*Photo Credits : Lauge Sorensen
The ballet year opens at the Joburg Theatre on Friday 17 March with Dialogues, a triple bill of ballets new to the company’s mainstream repertoire.
Following the success of her Table for Two for Joburg Ballet’s RAW programme for new choreographers in 2021, Joburg Ballet dancer Chloé Blair has been invited to expand the piece for the first season of 2023.
Roseline Keppler of Vuyani Dance Theatre will create a new work – her first for Joburg Ballet – entitled Identity while in a first for South Africa, company dancer Bruno Miranda will stage the Grand Pas from the 1896 ballet, Bluebeard. It provides a glittering showcase for dancing in ballet’s finest classical tradition.
For the rest of 2023 Joburg Ballet will present a bumper line-up including three full-length ballets:
- On Friday 30 June Joburg Ballet’s admired production of Romeo and Juliet will return to the Joburg Theatre stage for the first time in seven years. Dancers from Vuyani Dance Theatre will join forces with Joburg Ballet for the season, giving the crowd scenes the numbers needed to make an appropriately powerful impact in this immortal love story.
- In July, Joburg Ballet will visit Cape Town to perform SA choreographer Veronica Paeper’s La Traviata-The Ballet at the Baxter Theatre. Joburg Ballet presented an acclaimed season of the ballet in Johannesburg in 2022 and the visit to the Baxter Theatre will allow Cape Town audiences to see the full Joburg Ballet company for the first time.
- Joburg Ballet’s fourth season for 2023 will feature the full-length Don Quixote at the Joburg Theatre from Friday 29 October. In presenting Joburg Ballet’s sizzling production of this comedy ballet classic this year, the company will be bringing back to the stage the ballet that had to be cancelled after just four performances in 2020 due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 2023 Joburg Ballet season’s at a glance:
Dialogues (Joburg Theatre): Friday 17 March – Sunday 26 March
Romeo and Juliet (Joburg Theatre): Friday 30 June – Sunday 9 July
La Traviata-The Ballet (Baxter Theatre, Cape Town): Wednesday 26 July – Saturday 29 July
Don Quixote (Joburg Theatre): Friday 29 September – Sunday 8 October
Dialogues: Booking Information
Dates and Times:Friday 17 March at 18h30 (Standard Prices)
Saturday 18 March at 15h00 (Standard Prices)
Sunday 19 March at 15h00 (Standard Prices)
Wednesday 22 March at 11h00 (Morning Price)
Friday 24 March at 18h30 (Standard Prices)
Saturday 25 March at 15h00 (Standard Prices)
Saturday 26 March at 18h30 (Standard Prices)
Sunday 26 March at 15h00 (Standard Prices)
Standard Ticket Prices: R475, R410, R375, R275, R200 (applicable to all performances except Wednesday 22 March for which all tickets are R100)
Discounts: Friends of the Ballet 35%; Pensioners 15%; Groups of 10+ 10%; Children 4-7 50%
Where: Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein (GPS -26.191316, 28.038519)
Book: At Joburg Theatre Box Office or tel 0861 670 670 or online at www.joburgtheatre.com
Patrons can also book and pay via the Nedbank app and at selected Pick n Pay stores (full list at www.webtickets.co.za/pnpoutlets.aspx)
