CAPE BALLET AFRICA’s debut performances at the Artscape Opera House celebrate the Company’s first birthday. A triple bill of works featuring two choreographies by international creators, alongside a further development of Kirsten Isenberg’s highly-acclaimed dreamlike meditation, Reverie. Set to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2, fast becoming a signature work of the company. The creation will […]
SALT features a triple bill of ballets by Kirsten Isenberg, multi award-winning choreographer Mthuthuzeli November and Michelle Reid. SALT resonates on many levels in our daily existence. It flavours, purifies, heals, and preserves. Salt has significance in ancient rituals, warding off evil, keeping us safe and inspiring us to a higher spiritual realm. These three […]
Giselle is an innocent and beautiful peasant girl who loves to dance, and unsuspectingly falls in love with a philandering nobleman, Albrecht. When he deceives her, she is inconsolable and dies of a broken heart. The story continues in the moonlit land of the Wilies, a mysterious landscape inhabited by the vengeful spirits of virgin […]
