[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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...