If you people payed attention to the video you'd know that sexual orientation has nothing to do with it. In Russia, ballet is a man's sport. When I saw the Moscow ballet there were MORE men than women in the production. The reason they started this company was because there just aren't enough ballerinas to go around and they want to dance even if they don't get one. It's supposed to be funny! And a boy in a tutu is funny! More power to them!
The director of this group did not come up with the idea. Les Ballets Trocadero was founded in New York twenty years earlier and they NEVER made any phony excuses as to why men were dancing the female roles. "Shortage of female dancers" nothing! There is an excess of good female dancers. The purpose of this is clear. Drag comedy can be hilarious when done well, as Les Ballets Trocadero has been proving worldwide for 35 years.
I think that is a bit grotesque, honestly, not because of bigotry, but because male are different in shape compared to female. Male is straight liners, while female are gracious and curvely
The Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo, a US based all-male troupe, has been doing this sort of thing for years. To my eyes, they are more feminine than the fine Russian dancers in this video. Also, they have an out, gay campiness. Just the sort of thing the commentators here who desperately need to portray ballet as a bastion of heterosexuality don't have the sense of humor to appreciate.
Oups! What to think? If you wanna loosen the roles, why not put women to men's roles in the same play? Women are typically quite handsome and sturdy in what they think that they would look like if they were men, and most men are quite fragile, so they could benefit a lot from women's values and ways.
this is just simple parody can anyone here see beyond their noses dancing on pointe its not about been fragile or femenim its about painful and hard and strength technique, and now its been used for impuving the male feet strength and archs so what the hell let them dance if you dont like something you just dont have to watch it¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
I never hear marathon runners called anorexic, ballet dancers train just as hard and for just as many long hours and burn just as many or more calories. I have been in ballet for 30 years and have never met an anorexic dancer, although do know they exist.
Anyone can put on pointe shoes but that doesn't mean they ought to! These guys can't even turn out! It's pathetic! *sigh* If any ballerina danced like that she would be booed off the stage!
i agree a man should dance like a man.. the ability of men dancing maybe "better" but it loses the element. i'm all for evolution and change but come on men and women play a role, defo on stage.. don't come at me being a homophobe (whatever that is) cause i'm gay.. and if you think when i say they play a role means men - butch, women - gracious then you've got me all wrong!. be creative THINK!. and the little dudes in the leotards hehe little cuties
