TAG: Dance for Alls talented young dancers will perform in Stargaze at Artscape on August 26.
DANCE for All (DFA) will present Stargaze, a 21st anniversary gala and tribute to Dudley Tomlinson, at Artscape on August 26 at 7.30pm.
Tomlinson, a master ballet teacher who, during 30 years of teaching at UCT Ballet School (now UCT School of Dance), was instrumental in training DFA CEO Philip Boyd, a number of DFA’s other teachers and many dancers who have become well known in SA and abroad.
The programme will showcase DFA’s InSPIRAtions Youth Company, as well as students from its Cape Town Outreach Programme and Specialised Dance Programmes.
They will perform pieces that reflect a variety of dance styles.
There will be guest performances by La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre, the UCT School of Dance and the Cape Academy of Performing Arts (Capa).
After training at UCT Ballet School, Tomlinson went to London in 1960 to join the Royal Ballet School and was soon accepted into the resident Royal Ballet Company at Covent Garden.
He was there when Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West and benefited from witnessing Nureyev’s dynamic, intense style, which raised the standard for male ballet dancers. At the behest of Dame Ninette de Valois, he spent three years as ballet master to the Turkish National Ballet Company, which was founded by De Valois. After this, he joined the Royal Ballet touring company for a year.
Dudley returned to SA in 1968 and began teaching at UCT Ballet School.
DFA offers classes to about 1 000 children daily in Gugulethu, Nyanga, Langa and Khayelitsha. Here students aged three and upwards learn ballet, contemporary and African dance. – Arts writer
l Tickets are R250. Call Computicket at 0861 915 8000.
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