If you are intending to attend this year’s Intensive Dance and Improvisation Seminars for performers, dancers, movers and educators in and around Cape Town, then one of the better places to stay would be the de Noordhoek Hotel. The hotel is only about fifteen minutes from the centre of the city, where many of the workshops will be taking place. Baba Yaga Theatre is proud to announce SAIM, co-hosted by UCT School of Dance & Stellenbosch Drama Department. The SAIM will focus on Contact Improvisation & Improvisation with top international guest teachers: Kirstie Simson (Chicago), Bo Madvig (Copenhagen) and local teachers, Jori Snell (Holland/Denmark) and Nicky Visser (SA). The workshops are open to all level participants, who are interested in learning more about Contact-Improvisation as a means to expand their movement vocabulary, reconnecting to a place of authenticity & to learn tools whereby Improvisation becomes a Performing Art in itself. The workshops run until 2nd October in the city centre.
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It’s not often that we get the chance of hearing some good blues music. Dave Ferguson’s solo show, uses only harmonica, human beat-box and vocals doing a mixture of originals and some Blues/Americana numbers. Foot tapping stuff! He plays on the roof of the Grand Daddy Theatre from 17.30 to 19.30 on 14th August, and so a perfect way to get into the weekend groove. Full Bar open! So when you’re staying at the de Noordhoek Hotel this Friday night looking for some good entertainment, try this out.
The newly established InSPIRAtions Dance Company under the auspices of Dance for All and the directorship of Philip Boyd, will present COTTON CLUB MOVES at On Broadway from 11th AUGUST 2009. This production is choreographed by Adele Blank (whose previous shows at On Broadway include City of Angels and Str!p) and features a dynamic company with guest appearances by Free Flight’s Amos Kitlele and Lindiwe Suttle. The show is inspired by the Cotton Club era with music by Miles Davis, George Gershwin and Scott Joplin amongst others. If you’re staying at the de Noordhoek Hotel, are a romantic, and you’d like a touch of nostalgia, don’t miss this inspiring production.
This activity for children takes place at the Bandstand right opposite the front door of the de Noordhoek Hotel on Saturday 7th August at 1030 am. An exhilarating, interactive theatrical experience for children exposing them to the different elements of the world around them including conservation, heritage and the magic of theatre and story telling, through the tale of a fairy lost on Table Mountain trying to find her way home. Magic tricks, singing and dancing form part of the stage theatre performance. The Bandstand is fully enclosed and protected from the elements so kids will stay warm and dry.
It’s a gas, it’s swell, it’s The Rat Pack – Live at the NewSpace for three weeks only. So straighten up and fly right, and saunter down to Long Street for an evening in the company of three legends. The Rat Pack was the epitome of suave, slick style. Consisting of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior and others, they took the world by storm in the 1960′s and now, from 3 to 30 August 2009, glitzy Las Vegas will come to Cape Town when a group of hip, cool, wisecracking cats swagger onto the NewSpace stage. The next best thing to the original slick trio is a South African cast of singers, featuring Patrick Tobin, an American impersonator from New York City as Ol’ Blue Eyes, and local talent Matthew Stewardson as Dean and Dantanio Goodman as Sammy.