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Cape Town City Ballet’s July season features brand new ballets and a classic favourite

Cape Town City Ballet’s July season features brand new ballets and a classic favourite

| June 17, 2014 | 0 Comments

As their 80th anniversary celebrations continue, Cape Town City Ballet are rehearsing for their July ballet season, which includes a mix of classical, neo-classical and contemporary works in a programme called Ballet Beautiful – on at the Artscape Theatre from 4 to 12 July 2014. The programme looks set to show off the company’s versatility […]

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Best of wine, art and Bovim Ballet at Hermanus FynArts festival

Best of wine, art and Bovim Ballet at Hermanus FynArts festival

| May 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

The Hermanus FynArts festival is no staid or upper-crust affair, in fact, with its focus on arts, music and wine in one of the Cape’s most gorgeous landscapes, it looks set to be a rocking little festival. No surprise then that it attracted South Africa’s rock ballet company, Bovim Ballet, to present a programme of […]

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Masterpieces of French music meets Russian ballet in Pretoria

Masterpieces of French music meets Russian ballet in Pretoria

| May 22, 2014 | 0 Comments

The Crown of the Russian Ballet company has toured the world, including the UK, USA, Japan and China, and is now preparing to perform in Pretoria at the State Theatre from 23 to 25 May 2014 with a programme entitled Masterpieces of French Music in Ballet. Considering that the ballet company was founded (back in […]

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Boys and girls, you’re invited to audition at Joburg Ballet

Boys and girls, you’re invited to audition at Joburg Ballet

| May 16, 2014 | 0 Comments

Joburg Ballet will be holding auditions on Saturday 24 May 2014 and boys and girls aged 6 to 12 are invited to audition for The Nutcracker and boys for La Bayadere. Both productions take place in September 2014. Dance schools are encouraged to audition as a group. Here are the details: Date: Saturday 24 May […]

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New York City Ballet principals and other American ballet stars head for South Africa

New York City Ballet principals and other American ballet stars head for South Africa

| May 16, 2014 | 0 Comments

For the first time in over thirty years – which essentially translates to “for the first time ever” for our younger ballet enthusiasts – a group of American ballet dancers are travelling to South Africa to perform in a limited season of The Stars of American Ballet, a production featuring acclaimed dancers from New York […]

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Queen at the Ballet releases new Barcelona music video to launch Joburg season

Queen at the Ballet releases new Barcelona music video to launch Joburg season

| March 28, 2014 | 0 Comments

“This isn’t your regular, conventional ballet,” says Collett Dawson, associate producer of Queen at the Ballet, as it was announced recently that the show’s top vocalists, Cito and Angela Kilian, have recorded Freddie Mercury’s big showstopper, Barcelona, as a music video and audio recording. Originally made famous by Queen’s lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, and operatic soprano, […]

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Open doors at Cape Town City Ballet’s Open Day

Open doors at Cape Town City Ballet’s Open Day

| March 28, 2014 | 0 Comments

Cape Town City Ballet’s annual Open Day takes place this Saturday 29 March 2014 with a full day of activities offering a peek behind the curtains and into the real workings of a professional ballet company. The event, hosted at the UCT School of Dance in Rosebank, is presented by the Cape Town City Ballet […]

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Queen at the Ballet brings rock ballet en pointe to Joburg

Queen at the Ballet brings rock ballet en pointe to Joburg

| March 9, 2014 | 2 Comments

Critics have called it “a remarkable production” and “a rocking good show”, and now Bovim Ballet brings their long awaited Queen at the Ballet to the Joburg Theatre in Johannesburg from 26 March to 13 April 2014. Exploring the story of music legend, Freddie Mercury, the audience is led through the life of the great […]

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Cape Town City Ballet prepares for 80th anniversary production of Swan Lake

Cape Town City Ballet prepares for 80th anniversary production of Swan Lake

| March 6, 2014 | 0 Comments

Following an already busy start to their 80th anniversary year, starting with the popular modern ballet Night & Day at Artscape, then the outdoor performances of The Firebird and Les Sylphides at Maynardville, now Cape Town City Ballet prepares for one of the greatest classical ballets of all time, Swan Lake, to be performed at […]

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See Cuban gold and silver medallists in Joburg Ballet’s Coppélia

See Cuban gold and silver medallists in Joburg Ballet’s Coppélia

| March 5, 2014 | 0 Comments

Bringing the top prize back to Johannesburg, senior gold medal winner from the recent South African International Ballet Competition, Ramiro Samón, rejoins the Joburg Ballet cast along with fellow Cuban and silver medallist, Javier Monier, as the company prepares for its production of Coppélia, opening at Joburg Theatre on 7 March 2014. Both competition medallists […]

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