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The Directory in South Africa

By Kind

  • Organisations 359 entries

    Companies, schools, studios, festivals and the bodies behind them.

  • People 964 entries

    Teachers, principals, choreographers and performers named in the directory.

  • Places 34 entries

    The physical spaces: complexes, the halls inside them, and standalone venues.

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Artscape Theatre Centre

A performing-arts centre on the Foreshore in Cape Town, home to the city's opera, ballet and orchestral companies across three auditoria.

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Guides & How-To

How Dancers Actually Learn: The Practice Methods That Work, and the Ones That Do Not

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.

By Riaan Burger

21 min read 4 168 words

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The Styles of Ballet in South Africa: A Dancer's Guide to the Methods and Syllabi

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.

By Riaan Burger

14 min read 2 757 words

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The quiet rise of the producer-performer

More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.

By Riaan Burger

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Festival funding shifts toward year-round programming

The grant logic is changing, and programmers are following it.

By Adaeze Okonkwo

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