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Ballet Review: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Rich Sweetness Or Candy Can-Do

Ballet Review: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Rich Sweetness Or Candy Can-Do

Oct 7, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Charlie And The Chocolate Factory / Choreography by Mario Gaglione / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   The arrival of a new, original full-length ballet is a huge deal in any context. The sheer amount of work...
Ballet Review: Mzansi Ballet – The Neil Diamond Show, Or Multi-Faceted Movement

Ballet Review: Mzansi Ballet – The Neil Diamond Show, Or Multi-Faceted Movement

Aug 9, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Mzansi Ballet: The Neil Diamond Show / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Neil Diamond remains a somewhat polarising musical figure – undeniably influential and important, and with sales to support his...
Ballet Review: The Sleeping Beauty – Believing In Fairies, Or Swung By A Spindle

Ballet Review: The Sleeping Beauty – Believing In Fairies, Or Swung By A Spindle

Jul 8, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty / Staged by Sophie Sarrote / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   The Sleeping Beauty story is nearly 700 years old and has been the source material and basis for scores of...
Ballet Review: The Nutcracker – Sweet Dream, Or Soldier Of Good Fortune

Ballet Review: The Nutcracker – Sweet Dream, Or Soldier Of Good Fortune

Dec 7, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: The Nutcracker / Choreographed and produced by Angela Malan / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   The Nutcracker can be a mildly polarising ballet in that it’s likely the classical piece that audiences have...
Ballet Review: Joburg Ballet’s Don Quixote – Powerful Partnership, Or Orchestrated Enjoyment

Ballet Review: Joburg Ballet’s Don Quixote – Powerful Partnership, Or Orchestrated Enjoyment

Oct 18, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: Don Quixote / Staged by Angela Malan / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   All classical ballets involve stories within stories, and Don Quixote features, among others, the interwoven tales of...
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Bruce Dennill is a BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Writing Awards Silvear Award winner (Opinion and Features), a South African Music Awards judge and a recording artist. His first play, the pocket musical Actress,for which he wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the script, was the recipient of a Broadway World South Africa Award for Best New Play Or Musical and a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical (Talia Kodesh).
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