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Cape Ballet Africa ignites The Baxter stage with its inaugural season celebrating new work by a trio of revered South African choreographers.
SALT presents a triple bill of ballets by Kirsten Isenberg, as well as award-winning choreographers Mthuthuzeli November and Michelle Reid. The programme prioritises the commissioning and creation of new South African choreographic works.
The performances are evocative, polished, stylish, celebratory, and rhythmic. Audiences can expect powerful, athletic pointe work, gravity-defying pas de deux, and beautifully expressive movements depicting textured poetry within a richly interwoven movement vocabulary. The music ranges from dreamy Rachmaninov to 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' by The Temptations.
This classical work explores the experience of being lost in one's thoughts after facing adversity and the journey from light to dark and back again, sometimes with support and sometimes alone.
Cape Ballet Africa celebrates cultural values imbued through dance, instilling the discipline of classical ballet while blending in the exciting heritage of South African culture. The Company seeks to reimagine how ballet can look in Africa, using the interplay of identity and culture, the diversity in all elements of the artform; the people and the repertory.
As a brand new company, Cape Ballet Africa aims to produce performances that are bold and strongly rooted in the classical ballet technique, with exceptional quality front-and-centre as an inherent part of the artistic identity. It is founded in discipline and self-expression, individuality in teamwork, with a distinctive elegance, refinement and audacious grace.
