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The Arts
Mpumi Dhlamini for Diamond City Jazz Festival
We talk to award-winning music producer Mpumi Dhlamini ahead of the Diamond City Jazz Festival about being an industry outlier and how a hyper-competitive spirit drives success
Dancing to the beat of their own drum
When you crave a natural high, few things can beat traditional kizomba – the celebration dance out of Angola that has captivated music and dance...
Spark and revel in the flame of opera passion
Spark and revel in the flame of opera passion 30 years of Operalia: Plácido Domingo honours rising opera stars on the global stage By Debbie...
Love is on the air at OurSalsaSoulRadio
Love is on the air at OurSalsaSoulRadio (OSSR)... I borrowed this headline from their social media post, because it’s Valentine’s Day on Sunday....
More than words
The art of handwriting creates a bond between writer and reader. The choice of writing instrument is part of the journey. Published in Private...
King Kong: a remarkable history of SA’s most famous stage play
After almost 60 years, the production of King Kong returns to SA stages
Photography: depth of field
Published in Financial Mail 16 March 2017 Photographer Roger Ballen talks about his foundation’s gift to the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa...
BOOKS: The Calloways are back
Published in Financial Mail 02 February 2017 Bright, Precious Days - Russell and Corrine stay with him, says McInerney of third book in the series....
Heart for art and service
Published in Financial Mail 19 January 2017 SA-born author Richard Mason says writing calls for more than disciplined effort. The novel Who Killed...
Athletic articulation of the foot
Published in Cape Times on 15 November 2016 Acclaimed South African dancer/choreographer Andrea Schermoly returns from abroad to create new work for...
I Believe I Can Fly
“...If I can see it, then I can do it/ If I just believe it, there's nothing to it...” The words of R. Kelly’s beautiful hit song, I Believe I Can...
Wilbur Smith’s wild ride
Published in Financial Mail on 29 September 2016 He battled cerebral malaria as an 18-month-old and beat the medical prognosis of certain brain...
KHOSA FAN TUTTE
Published in PRIVATE TIME 2016 Every second year, Rolex sponsors a Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative across the fields of dance, architecture,...
Mixed reactions to ambitious production of The Firebird
The Firebird. Director Janni Younge, choreographer Jay Pather, repetiteur Fiona du Plooy. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Presented by Janni Younge...
Pay Back the Curry!
Published in Financial Mail on 12 August 2016 The piece currently requires Richards to play 24 characters in a commentary on what is happening in SA...
Athol Fugard is back
Review of Athol Fugard’s latest play, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, which premiered in New York last year and opens in Cape Town on August 23.
Theatre: I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Published in Financial Mail on 15 July 2016 Since the 1996 New York City premiere of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, former advertising...
‘A Thousand Shepherds’ dance review
Published in Cape Times, 28 March 2016 AT about the same time that Debbie Turner formed what is arguably South Africa’s most formidable company in...
Singin’ in the Rain
Published in Cape Times, 30 November 2015 FEEL-GOOD: Mila de Biaggi is captured in rehearsal as the Broadway Melody Girl (the role played by Cyd...
American Dance Theater: Universal message
Published in Financial Mail, 13 August 2015: SINCE Robert Battle took up the reins at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as artistic director in...
Ballet: Mixing it up
DADA Masilo, Robyn Orlin, Boyzie Cekwana, Gregory Maqoma … the names of the “most famous” SA choreographers roll easily off the tongue of Philippe Cohen, artistic director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève Ballet Company (Geneva Ballet).
In a rare break from his own tradition, Cohen has invited some of them to choreograph work for the 19-member ballet company as well as 12 local professional dancers preceding the visitors’ tour of Roméo & Juliette to the Mandela Joburg Theatre, from June 17 to June 21.
It’s a coup for the chosen few. Maqoma, assisted by Luyanda Sidiya, PJ Sabaggha and Fana Tshabalala, all based in Johannesburg, and Mamela Nyamza, from Cape Town, will join Geneva Ballet’s Nathanaël Marie, from Cannes, France, to make new work for the dancers this week in groups to be determined by Cohen himself.
Romeo in the Ruck
He maintained a firm hold on the number-seven jersey in first-team school rugby, but Ivan Boonzaaier can catch a ballerina as confidently as he can secure a ball and aim to score.