Joburg Ballet returns to Hermanus

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

The Joburg Ballet Company will be returning to Hermanus for the fourth year running to present three performances in aid of Just Care Aftercare. This much-anticipated event will take place during the school holidays, with the Gala evening performance on Friday 27 March, followed by two performances on Saturday 28 March – a matinee at 15:00 and an evening performance at 19:30.

This year’s programme will include highlights from various well-known and much-loved classical works such as La Bayadère, Swan Lake, and the spectacular Walpurgisnacht pas de deux. There will also be some entertaining jazzy numbers and a selection of dances from the company’s latest production of Don Quixote, which they’ll be performing at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town.

Joburg Ballet is a professional ballet company headquartered in the Johannesburg Theatre complex, where they have two specially-designed ballet studios and employ full-time professional dancers and staff. The company came into existence (originally as the ‘South African Ballet Theatre’) in 2001 under the direction of six ex-dancers from PACT (Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal), which had been disbanded the year before.

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