All-male troupe adds comic turns to ballet classics

HE CAN laugh about it now but it didn't seem so funny at the time.

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Victor Trevino, a resident of New York for 25 years, had arranged to meet me, a first-time Big Apple visitor, at a bar and grill at the corner of 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue. I turned up but he didn't, having gone instead to the intersection one block along at Ninth Avenue. Our mobile phones soon sorted the confusion.

Thankfully, there is no doubt about his ability to navigate his way around the dance floor, where he has dazzled and amused audiences for the best part of three decades.
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Trevino heads Les Ballets Eloelle, an all-male New York comedy ballet troupe that has risen from the ashes of the men-in-tutus ensemble Les Ballets Grandiva.

The company might play for laughs but the ensemble includes dancers from such celebrated mainstream companies as the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Berlin State Opera and Hong Kong Ballet.

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All-male troupe adds comic turns to ballet classics

All-male troupe adds comic turns to ballet classics

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