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Baxter Dance Festival

From pirouettes to popping and locking, this yearly dance gala has something for everyone

Celebrate all forms of dance and movement at this premier Mother City dance event. The 2015 Baxter Theatre Dance Festival will run from Thursday, 8 to Saturday, 17 October 2015 with a jam-packed line-up. The fiesta boasts three different programmes that not only pay homage to the art of movement, but also provides a platform for established, emerging and young dancers, choreographers and companies to showcase their skills in a professional setting.

Made up of three programmes (Main, Off-Main and Fringe) spread across 10 days and taking place on the main theatre stage, the event will see dancers crump, canter and careen to the instructions of veteran and upcoming choreographers in what has become one of Cape Town’s most popular annual dancing events.

The festival boasts an impressive history of commissioned work, featuring well-known choreographers such as Steven van Wyk and Thalia Laric (2014), Ananda Fuchs (2012), Grant van Ster (2011), Carolyn Holden from La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre (2010), Mamela Nyamza (2009), Levern Botha (2008), Yarisha Singh and Celeste Botha (2007), Marlin Zoutman (2006) and Ebrahim Medell (2005).

The Baxter Theatre Dance Festival began in 2004 and has since seen over 500 local choreographers displaying their works on stage, with around 4000 dancers from over 400 studios, dance schools and companies from around the Western Cape presenting an impressive variety of dance styles. So this year’s event will build on the foundations of past events and will certainly move you.

PROGRAMMES FOR THE 2015 BAXTER THEATRE DANCE FESTIVAL

MAIN PROGRAMME (8-17 OCT 2015): The main schedule will run each evening at 8pm, and is billed to showcase the productions of established professional companies and invited choreographers.

OFF-MAIN PROGRAMME (10 OCT 2015 at 5pm): This one-day line-up of events will take place on Saturday, 10 October 2015 and will feature young emerging choreographers and student work. See up and coming artists put their best foot forward and give audiences a taste of things to come.

FRINGE PROGRAMME (17 OCT 2015 at 2pm): With a holistic approach to performance art and in an effort to encourage young dancers, the festival will, once again host its fringe programme. This afternoon show provides a platform for youth and school groups, small studios and traditional dance groups to perform on a professional platform.

LINE-UP FOR THE 2015 BAXTER THEATRE DANCE FESTIVAL

MAIN PROGRAMME: Thursday, 8 (Opening) and Friday, 9 October at 8pm

TITLE OF WORK

DANCE COMPANY

Untitled

Nuwe Graskoue Trappers

The Last Attitude

Mamela Nyamza & Nelisiwe Xaba

MAIN PROGRAMME: Monday, 12 and Tuesday, 13 October at 8pm

Eyes Wide Open

EOAN Group Theatre Company

Elements of Woman

Northern Dance Project

Unspoken

CAFDA Youth Dance Company 34/18

Cipher

Underground Dance Theatre

These Shadows

Dance For All

Calligraphy

Cape Dance Company II

Alabastar Box

Dance Theater Africa

MAIN PROGRAMME: Wednesday, 14 and Thursday, 15 October at 8pm

Absent

YAOTL Physical Art Company

Exchange

Dance For All InSPIRAtions Youth Company

She & Him, Him & Her, He & I, Us & Them

Cape Dance Company

Perfect Contradiction

New World Dance Theatre

The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl Called Life

EOAN Group Theatre Company & Trainees

Measureless

Yaseen Manuel

Present in the Stillness: an excerpt from Biographies

Zoey Lapinsky

MAIN PROGRAMME: Friday, 16 and Saturday, 17 October (Final) at 8pm

The Architecture of Blood

Somnatic Jam Dance Collective

Elk-Een

Garage Dance Ensemble

Trigger Warnings

Yellow Glove Collective

Sons and Daughters of Anarchy

EOAN Group Theatre Company

Abangabonwa

Sibonelo Dance Project

Crucify

Indoni Dance Arts and Leadership Academy

Within

Figure of Eight Dance Collective

OFF MAIN PROGRAMME: Saturday, 10 October at 5pm

Sajde – A Prayer For My Beloved

TAARE

Poetry in Motion

CAFDA Dance Theatre

Broken People

New World Dance Theatre

TOME

Coila-Leah Enderstein & Nicola van Straaten

Freedom in Captivity

Prematuur

Larger Than Life

Zest Dance Connexion

Confrontations

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Life Could Be A Dream

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

365 Days

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Cosmos

African Dance1

Day Apart

Day Apart

Fragments

EOAN Group Theatre Company Trainees

Strong Woman In Me

EOAN Group

Dreams into Reality

Out of Africa Dance Academy

The Unknown

UCT School of Dance

Escape

Waterfront Theatre School

I Never Learnt to Share

Waterfront Theatre School

Elastic Heart

The Dance Centre

My Own Strength

Waterfront Theatre School

Clouds

EOAN Group School of Performing Arts

Shirtology - With Apologies to Jérôme Bel

Nicola van Straaten

FRINGE PROGRAMME: Saturday, 17 October at 2pm

Tempest

South Peninsula High School

Out of Difficulties, Come Miracles

Dance For All – Montagu

Cape Dances Through the Ages

Bridgetown Theatre Company

Synergy

Shiloah Christian School

Sewing Roses Instead of Pain

Dance For All – Bridging Programme

Excerpt from Swan Lake

Dance For All

Phila!

Dance For All

Lay Me Down

EOAN Group

Torment

Dance Co.

Just Liam

Waterfront Theatre School

Let the Music Move You

Waterfront Theatre School

Call Me Baby

Waterfront Theatre School

Analogue

Waterfront Theatre School

Finishing Line

Waterfront Theatre School

Partita Africana

Kairos Eurythmy Dance Company

Forever Pink

Bemur Dance Group

Every Woman is a Goddess

HipNotize Bellydance Academy

Blessed Assurance

Maranatha Dance Group

(IM-possible)

MOVE IT – Wynberg High School

Conversations with my thirteen year old self

NYDC School of Dance

No Fear

B2D Studios

Blank Canvas

Body Rock School of Performing Arts

If Loves Runs Out

Rhapsody Dance Centre

Untitled

Belhar High School

Majaivana

Amy Biehl Foundation – Kwaito Dancers

Emgodini

Amy Biehl Foundation – Gumboot Dancers

Dance Teacher

Likhwezi Arts Project

Tshisa

Professionals

We Remember Where We Come From

Masabelane Foundation

This is What Makes Us Girls

Alexander High School

On and On

Cape Junior Ballet Company

Telos Movement

Cape Junior Ballet Company

TICKETS FOR THE 2015 BAXTER THEATRE DANCE FESTIVAL

Tickets for festival are available via Computicket.com and Computicket outlets, and costs are as follows:

TICKET TYPE

COST

Main programme

R100p/p

Off-main programme

R60p/p

Fringe programme

R30p/p

Students, seniors, block bookings of 10 and more.

Less 15%

Book for two or more performances

Less 20%

Do note that discounts are only available at Computicket outlets.

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