Tag: The Nutcracker

Last chance to see The Nutcracker with a South African koeksister twist

Last chance to see The Nutcracker with a South African koeksister twist

| September 26, 2014 | 0 Comments

It’s the Nutcracker, but re-told in an African way and re-styled with a local-is-lekker flair. While still set to the beautiful effervescent music of Tchaikovsky, Joburg Ballet’s all new The Nutcracker Re-Imagined switches the usual snowy northern Christmas scenes for such sunny African settings as the Kalahari, complete with gumboots and Namaqua daisies. Running as […]

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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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Joburg Ballet’s 2014 schedule revealed – Kicking off with Coppélia and Celebration 6

Joburg Ballet’s 2014 schedule revealed – Kicking off with Coppélia and Celebration 6

| February 3, 2014 | 2 Comments

It’s an endearing, heart-warming comedy, considered one of the great classical ballets much-loved the world over, and now Coppélia returns to the Joburg Theatre from 7 to 23 March 2014 to raise the curtain on Joburg Ballet’s opening season of 2014, and spring-load a busy year of travels and performances. With the aim of expanding […]

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Title of Prima Ballerina awarded to Joburg Ballet’s Burnise Silvius – and what the title really means

Title of Prima Ballerina awarded to Joburg Ballet’s Burnise Silvius – and what the title really means

| November 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

While the term ‘prima ballerina’ refers to the ‘first’ ballerina of a company, it doesn’t go to say that every ballet company has one – usually the highest rank in a company is principal dancer, or at most, senior principal dancer. In fact, to be officially awarded the title of prima ballerina is a rare […]

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Cuban ballet star based in Mexico cast in Joburg Ballet’s Nutcracker

Cuban ballet star based in Mexico cast in Joburg Ballet’s Nutcracker

| November 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

The Cuban-born Jonhal Fernández is set to visit South Africa this November when he takes the lead role as the Nutcracker Prince in Joburg Ballet’s Nutcracker, which will be at the South African State Theatre, Pretoria, from 22 November to 1 December 2013. Having graduated from Havana’s National Ballet School in 2010, he performed as […]

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Joburg Ballet revives a great Pretoria tradition with The Nutcracker

Joburg Ballet revives a great Pretoria tradition with The Nutcracker

| October 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

We’re told that year after year, from the 1980s until the turn of the century, the hugely popular Christmas classic The Nutcracker was always a firm feature on Pretoria’s festive season calendar. That all changed after the closure of The State Theatre Ballet in 2000, and even the subsequent South African Ballet Theatre moved from […]

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Challenges, comedy and ballet magic – Behind-the-scenes with Cinderella choreographer Iain MacDonald

Challenges, comedy and ballet magic – Behind-the-scenes with Cinderella choreographer Iain MacDonald

| October 4, 2013 | 0 Comments

What does it take to create a brand new ballet? Robynn Burls visited Joburg Ballet to meet the real fairy godmother godfather working behind the scenes in the company’s recent season of Cinderella. This is what she discovered about the man behind the magic… I extended my hand out as I walked up to meet […]

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