SA BALLET lovers are in for a treat. John Neumeier, one of Europe’s top choreographers, will be mounting three of his most popular works with the Cape Town City Ballet in September. The programme has been dedicated to John Cranko, the late SA choreographer who put ballet on the map in Germany.Neumeier’s works will destroy many popular preconceptions about choreographers, and indeed about ballet. A man of the theatre, he looks for the emotional core of a character and brings this to the stage through classically based choreography."Dance," he says,"must be alive. It must be relevant to the audience."He makes thought-provoking dance highly accessible.Sometimes life seems to make the choices for us, and it seems as if this happened a lot for Neumeier. A combination of serendipitous occurrences and astute choices has shaped his life. A quietly spoken and highly intelligent man, he was born in Milwaukee in the US. His direction as a dancer was set by Father John Walsh, the charismatic he...
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