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THEATRE
Bovim
Ballet's Swing Time
Venue: Baxter Theatre, Main Rd,
Rondebosch. Tel: (021) 680 3989
Time: Tue - Sat @ 8:00pm, Sun @ 6:00pm
Price: R120 - R150
Performances: 7 - 18 Oct 2009
Genre: Ballet
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The perfect marriage between Broadway and Ballet, Swing Time
is a high impact production and a visual feast that will entertain
audiences of all ages.
Having recently returned from their very successful
inaugural national tour of Sean Bovim's Tango Nights, Ballet Fans will be
thrilled to hear that Bovim Ballet's next project will be the ever-popular
SwingTime, originally created by Bovim in 2003.
Bovim will be updating the original
production, adding new numbers to the work, and tweaking some of the
existing numbers. This will be the first time that the audience can look
forward to seeing SwingTime danced by Bovim Ballet, enhanced by a
completely new set and dazzling costumes by Klûk and CGDT.
An exciting addition to the cast is
accomplished vocalist, Francois Lliam (Blue eyes to Buble, Jesus Chris
Superstar, We Will Rock You) who will delight audiences with his velvety
vocals, singing popular tunes including Miss Jones, Fever, Mr Bojangles,
Mack the Knife and others, while enjoying the visual artistry of the
dancers’ romantic interpretations of these unforgettable classical hits.
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SwingTime takes the audience on a
nostalgic journey of the Big Band Era. The story centres around Bojangles,
the owner of the Swing Club where it all happened. Bojangles' journey
takes the audience back in time where romance was the order of the day,
and dancing was a way of life for the young and young-at-heart. The
audience will accompany Bojangles on his trip down memory lane, where he
remembers his past loves and the shenanigans during his time at The Swing
Club. The role of Bojangles will be performed by Grant Swift.
The audience can expect Bovim's
technically demanding choreography, while at the same time being thrilled
by beautifully created costumes, a fantastic collection of songs, and
Bovim's talented troupe of dancers.
The audience can look forward to enjoying
the inspiring local talent of Kerryn Howard, Tanya Futter, Kirsten
Isenberg, Faye Dubinski, Simone Muller, Jennifer Middleton, Kristin Wilson
and Nicola Marais. Male dancers include Grant Swift, Marc Goldberg, Shaun
Brian Murphy, Ignatius Van Heerden, Devon Marshbank, James Bradley, Kyle
Rossouw and Owen Manamela.
Bovim states, "The show fuses the
jazzy rhythms of 1930's Broadway with the quick step demands of ballet en-pointe".
I am excited to be working with this high calibre of dancers that have
joined Bovim Ballet."
Over the past 15 years Bovim’s 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.
Sean won the Dance Indaba Fringe Award
for Choreography in 1995, the National Choreographic Competition in 1999
and his production SwingTime won a Naledi Award in 2005.
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