4/2. Wednesday. White Bird presents les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at the beautiful Arlene Schnitzer Hall. It's a group of men in tutu from New York, now in their 40th year. All performers use Russian stage names, including two black guys. These men, slim or not, balance on their toes in pink dresses, but still with hairy chest and underarm. Some dance very well. Mistakes are hard to tell, because they are made into the choreography. Very funny, exaggerated faults, modern street gestures into classical routines.
Act 1, Swan Lake, act 2. (Very nicely done)
Act 2, Pas de Deux (shows their Ballet competence, excellent), Pas de Quatre (boring), Dying Swan (short and funny, a bit tacky. Should be more traditional).
Act 3, Raymonda's Wedding. (so so)
