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...
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...
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...
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: Romeo And Juliet / Choreography by Nicolas Beriosoff / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg For a company going through a great deal of transition, an ageless story feels like it brings a measure...
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: La Traviata – The Ballet / Choreographed by Veronica Paeper / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg La Traviata – the ballet version of the original Verdi opera – features, as one of the less well-known major...
