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The Sleeping Beauty

22 20 May - 4 June 2006
Artscape's Opera House

Considered by many as the ultimate classical ballet, The Sleeping Beauty will once again be performed in Cape Town after an absence of nine years, at Artscape's Opera House, May 20- June 4, 2006.

Tchaikovsky's spellbinding score will be brought to life by the Cape Philharmonic under the direction of British-born composer and conductor, Michael Hankinson, and by the dancers of South Africa's oldest ballet company, The Cape Town City Ballet. This production features the popular husband and wife team, Marianne Bauer and Coert Grobbelaar as Aurora and Prince Florimund, Robin van Wyk as the evil fairy Carabosse and Christy Johnson the benevolent Lilac Fairy.

First staged in 1975 by David Poole after Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty has remained one of the most popular ballets in the classical repetoire and other versions are performed regularly world wide. Sleeping Beauty enthrals the young, with diverts such as Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots and the Blue Bird pas de deux in Act 3, but also satisfies the discerning ballet lover with the breath-taking Rose Adage from Act 1 and the famous Grand Pas in Act 3

CTCB's 2006 production has been reproduced for the company by Executive Director Elizabeth Triegaardt, Poole's original Lilac Fairy.

'We owe it to David Poole, the dancers of then and now, the world of classical dance and the dancers of the future to keep classics such as The Sleeping Beauty alive' says CTCB's Elizabeth Triegaardt.