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Monday, 21 January 2013

Kazaky: Dance Boy's Band

By Heidy D. Metallo


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 audience has released several songs that have recognition online. The team confronts gender norms by fusing masculine and female attributes together, such as by regularly wearing stiletto heels.

"Kazaky" is Russian for "Cossacks". The Cossacks a very prominent role in the shaping of Ukraine's national history and culture. However the group claims that this name is not to do with the Cossacks. Instead, it is said that this Japanese language and culture have influenced their name.

The past year, they've got 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 shut their spring men's presentation last year. In overview of that relate for Style.com, Tim Blanks labeled the group four dizzy queens which has a post-Gaga get-outta-my-way-bitch shtick.

Subsequently, with countless views on YouTube of the music videos like Love and In the guts, the boys of Kazaky have dug their five-and-a-half-inch heels firmly in the world stage. Campy but deadpan, they're arguably part of the boy band revival, however fringe, due to their European contemporaries One Direction as well as the Wanted. Their flaw-free dance moves also tap into the availability of shows like So You Imagine You Can Dance and also the resurfacing of the 90s Vogue-ball aesthetic in New York's underground night life. (The team maintains they are doing almost all their own choreography.)

The music activity, thumping electro clash with blunt phrases like Love me/Hate me/I dont care, is the sort of fluff you will probably find around the Eurovision song contest. As well as in an era through which Pixie Lott gabs on about subverting gender and sexuality norms, these fellows strut the strut.

Kazakys widest experience of date, perhaps, was whenever they were put to use by Madonna, noted for cultivating emerging dance talent, being her backup dancers on her Girl Gone Wild video, that have its debut in March. The clips stylist, the Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips, was required to create custom women's high heel sandals hacked down from hooker boots, as Ms. Phillips called them, for each and every member of this guitar rock band because she was not able to find shoes in their sizes through the deadline.

Kazaky is sustainability will likely be tested using the launch of their still-untitled first album, tentatively planned for before fall, and a audio 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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