Ballerina Boys on Jan 18, 2024 | UCSB Arts & Lectures

“The reach this company has had for decades in exposing so many to ballet is a testament to the necessity of diversity, inclusion, love, passion and humor in the arts.” – Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer

Inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo were fueled by the spirit of defiance and creative exuberance that the gay rights movement unleashed. This documentary film follows the troupe on tour in an epicenter of continued struggles for LGBTQ rights, interweaving original interviews and contemporary and archival performance footage to tell the company’s remarkable history.