A major coup for Cape Town
A triple bill of timeless dance works
ARTSCAPE 22 June – 7 July 2019
Serenade
Opening her first season as the new CEO of the Cape Town City Ballet, Debbie Turner has pulled off a major coup: the rights to George Balanchine’s Serenade, his first original ballet in the USA. Set to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. with four movements; Sonatina, Waltz, Russian Dance and Elegy. Select performances accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.
A major coup for Cape Town
A triple bill of timeless dance works
ARTSCAPE 22 June – 7 July 2019
Serenade
Opening her first season as the new CEO of the Cape Town City Ballet, Debbie Turner has pulled off a major coup: the rights to George Balanchine’s Serenade, his first original ballet in the USA. Set to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. with four movements; Sonatina, Waltz, Russian Dance and Elegy. Select performances accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.
Enemy Behind the Gates
Christopher L. Huggins is back in South Africa to restage his award-winning ballet Enemy Behind the Gates (2001). This spectacular athletic fusion of contemporary ballet and modern movement is clean and fast-moving, an exciting, confrontational work created in a militaristic and percussive style – a fitting finale to this triple bill of exciting and diverse works.
Transfigured Night
In rehearsal: Dancers work on Frank Staff’s Transfigured Night (1957). Set to a sweeping score by Schoenberg, it honours our South African heritage. Based on a true story of siblings dominated by an older sister, it’s a dramatic love story with intimate duets, a hallmark of Staff’s choreography.
Select performances accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 22 June at 19h30 (Opening), Sunday 23 June at 15h00, Saturday 29 June at 19h30, Friday 5 July at 19h30, Saturday 6 July at 19h30, and Sunday 7 July at 15h00.
A triple bill of timeless dance works
“Please join us for our 2019 Autumn / Winter season; a celebration of classical ballet and modern classics.” Debbie Turner, CEO Cape Town City Ballet
ARTSCAPE 22 June – 7 July 2019
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