
PAST EVENTS
A Spartacus of Africa
The first ballet versions of the Spartacus story were produced in Russia by the Kirov and Bolshoi companies. Veronica Paeper, then choreographer for CAPAB first created her production in 1984.
In 2015 she re-created her grand-scale, full length ballet and adapted it and set it in a mythical African environment. This had the largest ever cast of dancers and dance students. This production was then re-worked into a touring production and which has been able to reach over 20 000.
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The leading roles were performed by Brooklyn Mack (The Washington Ballet), Lara Turk (The Royal Ballet), Casey Swales (South Africa), Andile Ndlovu (The Washington Ballet), Michaela Griffin (South Africa), Kristin Wilson (South Africa), Willem Houck (Netherlands) with David Krugel in the character guest artist role.
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Click here to see footage from the ballet.

ENB/ Akram Khan GISELLE
SANDT recognised that the English National Ballet/Akram Khan/, GISELLE was an essential new production that needed to be shared with as many South Africans involved in dance as possible. Not only the screening of the production, which is a masterpiece, but also with the ‘making of’ this conscious approach to a professional and iconic ballet was screened.
SANDT is grateful to ENB for recognising our aim and for allowing us to present these remarkable programmes to dance professionals in South Africa.
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Kerry Nicholls Dance
SANDT was thrilled to introduce world renowned, leading-edge, pioneer in dance, KND, to South Africa in 2019. Kerry has a passion for coaching and supporting professional talent and brings her demonstrable experience to help artists learn more about themselves through encouragement, provocation, and strategic intervention.
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Since mentoring and coaching worldwide for the past decade, she has succeeded in providing an honest groundwork for change, placing the individual artist at the centre of their own learning, empowering them to shape their own opportunity to learn, grow and develop.
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Kerry’s approach is one of partnership, providing both challenge and support, connecting the achievement between potential and creative outcome. This process builds resourcefulness, self-awareness and resilience, all essential qualities for the 21st century artist.
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Practical Business Programme for the Performing Arts
During the 2020 lock-down period SANDT identified that dancers and the arts sector were one of the hardest affected with no income opportunities available, especially those who were independent artists.
We set about sourcing an appropriate organization who could offer a practical on-line course and provide information related to the sector. This included ways of managing their artistic skill-sets as a business, to finding innovative means of generating income and to managing their professional lives going forward.
Over 50 artists from a cross-section of the art sector successfully completed the 8-week program.

It's Beautiful at the Ballet
SANDT was one of the first dance organisations to present a production post the Covid lockdown. Although there were still restrictions, we presented this highly successful collaborative season at Pieter Toerien's Theatre on the Bay.
This enabled us to invite dance companies to collaborate, provide professional opportunities to independent professional dancers, choreographers, apprentice dancers, costume makers, lighting designers and theatre staff as well as to bring the dance community together.
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It was a joy working with Joburg Ballet as well as the three renowned South African choreographers, Veronica Paeper, Sean Bovim, Adele Blank.
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Our aim to inspire audiences with an uplifting and positive theatre experience was accomplished with sold out houses.

Ballet is Beautiful
Ballet is Beautiful was the follow up to the previous season production, It's Beautiful at the Ballet.
Pieter Toerien's Theatre on the Bay, which was back to full audience capacity was the ideal stage for this expanded production.
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The production was then invited to KZN, to the inspiring Playhouse Opera Theatre, accompanied by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of maestro Eddie Clayton.
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Choreographers for the production were, Veronica Paeper, Adele Blank, Sean Bovim and Dane Hurst.
Royal Ballet soloist, Romany Pajdak was the guest artist.
It was a privilege to have the Jazzart Company and Joburg Ballet in this collaborative production with SANDT's independent, professional dancers.
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It was decided that this collaborative series of inspiring productions be expanded to a trilogy. We have now embarked on creating the third, expanded production which will be on stages across South Africa in 2025.
