Sentence examples for troupe from inspiring English sources

Not long after he arrived in Arias's New York, Hegarty formed the Blacklips Performance Cult, a drag theatre troupe with whom he put on weekly shows at Mother, a club in the Meatpacking District frequented by drag punks and "gender mutants".

When the acrobatics troupe botched an attempt at a complicated human pyramid, they laughed themselves hoarse.

There's a rhythm to this physical comedy, it's almost like a dance troupe, and you have to get it spot-on – everyone, say, putting their hats on at exactly the same time – and these are tricks and skills, which I at least have had to learn".

The US troupe came to Cuba at the invitation of 89-year-old Alicia Alonso, who danced with the ABT in the 1940s and 50s before returning to her homeland to found Cuba's National Ballet.

For its astonishing debut season, the troupe fielded a full 85 dancers who presented three classical revivals, with 15 ballets by 11 living choreographers including Mikhail Fokine (from the Ballets Russes), Antony Tudor (from Britain's Ballet Rambert) and American Agnes de Mille.

Perry took time to recognize each member of traveling troupe of veterans – even the singing opening act was a former Seal named Pete Scobell, of whom Perry joked: "If any of you have watched [the Tom Hanks film] about Captain Phillips in Somalia, he was a little involved at that, let's just leave at that".

The show, won by the Hungarian shadow-dance troupe Attraction, was watched by a peak audience of 13.1 million, with an average of 11.1 million viewers across the two and a half hour programme, the broadcaster said.

My parents, who moved away from the conservative Midwest in favour of more liberal-minded California, set up an outdoor theatre troupe in the 70s and made friends with other free-thinking individuals, determined to raise their children differently from the way their parents had raised them.

The day's surreal highlight was an act by an acrobatics troupe, which did flik flaks down the red carpet towards the VIPs, causing a momentary fracas among the president's security detail.

Between 9am and 6pm I saw a dance troupe doing a ballet based on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a show about a man trying to track down John Noakes, and a young, camp, Irish comic with a tea towel around his head impersonating Mother Teresa.

Back in the dressing room Hegarty tells me that it's a far cry from his youth in Manhattan in the 1990s, studying experimental theatre at NYU and staging underground cabaret nights with his troupe Blacklips (their act variously involved throwing offal, and flailing around in piles of "Aids corpses").