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THEATRE
Tango
Nights
Venue: Baxter Theatre, Main Rd,
Rondebosch. Tel: (021) 680 3989
Time: 8:00pm
Price: R120 - R135
Performances: 3 - 6 Jun 2009
Genre: Tango
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Bovim Ballet is bringing their alluring full-length dance
sensation Tango Nights to the Baxter Theatre for a short season before
continuing with their national tour. The show combines the sensuality of
tango with the athleticism of rock ballet en-pointe in a high impact
production that has thus far received standing ovations in Durban and Port
Elizabeth following on the company’s launch season at the Artscape Theatre
in Cape Town in February 2009.
Bovim Ballet is under the Artistic Directorship of its founder, the
award-winning choreographer Sean Bovim. The production has been
beautifully costumed by the acclaimed international designers Malcolm Klûk
and Christiaan Gabriel du Toit, with lighting by Daniel Galloway and the
set design by Karl Staub, resulting in a production that is a veritable
feast for the eyes. The music for Tango Nights includes the powerful
‘Roxanne’ from the film Moulin Rouge and Gotan Project. Adding the twists
and turns in the story and enticing the audience all the way to the show’s
ultimate dramatic conclusion, are dancers Darren Greef, Grant Swift, Devon
Marshbank, Ignatius Van Heerden, James Bradley, Shaun Brian Murphy,
Kirsten Isenberg, Jennnifer Middleton, Faye Dubinski, Taryn Makaab, Nicola
Marais, Alexandra Potgieter and Tracey Aaron. They are superbly lead by
principal dancers Kerryn Howard, Andre Sauer, Tanya Futter and Marc
Golderg, who take the audience on a dazzling journey to Café Tango,
weaving a love story through tantalising and sensuous dance sequences.
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Bovim is known for repeatedly pushing choreographic
boundaries and uses classical ballet because of its physicality,
musicality and creativity and to show off extraordinary technique combined
with a fusion of styles that has become his own vocabulary. For him,
ballet is not only about the great classics such as Swan Lake and Sleeping
Beauty, but deserves to be given the space to evolve just like
architecture, art and the culture that surrounds us. Over the past 15
years his work has been seen all over South Africa and as far afield as
the USA, Russia, Denmark, Spain, the Edinburgh Festival and Ireland, where
Queen at the Ballet played to more than 30,000 people with standing
ovations at every performance at the Point Theatre in Dublin. Bovim won
the Dance Indaba Fringe Award for Choreography in 1995, the National
Choreographic Competition in 1999 and SwingTime won a Naledi in 2005.
Tango Nights runs nightly for a limited season only from Wednesday 3 June
to Saturday 6 June at 20h00 at The Baxter Theatre. Tickets cost R120 to
R135 through Computicket with special discounts for pensioners, students
and block bookings of ten or more. This is Cape Town’s last opportunity to
see this dynamic production before it premieres at the Sand du Plessis
Theatre in Bloemfontein (10 – 13 June), and at the Lyric Theatre at Gold
Reef City in Johannesburg (17 – 21 June). Advance booking is recommended.
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