Cape Town City Ballet to Join Cape Town Philharmonic for SYMPHONY OF DANCE, 10/7

The Cape Town City Ballet and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra are set to
appear together on stage in the spectacular production, Symphony of Dance.

Conceptualized by Robin van Wyk, Artistic Director of Cape Town City Ballet,
the programme features six breath-taking ballets danced to famous orchestral
and instrumental masterpieces by Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ponchielli, Barber
and Pärt.

Says Van Wyk, 'Our ballet audiences are accustomed to seeing the dancers on
stage and the orchestra in the pit. However, for Symphony of Dance, the Cape
Town Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Graham Scott, will share the
onstage limelight with us in a wonderful celebration of classical and
neo-classical dance.'

The highlight of the programme is bound to be the world premiere and first
ever staging of Romance, a new ballet by Robin van Wyk, danced to a live
performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's magnificent 2nd Piano Concerto.
Audiences will be thrilled to know that the piano soloist for all
performances will be the acclaimed South African pianist, Francois du Toit.

Two more ballets will also be premiered. Largo Variation, choreographed by
Kirsten Isenberg, is set to the poignant minimalistic, Spiegel im Spiegel,
by the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. In Adagio for Strings, another new work
by Van Wyk, the dancers will move to the stirringly emotive composition by
the same name, written by American composer Samuel Barber.

Audiences can additionally look forward to the beloved music of Johann
Strauss in The Emperor Waltz, choreographed by Veronica Paeper, and The Blue
Danube, choreographed by Van Wyk. In Van Wyk's ballet Ensemble for Six, The
Dance of the Hours from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera, La Gioconda, will take
centre stage.

Symphony of Dance is showing at Artscape in Cape Town from 7 - 11 October.
For this limited season, tickets from R150 - R350 are available at
Computicket or Artscape Dial-a-Seat on tel. 021 421 7695.

Performances:
Wednesday 7 October at 19h30
Friday 9 OOctober at 19h30
Saturday 10 October at 14h00
Saturday 10 October at 19h30
Sunday 11 October at 15h00

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