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The Trocks Rock Bangkok
Life, Vidura Amranand, Published on 17/05/2012
» Ballet was alive again when Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (known affectionately by their worldwide fanbase as the Trocks) paid another visit to Bangkok last week at the Royal Paragon Hall. Dance-goers in Thailand who spend more that 600 baht per ticket to see a performance are rarely challenged with the kind of wit and intelligence this all-male and en-drag ballet troupe possesses. Big-budget musicals and many works billed in the annual Bangkok's International Festival of Dance and Music are so redundant that they narrow audiences' views of what is considered "beautiful dancing", and even more troubling, what is considered dance at all. Although the Trocks are no longer provocative or groundbreaking, even in the Thai dance scene, the company still holds its own special place in the international ballet world.
Acrobats give grounded performance
Life, Vidura Amranand, Published on 23/02/2012
» Recently, the Ieto Company, as part of La Fete, the Thai-French cultural festival, gave a Thai audience a night of pure entertainment and left some of us on the edge of our seats at Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts at Chulalongkorn University. The performers of the company, made up of Fnico Feldmann and Mosi Espinoza, performed Ieto, a playful display of acrobatic feats revolving around the idea of paradoxes: the serious Feldmann and the lighthearted Espinoza scaled and tumbled on seesawing wooden benches, springing from one trick to another.