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Ballet Review: Maina Gielgud’s Giselle – Raising The Shades, Or High Corps Values

Ballet Review: Maina Gielgud’s Giselle – Raising The Shades, Or High Corps Values

Apr 3, 2022 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Cape Town City Ballet: Maina Gielgud’s Giselle / Artistic Director: Debbie Turner / Opera House, Artscape, Cape Town   Overlapping with the Oscars palaver in which one person did...
Ballet Review: Joburg Ballet – Giselle: Princely Persuasion, Or Misogynists Get The Wilis

Ballet Review: Joburg Ballet – Giselle: Princely Persuasion, Or Misogynists Get The Wilis

Oct 8, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: Giselle / Artistic Director: Iain Macdonald / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   There are plenty of dark moments in famous narratives of the...
Dance Review: Cinderella – From Ashes To Duty, Or Ugly Sisters Of Mercy

Dance Review: Cinderella – From Ashes To Duty, Or Ugly Sisters Of Mercy

Oct 2, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet’s Cinderella / Artistic direction by Iain MacDonald / Joburg Theatre   Joburg Ballet has had a very busy – and successful – year, bouncing back from a difficult political situation, adding an extra season to their schedule...
Dance Review: Giselle – Dead Can Dance, Or Giving Everyone The Wilis

Dance Review: Giselle – Dead Can Dance, Or Giving Everyone The Wilis

Apr 23, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Giselle / Joburg Ballet, principals Shannon Glover and Juan Carlos Osma / Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg    There’s that point at which you realise as a teen or even a middle-aged reader that the fairytales you read as a kid...
Theatre Review: J’Zel: A Re-Imagining – Strutted Style, Or A Classic Unconstrained

Theatre Review: J’Zel: A Re-Imagining – Strutted Style, Or A Classic Unconstrained

Jun 30, 2015 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   J’Zel: A Re-Imagining / Choreographed by Ignatius Van Heerden and Weslee Swain Lauder / NSA Downstairs Theatre / Johannesburg   Giselle, the ballet, has a pretty left-field plot to begin with, what with t­­­he spirits of dead girls forcing...

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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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