Guides & How-To
What the science of motor learning says about dance practice: what holds up, what is only studio folklore, and what to change in your next class.
News
RAD, Cecchetti, DASA, Vaganova: what South Africa's ballet methods and syllabi are, how they differ, and how to choose the one that fits what you want.
News
More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.
News
The grant logic is changing, and programmers are following it.
Reviews
Notes on making dance that survives the move from studio to stage.
Features
The unglamorous systems holding a modern production together.
Interviews
Operators weigh economics against the rooms that built careers.
Festivals & Events
A Little Night Music is the Stephen Sondheim musical with Send in the Clowns in it, and Cape Town Opera is staging it at Theatre on the Bay from 30 June to 12 July 2026.1,2
Festivals & Events
Euripides wrote The Bacchae about a god who refuses to be denied and a city that tries to deny him.
Festivals & Events
The Artscape Opera House hosts what its organisers bill as the largest ballet competition in Africa from 4 to 6 August 2026: The 13th South African International Ballet Competition.1,2
Festivals & Events
One of South Africa's newest ballet companies is taking on the most famous ballet of them all.
Indian Classical Dance
Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City, Johannesburg South · From 25 Jul 2026 14:00 · R200 - R250
Ballet
Africa's largest ballet competition returns to the Artscape Opera House: three days of dancers aged nine to twenty-two, competing in classical and contemporary work befor...
Ballet
Cape Ballet Africa, barely two years old, takes on ballet's hardest classic: Swan Lake at the Teatro, danced by a fifty-strong company, with extra weekend shows added aft...
Venue
Cape Town's principal performing-arts centre on the Foreshore, home to the city's opera, ballet and orchestral companies across three auditoria.
Organisation
A South African dance examination body, setting graded ballet and dance standards for affiliated studios nationwide.
Person
Mthuthuzeli November is an Olivier Award-winning South African dancer-maker. He choreographs The Bacchae, an African choral ballet at the Joburg Theatre in July 2026, his...
Platform
Webtickets is a South African ticketing platform and the booking source every event cue links out to. It is also the ingest pipeline's primary source, read from its Balle...
Guides & How-To
What the science of motor learning says about dance practice: what holds up, what is only studio folklore, and what to change in your next class.
News
RAD, Cecchetti, DASA, Vaganova: what South Africa's ballet methods and syllabi are, how they differ, and how to choose the one that fits what you want.
News
More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.
News
The grant logic is changing, and programmers are following it.
Reviews
Notes on making dance that survives the move from studio to stage.
Features
The unglamorous systems holding a modern production together.
Interviews
Operators weigh economics against the rooms that built careers.
The companies, venues, studios and the people behind the work, gathered in one place. Browse the directory.
Festivals, seasons and single nights across the country, soonest first. See what's on.
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