Employment creation: a mission possible
Over the past 20 years, Vuyani Dance Theatre has endeavoured to afford young people from diverse backgrounds an opportunity to excel in dance while developing a new generation of dancers,
Joburg Ballet returns to The Teatro at Montecasino with Snow White The Ballet
After a triumphant debut season at The Teatro, Montecasino in December, Joburg Ballet returns to the popular venue with its sparkling production of Snow White – The Ballet from Thursday
International Flemish dance landscape showcases in Johannesburg and Cape Town
Flanders is home to a prolific, creative and radical contemporary dance scene with choreographers and dancers alike questioning and breaking through the traditional and institutionalised dance norms of the (Western)
Brett Bailey’s Samson
Third World Bunfight’s newest production, Samson, is a sensuous, poetic and thought-provoking dance-music-theatre piece set in a dystopian contemporary context of political extremism, inequality, human displacement and violence. Creative Feel
French stars jet in for Joburg Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
International guest artists Anaïs Chalendard and Florimond Lorieux will dance the leading roles in three performances of Joburg Ballet’s new staging of The Sleeping Beauty at Joburg Theatre during the
Dance Umbrella Africa 2019 Headlining Acts
The eagerly anticipated re-launch of Dance Umbrella Africa 2019 from 31 March to 7 April at the South African State Theatre, #DUA2019 will feature South Africa and the world’s most
Going back to go forward
2019 marks 20 years of Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT), which will be celebrated through the campaign #Vuyani20. VDT is the only full-time, black-founded dance and theatre institution and company to
Killer Chicago SA cast returns from world tour to razzle-dazzle SA again!
A nightclub singer, a double-murderess, a smooth-talking lawyer and a cell block of sin surrounded by the razzle-dazzle of the world’s sexiest musical soon returns to the stage in Cape
Figure-ring the state of dance in Africa
The South African State Theatre is proud to announce that the newly revived and revamped Dance Umbrella Africa (DUA) will launch under the theme Figure-ring – The State of Dance in
Introducing talent to the creative economy
As part of its social missions, Vuyani Dance Theatre works within communities to develop dance talent, both at a school level and by training post-matric youth through its sought-after year-long
New Year, New You – Time to tune up your groove
It’s the New Year and with it, comes new thinking, new promises and a renewed commitment to getting into shape. However, while New Year resolutions burn brightly at the beginning
Aunty Merle comes to Joburg
Popular comedian Marc Lottering’s most beloved alter ego, Aunty Merle Abrahams, sashays onto the stage for the first time in Johannesburg with Aunty Merle, The Musical from 1 February to
Cry the Beloved Eldos
In the wake of service delivery protests in coloured dominated communities where residents are calling on the government for better services and for a speedy drug intervention programme, Roseline Wilkens’
Making a difference through dance
2018 marks 40 years since Moving into Dance (MID) was founded in Sylvia ‘Magogo’ Glasser’s garage as a way to provide dance training to youth in underprivileged communities and equip
Our lives, our stories
‘My heart is aware, my soul is accepting, my spirit is willing, my being is ready and God is in control, yet I find myself in a constant tug of
Stories from the Karoo in this month’s Heritage Programme
Coenie de Villiers and renowned author Deon Meyer return with their box office hit Karoo Suite, a musical ode to the Karoo. Musical direction: Jaconell Mouton. Guitars: Mauritz Lotz. Percussion:
JYB’s The Selfish Giant at the Joburg Theatre
The Johannesburg Youth Ballet will present The Selfish Giant from 24 to 26 August 2018 at The Fringe, Joburg Theatre. Oscar Wilde’s charming morality tale of the Selfish Giant, who
National School of the Arts: Dance Spectrum
The National School of the Arts stages their annual flagship production, Dance Spectrum this week on The Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre. A double bill and a trio