positivity, once subversive now part of the mainstream, are a given for them.
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