History Moves in Tutus and Greasepaint
Deidre Schoo for The New York Times
Published: December 29, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/fashion/30Gimlet.html?_r=1

"AND a two and an up and a down, and eyes to the back of the room," Charla Genn said from a perch at stage right at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea. "And a beep, and a ba-ba-ba and a tour jeté and you're fabulous, you're marvelous, relax."

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"Don't get too comfortable," Tory Dobrin, the company's artistic director, instructed the assembled ballerinas. "Enjoy your five minutes, and then come back in your tutus and no wigs."

Slipping on leg warmers and sweatshirts, the dancers then hustled toward the wings, as motley an assortment of ballerinas — tall ones, short ones, stocky ones, thin ones, smooth and also hairy-chested ones — as you are ever likely to see assembled onstage. That is intentional, of course. All of the dancers in the Trocks, as the company is known, are men.