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Dance Review: Private Presley – Memphis Flash, Or Rock And Roles

Dance Review: Private Presley – Memphis Flash, Or Rock And Roles

Oct 26, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Mzansi Ballet: Sean Bovim’s Private Presley Ballet / Choreographed by Sean Bovim / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Sean Bovim’s original production of Private Presley (then called Private Presley: A...
Dance Interview: Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe – Liling, Or Weaving Culture’s Cloth

Dance Interview: Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe – Liling, Or Weaving Culture’s Cloth

Aug 15, 2022 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL Showcasing the dancers from the National School of the Arts, Dance Spectrum “Epiphany” plays at the Lesedi Theatre from 19 – 21 August. The work includes neo-classical ballet, contemporary, Afro-Fusion and Spanish and sees the versatility of...
Author Interview: Nancy Paris – Speaking Fluent Ballet, Or Running Around Lilly Nilly

Author Interview: Nancy Paris – Speaking Fluent Ballet, Or Running Around Lilly Nilly

Apr 30, 2022 | ARTicle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL When, and under what circumstances, did the idea for your latest book come to you? Pardon My French – It’s The Language Of Ballet is my first book and the lead story for the series The...
Music Interview: Paula Abdul – Straight Up Revived, Or Dancing To A New Beat

Music Interview: Paula Abdul – Straight Up Revived, Or Dancing To A New Beat

Jan 4, 2019 | ARTicle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By ALLISON KUGEL   On October 3 2018, Paula Abdul hit the road on her North American tour; a tour that’s been more than 25 years in the making, since her 1992 Under My Spell tour which grossed $60...
Dance Review: Workers’  Chant – Heartbreak Of History, Or Muddled By Movement

Dance Review: Workers’ Chant – Heartbreak Of History, Or Muddled By Movement

Feb 25, 2017 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Workers’ Chant / Choreographed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu / Workers’ Museum, Newtown, Johannesburg   A work examining, through dance, the harshness of the lives of the migrant workers who worked – under terrible conditions – in the mines and...

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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).
Find his music on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and wherever else you stream and download music.