Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is the world's foremost gender-skewering comic ballet company, parodying the conventions of romantic and classical ballet.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974 in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising, with the first performances held on the makeshift stage of the West Side Discussion Group’s loft space in downtown New York City. We’ve come a long way, baby…

Over its 50-year journey the company has grown into a crowd-pleasing, globe-spanning phenomenon, having performed in over 43 countries and 667 cities for enthusiastic crowds of all sizes, as well as connecting with small groups through engagement programs that focus on elements of their performance: The personas! The technique! The wigs!

Whether you have sought out the Trocks or the Trocks found you: they love the audiences who appreciate their satirical, silly, skilled, slapstick corner of the ballet world, long-time fans and newbies alike.

Comedy is serious business and ballet even more so. With that in mind, the Trock dancers work hard to balance their serious ballet technique with silly antics, all for the enjoyment of their audience.

Best known for presenting their lovingly-satirical takes on the tropes of classical ballet repertory, these versatile dancers layer slapstick humor with technical chops resulting in performances that simultaneously celebrate, skewer, and enliven the ballets that aficionados thought they knew and that newcomers are initiated into- through the universal language of laughter.