FOR ONE WEEK ONLY: DADA MASILO AT THE BAXTER
The hottest ticket of the week is dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo's Carmen at the Baxter from Tuesday to Sunday. If you saw her Romeo and Juliet last year you'll need no persuading. She's just done a new Swan Lake at Joburg's Arts Alive festival where this Carmen was a huge success last year. Masilo says: 'I began with the idea of unravelling Carmen the woman – to search beneath the surface presented in the ballets and operas – to find the vulnerability beneath the cold, heartless exterior... Ultimately, I have created a narrative which allows me and the dancers to do what we love most – to dance.' The music is Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite - Ballet Suite for strings and percussion based on themes from Carmen by George Bizet, Bizet's Carmen Suites, Maria Callas singing the 'Habanera', and two sections of Arvo Pärt's Lamentate.
Baxter Theatre
Tuesday 5 to Sunday 10
Tues to Sat 20h00 Sun 14h30
The hottest ticket of the week is dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo's Carmen at the Baxter from Tuesday to Sunday. If you saw her Romeo and Juliet last year you'll need no persuading. She's just done a new Swan Lake at Joburg's Arts Alive festival where this Carmen was a huge success last year. Masilo says: 'I began with the idea of unravelling Carmen the woman – to search beneath the surface presented in the ballets and operas – to find the vulnerability beneath the cold, heartless exterior... Ultimately, I have created a narrative which allows me and the dancers to do what we love most – to dance.' The music is Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite - Ballet Suite for strings and percussion based on themes from Carmen by George Bizet, Bizet's Carmen Suites, Maria Callas singing the 'Habanera', and two sections of Arvo Pärt's Lamentate.
Baxter Theatre
Tuesday 5 to Sunday 10
Tues to Sat 20h00 Sun 14h30
LAST WEEK FOR MOLLY BLOOM
Another extraordinary woman at the Baxter, Molly Bloom performed by Jennifer Steyn. The "erotic, witty, bawdy, sensual, shocking , moving and highly entertaining stream-of-consciousness monologue" from James Joyce's Ulysses has been adapted and directed by Nicky Rebelo.
Baxter Studio
Till Saturday 9 20h15
VERDI'S REQUIEM
On Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon the Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town and the Symphony Choir of Cape Town perform Verdi’s loved and celebrated Requiem Mass.
City Hall
Thursday 8 20h00 Cost: R 150
Sunday 10 16h00 Cost: R 130
Tel: 021 421 7695
GIPCA GREAT TEXTS/BIG QUESTIONS LECTURE
Another extraordinary woman at the Baxter, Molly Bloom performed by Jennifer Steyn. The "erotic, witty, bawdy, sensual, shocking , moving and highly entertaining stream-of-consciousness monologue" from James Joyce's Ulysses has been adapted and directed by Nicky Rebelo.
Baxter Studio
Till Saturday 9 20h15
VERDI'S REQUIEM
On Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon the Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town and the Symphony Choir of Cape Town perform Verdi’s loved and celebrated Requiem Mass.
City Hall
Thursday 8 20h00 Cost: R 150
Sunday 10 16h00 Cost: R 130
Tel: 021 421 7695
GIPCA GREAT TEXTS/BIG QUESTIONS LECTURE
Ian Glenn, Professor of Media Studies at UCT, is doing the Great Texts / Big Question lecture this Thursday, about the influence of eighteenth-century French explorer François le Vaillant who came to the Cape in 1781 on behalf of the Dutch East India Company to collect specimens of fauna and flora. “Le Vaillant played a major role in establishing how Europe saw the Cape,” says Glenn. “He attempted to represent his South African experience in many ways - from the production of specimens, to lavishly illustrated bird books and travel accounts, and to innovative maps. In so doing, he created more than a single influential text, but rather a range of texts that shaped what came after him, both here and elsewhere. This work helped shape many modern media, genres and intellectual traditions. In many ways Le Vaillant is a founding figure of South African culture.”
Hiddingh Hall Hiddingh Campus
Thursday 7 17h00
021 480 7156 POETRY LAUNCH AT THE BOOK LOUNGE
Ingrid Andersen is an Anglican priest who is the founding editor of an online literary journal called Incwadi, and works in the area of human rights and reconciliation. Piece Work is her second volume of poems.
“Andersen's poems fuse the best of Imagism with a heartfelt compassion; with a few well-chosen words, she can turn the rawness and imprecision of emotion into poems that reach simultaneously for clarity and for the reader's heart. She is generous, careful, passionate – all these qualities make her work profound and accessible. “ Fiona Zerbst
Book Lounge
Wednesday 6 17h30 for 18h00
Ingrid Andersen is an Anglican priest who is the founding editor of an online literary journal called Incwadi, and works in the area of human rights and reconciliation. Piece Work is her second volume of poems.
“Andersen's poems fuse the best of Imagism with a heartfelt compassion; with a few well-chosen words, she can turn the rawness and imprecision of emotion into poems that reach simultaneously for clarity and for the reader's heart. She is generous, careful, passionate – all these qualities make her work profound and accessible. “ Fiona Zerbst
Book Lounge
Wednesday 6 17h30 for 18h00
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: PATMOS AND THE WAR AT SEA
Alastair Whitton was one of four South Africans selected for the 2009 African Photography Biennial where his work was hosted by the Musee Nationale du Mali in Bamako. He says the title refers "to territory and domain, both physical and spiritual as well as the war that ensues in the conquest thereof. Each left-hand page of a work is made up of a selected text which I have translated into Braille. Each image is a carefully reconstructed view of a war scene from an archival/film source ...an attempt to make sense of what has been seen and recorded..."
From Tuesday 5 October to 6 NovemberAlastair Whitton was one of four South Africans selected for the 2009 African Photography Biennial where his work was hosted by the Musee Nationale du Mali in Bamako. He says the title refers "to territory and domain, both physical and spiritual as well as the war that ensues in the conquest thereof. Each left-hand page of a work is made up of a selected text which I have translated into Braille. Each image is a carefully reconstructed view of a war scene from an archival/film source ...an attempt to make sense of what has been seen and recorded..."
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
SOUND INSTALLATION AT SANG
Echoes is a "sound art" project in which Australian Philip Samartzis will produce a surround-sound installation at the SA National Gallery. He "uses recordings of natural and constructed environments which are arranged and mixed to reflect the acoustic and spatial complexities of everyday sound fields." Curated by Jared Davis.
From 8 to 31 October
Echoes is a "sound art" project in which Australian Philip Samartzis will produce a surround-sound installation at the SA National Gallery. He "uses recordings of natural and constructed environments which are arranged and mixed to reflect the acoustic and spatial complexities of everyday sound fields." Curated by Jared Davis.
From 8 to 31 October
OPEN NIGHT AT SA OBSERVATORY
Another open night Saturday at the Observatory. Venus will be close to the moon.
SA Astronomical Observatory Observatory Rd Observatory
Saturday 10 20H00 Cost: Free
Another open night Saturday at the Observatory. Venus will be close to the moon.
SA Astronomical Observatory Observatory Rd Observatory
Saturday 10 20H00 Cost: Free
