“Artistically brilliant, absolutely hilarious” - New York Post

“Made us laugh until the tears flowed” - London Daily Telegraph

“Brilliant dancers, beautiful choreography, stunning costumes & sets” - New York Observer

Direct from a sell-out tour of Europe and Asia, comes the most spectacular, talented and hilarious all male comedy ballet ever. Hailed by critics as “The greatest exponents of all male comedy ballet in the world today”, international company Les Ballets Grandiva is set to arrive in Malaysia in May 2009.

The largest company of its kind in the world, Grandiva boasts over fifty ballets in its repertoire and twenty of the best international male ballet dancers from thirteen countries whose soloists have performed with Russia's Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets, New York Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The American Ballet Theatre, the prestigious Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Swedish Ballet, Berlin State Opera Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet to name a few.

Grandiva's "Men In Tutus" is the ultimate send up of both classical and contemporary ballet. The combination of brilliant dancing technique, tongue in cheek and blatant humour with intentional foibles, dancing mishaps and of course hissy fits by men playing both male and female roles (some of the men do actually look like gorgeous women, while others are hairy chested men with pancake makeup but all in tutus and dancing en pointe.) creates great entertainment that prompted the quotes below (see reviews).

Crew

Music - Philip Carroll

Resident Costume Designer - Jose Coronado

Musical Direction - Philip Carroll, Tim Darling, Baris Ehran

Choreographers

Peter Anastos, Marcus Galante, Brian Reeder, Victor Trevino, Matt Williams

Costume Designers

Jose Coronado, Tom Augustine, Kate Carroll, Steven Epstien, Christina Giannini, Oswaldo Muniz, Laurel Parrish, Christine Pascall, Clara Poteau, David Paulin, Thom J. Peterson, Katherine Shak, Marcus Galante

Reviews

... love Grandiva's Men In Tutus even if you are not a ballet buff - New York Post

If you are a ballet aficionado with an open mind, you will be enthralled - L.A. Times

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! - New York Daily Times

Grandiva's Men In Tutus is sheer brilliant entertainment - Japan Times

This group is absolutely the best and most enjoyable I have seen - San Francisco Chronicle

Some of the best male ballet dancers in the world, en pointe, sheer brilliance - Bolshoi Ballet's Vladamir Moiseev

Resplendent in frilly white outfits and pointe shoes, the ballerinas of Grandiva execute the most demanding moves of their art with technical precision and amazing grace - Asaha.com Japan

With absolutely brilliant choreography, they make it possible ... to instinctively understand that they are hilariously mocking the poses and tableaus of the classic art form - Dance

Choreographer Trevino duplicates every impossible Bolshoi - inspired, upside down, hang by a toenail, wrap around the neck lift - Backstage.com

Grandiva's highly sophisticated mix of pure side splitting comedy, combined with a deep and esoteric reference to both classical and modern ballet is stunning - London's Daily Mirror

... not a drag show, but a brilliant artistic & comical send up of the world of dance - USA Today

Just as Matthew Bourne did with "Swan Lake", attracting audiences with a bunch of masculine swans, Grandiva draws laughter with elaborate, exaggerated movements and a twist of the classical ballet formula - The Korea Times Grandiva demonstrates essential dance qualities, a profound sense of rhythm, gorgeously shaped phrasing, palpable joy in motion and lion hearted courage in performance - all too rarely seen these days in the highest temples of art - Village Voice New York

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