10 Jul 12 - 29 Jul 12
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Showtime Australia presents the best of ABBA live - all the musical memories, costumes, flares, boots and disco balls! Relive the magic that was the `70s and `80s with best loved renditions of Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Fernando, Mama Mia, I Do I Do I Do and so many more. The ABBA Show has been all ar…
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08 Jul 12
Deur die loop van die eeue is baie …
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Deur die loop van die eeue is baie musiek met die titel ?Ave Maria? gekomponeer. Ook is die gebruik van die woordjie ?Halleluja / Allelui. `n algemene verskynsel in die musiekkonteks. Die ATKV, in samewerking met die US Woordfees se besondere musiekproduksie, Ave Maria / Halleluja is gebaseer op die…
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31 May 12 - 02 Jun 12
The Hoppers is a family gospel grou…
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The Hoppers is a family gospel group that has blessed many people through the Gaither dvds. See them live for the first time in SA!
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05 Aug 12
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The Eastern Cape Philharmonic will be hoping to entertain all ages at this magical concert - featuring Piazzola`s exciting Bandoneon concerto, as well as Rimsky Korsakov`s much loved Scheherezade - with Roy Williams narrating the story. Columbian born conductor, German Gutierrez will be conducting t…
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02 Sep 12
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Vanessa Tait-Jones, overall winner of the 2011 Muziqanto competition, will be bringing Wagner to the Feather Market, with her performance of his five Wesendonck lieder. Also on the programme, conducted by Alexander Fokkens, will be Beethoven`s Coriolanus Overture and Tchaikovsky`s Symphony No 4
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02 Dec 12
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What better way to end the year than with two hugely popular works: Tchaikovsky`s Piano concerto No 1 and Dvorak`s Symphony No 9 - better know as the New World Symphony. Israeli born pianist Inon Barnatan has performed around the world, most recently appearing as a soloist in the Lincoln Centre`s Gr…
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28 Jun 12 - 29 Jun 12
!Aia is a transversal work between …
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!Aia is a transversal work between art, culture, science and traditional wisdom. !Aia creates a dialogue about our origins, life, the living, the relationship between human beings and nature. The company has worked with scientists, artists and traditional healers in unique places including the Cradl…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
"Written by Teakshania Chetty colla…
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"Written by Teakshania Chetty collaborating with Genbia Hyla Directed by Thembalethu Professor Nqumako.A button is pressed. "Start"! Gun shots! Pow! Pow! "Go".The trap doors are shut, and interrogations are all that is left when there`s nowhere to hide.Man to man, face to face! Bang! Bang! Bang! The…
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29 Jun 12 - 03 Jul 12
A home-grown heist movie with a tou…
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A home-grown heist movie with a touch of Bollywood. The director of the vastly successful Bunny Chow returns with a wonderful Indo-South African comedy about a corrupt cop, Ronnie, who has pretensions to being above the criminal classes and who desperately wants to clean up his act. Ronnie is given …
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03 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
Glimpse into the contemporary cinem…
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Glimpse into the contemporary cinema of the country which has given us Polanski, Skolomowski, Borowczyk, Lenica and Zulawski. Czetery noce z Anna.
Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz after a long period of silence, the masterful Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, returns to cinema with this dark but tou…
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30 Jun 12
"Cape Town master percussionist Ron…
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"Cape Town master percussionist Ronan Skillen spent time last year on a ProHelvetia artist residency in Switzerland where he collaborated widely with Swiss musicians. One of the most interesting to emerge was this trio, which is a mix of world music, jazz and electro with vocals, accordion, bass cla…
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04 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
Max Bruch was one of the last of th…
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Max Bruch was one of the last of the conservative Romantic composers, preferring to compose in the autumnal and tonal style reminiscent of Brahms rather than following the more radical experimentation of Wagner, Liszt and Strauss. Known primarily as a choral composer during his lifetime, his reputat…
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28 Jun 12 - 01 Jul 12
An extraordinary adventure into the…
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An extraordinary adventure into the depths of imagination this performance art piece of choreography for puppets and their puppeteer, a ventilation system and a few props: a plastic bag, a coat, a pair of scissors, a roll of sticky tape, a walking stick and an umbrella, will have people of all ages …
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04 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
This play transports the audience t…
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This play transports the audience to a world where spirits wander, trees stretch way up to the sky and deep below the soil, and the air is thick with history and heat. A world where ancient rituals have the power to re-unite lovers separated by death.
Communities around the world suffer great loss…
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02 Jul 12
"The Standard Bank National Youth J…
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"The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012 with a suitably powerful line-up of musicians and teachers, brought here to perform for the audiences of the National Arts Festival, but also to inspire the 350 young South African jazz players gathered in Graham…
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30 Jun 12
All the music in this programme is …
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All the music in this programme is based on fragments of music or styles that originate deep in our history- mainly from the San culture. The San people roamed this country long before anyone else and are, arguably, the most dispossessed of all the inhabitants of South Africa. Pressed on all sides t…
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06 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
Every once in a while a musician em…
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Every once in a while a musician emerges who is able to surpass the limitations of traditional musical approaches to create a sound of transcendent musical feel and emotion. Steel pan player Andy Narell is one such musician. Never satisfied with the musical status quo Narell continuously pushes the …
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01 Jul 12 - 03 Jul 12
A re-education camp for myths. A ba…
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A re-education camp for myths. A battery farm for victims. The place where stories go after we stop telling them. This is the world as Persephone, Orpheus and Sisyphus know it. All victims of a brutal system ruled by indifferent gods, they struggle to find meaning and identity in their stories of ab…
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