Bovim Ballet is under the Artistic Directorship of its founder, the award-winning choreographer Sean Bovim. The production has been beautifully costumed by the acclaimed international designers Malcolm Klûk and Christiaan Gabriel du Toit, with lighting by Daniel Galloway and the set design by Karl Staub, resulting in a production that is a veritable feast for the eyes. The music for Tango Nights includes the powerful ‘Roxanne' from the film Moulin Rouge and Gotan Project. Adding the twists and turns in the story and enticing the audience all the way to the show's ultimate dramatic conclusion, are dancers Darren Greef, Grant Swift, Devon Marshbank, Ignatius Van Heerden, James Bradley, Shaun Brian Murphy, Kirsten Isenberg, Jennnifer Middleton, Faye Dubinski, Taryn Makaab, Nicola Marais, Alexandra Potgieter and Tracey Aaron. They are superbly lead by principal dancers Kerryn Howard, Andre Sauer, Tanya Futter and Marc Golderg, who take the audience on a dazzling journey to Café Tango, weaving a love story through tantalising and sensuous dance sequences.
Bovim is known for repeatedly pushing choreographic boundaries and uses classical ballet because of its physicality, musicality and creativity and to show off extraordinary technique combined with a fusion of styles that has become his own vocabulary. For him, ballet is not only about the great classics such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, but deserves to be given the space to evolve just like architecture, art and the culture that surrounds us. Over the past 15 years his work has been seen all over South Africa and as far afield as the USA, Russia, Denmark, Spain, the Edinburgh Festival and Ireland, where Queen at the Ballet played to more than 30,000 people with standing ovations at every performance at the Point Theatre in Dublin. Bovim won the Dance Indaba Fringe Award for Choreography in 1995, the National Choreographic Competition in 1999 and SwingTime won a Naledi in 2005.
Tango Nights runs nightly for a limited season only from Wednesday 3 June to Saturday 6 June at 20h00 at The Baxter Theatre. Tickets cost R120 to R135 through Computicket with special discounts for pensioners, students and block bookings of ten or more. This is Cape Town's last opportunity to see this dynamic production before it premieres at the Sand du Plessis Theatre in Bloemfontein (10 - 13 June), and at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg (17 - 21 June). Advance booking is recommended.
