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...

Ballet Review: The Sleeping Beauty – Awake To Detail, Or Fairy Dinkum

Mar 31, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty / Production and staging by Maina Gielgud / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   The ongoing presence of the Johannesburg...

Ballet Review: Joburg Ballet – Cinderella: Compact Classic, Or A Fairytale Focused

Dec 15, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: Cinderella / Artistic Director: Iain MacDonald / The Teatro at Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   Joburg Ballet, to live up to its company name, needs to reach...

Dance Review: Joburg Ballet – Fire And Ice, Or Hungarian Meets Herculean

Jun 30, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Joburg Ballet: Fire And Ice / Artistic Director: Iain Macdonald / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg          6.5   The further development of Joburg Ballet as a...

Dance Review: Romeo & Juliet – More Is More, Or Of Energy, Colour And Dead Teenagers

Aug 1, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Romeo & Juliet / Joburg Ballet / Artistic Director Iain Macdonald / Joburg Theatre   Joburg Ballet’s newly adopted strategy of having more productions in a year, each running for shorter periods, is bearing fruit. With Giselle...