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Dancing for the Children

28 July 2007
Artscape Opera House


Dancing for the Children is a charity ballet gala featuring the Royal Ballet's principal dancer Mara Galeazzi, and guest artists from the London Royal Ballet. Extracts from masterworks including Romeo and Juliet, The Two Pigeons, Elite Syncopation's and La Sylphide will be performed and Hans van Manen's, Trois Gnossiennes will have it's South African premiere and will be danced by the Cape Town City Ballet dancers. Trois Gnossiennes will be a first for the Cape Town City Ballet and the first time a South African company has been granted the rights to perform a work by this greatly acclaimed and internationally respected Dutch master choreographer, Hans van Manen. All proceeds to these two performances go to local children's charities.