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Monday, January 21, 2013

The Kazaky: The Dance Boy's Band

By Jerry U. Ortwein


Kazaky (also known as The Boys in Heels) is a Ukrainian all-male dance group, made up of Oleg Zhezhel (a founder and choreographer), Artur Gaspar, 28, a former student at the St. Petersburg State Ballet Theater; Francesco Borgato, 22, a mop-headed Italian who replaced a founding member, Stas Pavlov, in 2011; and Kyryll Fedorenko, 21, a onetime competitive ballroom dancer.

Assembled in Kiev by Zhezhel, a choreographer, the group has released several songs which may have gain popularity online. The gang confronts gender norms by fusing masculine and feminine attributes together, such as by regularly wearing stiletto heels.

"Kazaky" is Russian for "Cossacks". The Cossacks were built with a very prominent role from the shaping of Ukraine's national history and culture. Though the group claims the name has nothing related to the Cossacks. Instead, it is said how the Japanese language and culture have influenced their name.

During the last year, they've earned high praise from trend gatekeepers just like the fashion editor Anna Dello Russo, the photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and the designers Dan and Dean Caten of DSquared2, who invited several men to close their spring men's presentation last year. In overview of that relate for Style.com, Tim Blanks labeled the audience four dizzy queens having a post-Gaga get-outta-my-way-bitch shtick.

Subsequently, with millions of views on YouTube with their music videos like Love and In the very center, the boys of Kazaky have dug their five-and-a-half-inch heels firmly to the world stage. Campy but deadpan, they're arguably section of the boy band revival, however fringe, attributable to their European contemporaries One Direction along with the Wanted. Their flaw-free dance moves also access the availability of shows like So You Believe You Are Able To Dance and also the resurfacing from the 90s Vogue-ball aesthetic in New York's underground other. (The audience maintains they actually do all of their own choreography.)

The music, thumping electro clash with blunt phrases like Love me/Hate me/I dont care, is the sort of fluff many times about the Eurovision song contest. As well as in a period through which Kesha gabs on about subverting gender and sexuality norms, these fellows strut the strut.

Kazakys widest experience date, perhaps, was whenever they were chosen by Madonna, noted for cultivating emerging dance talent, being her backup dancers for her Girl Gone Wild video, which in fact had its debut in March. The clips stylist, the Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips, were required to create custom high heels hacked down from hooker boots, as Ms. Phillips called them, for each person in this rock band because she was can not find shoes of their sizes from the deadline.

Kazaky is sustainability is going to be tested with the relieve their still-untitled first album, tentatively planned for before fall, plus a new music video for Barcelona, its single. They're currently on their own worldwide AMen tour. A clothing line in collaboration with their stylist, Anna Osmekhina, is planned.




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