It is 25 minutes of proverbial jumping watching some sequences you can’t help but hold your breath in anticipation of someone cramping up, breaking a toe, falling hard, colliding, maybe collapsing. Having been performed countless times around the world, it remains a perennial crowd-pleaser, not because it is simple, but because it demands everything of the performers.Īmong dancers, it’s known for the degree of punishment meted out. While it brims with testosterone-fuelled sexiness, it dares to laugh at macho stereotypes. Inspired as much by the war games of ancient Greece as by such martial arts as aikido and capoeira, Troy Game has been hailed as much for the purity of the dancing as it has for its inventiveness and its wit. Julian Moss in rehearsal with CTCB for Troy Game. The studio is in a tucked-away part of Rondebosch, at the HQ of Cape Town City Ballet, where the all-male cast is being put through its paces in preparation for the opening of Troy Game, a 25-minute contemporary classic by the legendary British choreographer Robert North, ballet director of Germany’s Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach and creator of more than 90 ballets. One instant I’m seeing propulsive gymnastics, the next they are human sculptures. They’re not so much fighting as poking fun at the entire project of hyper-masculinity, executing a montage of moving friezes, their pace alternating between high-energy action and trancelike slow-motion. So much talent crammed into each individual body, such poise and discipline… And then a twinkle in an eye, and mocking laughter as the seriousness of athletic solos and group combat transitions into overt goofiness. These lower appendages, though, are like steel coated in porcelain, thighs and quadriceps rippled with evidence of years of training, calves shaped by relentless classes, bodies stretched and toned, supple and pliable thanks to regimented rehearsals. Simplify 10 Mixed Windows 10 Theme Pack (17 in 1) dpcdpc11 103 310 Simplify 10 Light - Windows 10 Theme Pack dpcdpc11 1,087 3,666 Maverick 10 - Windows 10 Theme Pack (22 in 1) dpcdpc11 273 837 Simplify 10 Colorful - Windows 10 Theme Pack dpcdpc11 214 669 Simplify 10 Dark - Windows 10 Theme Pack (50 in 1) dpcdpc11 1,434 6,695 Simplify 10 Dark Colorful - Windows 10 Themes dpcdpc11 32 1,280 WinMac Dark And Light Theme Windows 10 Cleodesktop 18 5 MONSTERS INC Permium Theme for Windows 10 protheme 8 2 Windows 11 Theme For Win10 Cleodesktop 19 7 Ubuntu Dark And Light Theme For Win10 Cleodesktop 6 0 Ubuntu Dark 20.CTCB in rehearsal for Troy Game.
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