Hunt for the Golden Eggs on Sunday 24 April and Win some fantastic price!

Date: 21 April 2011
Article: Madoda Ntuli
Picture: Mariola Biela

For the first in South Africa, the latest international stage sensation, The SOPRONOS, A OPENS ON THEMandela stage at the Joburg Theatre this last night.Audience was treated to some of the best-loved and instantly recognizable music of all time performed in the SOPRANOS own inimitable and evocative style, from hushed intimate tones to full throttle rock, the spine-tingling vocals unify with breath-taking harmonies.

A must for all ages, THE SOPRANOS, performed their renditions of hits ranging from The Marriage of Figaro to Rogers & Hammerstein’s Gonna Wash That man, From Puccini’s Nessun Dorma to James Bond’s Goldfinger, Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen to Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, Bizet’s Carmen to Andrew Lioyd Webber’s with One look and all other genres in between.

 The full symphony sound accompanying the Sopranos was created by New Zealand’s Wellington Sinfonia and the show features seven-piece on stage band starring the sassy all girl string quartet, the Glamrocks.

JOUBURG THEATRE HAS ARRANGED SPECIAL HOLIDAY PERFOMANCE OVER THE EASTER PERIOD:

Wednesday 20 April-08pm

Thursday 21 April -8pm

Saturday 23 April-8pm

Sunday 24 April-8pm

Wednesday 27 April 5pm

Thursday  28 April-8pm

Friday 29 April -8pm

Saturday 30 April-5pm & pm

Sunday 30 April-5pm & 8pm

Golden eggs will be places on selected seats in the Auditorium on Sunday 24 April and Patrons can will some fantastic prizes-these include

SOPRANOS runs from wednesday 20 April and the limited season must close on Sunday May 1st 2011

THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS

20 April 2011

HAIR & COMB


Directed by Napo MasheaneHAIR & COMB is set against an urban city backdrop is a uniquely contemporary South African play.A hair salon for most people severs as a melting pot for many social and personal topics. HAIR & COMB allow us to tap into the lives of different characters in and out of the Hair Salon. And we as the audience witness each characters journey, their fears, pain, and struggles as we share in their dreams.

We learn about survival in the hair business, we see the value of friendship and the breakdown of communities. We are exposed to the realities of a new South Africa and its emerging issues: the new money, xenophobia, sexuality, race, gender, beauty, image, relationships, friendships, love and HAIR. ‘Hair’ in this play, in a metaphorical sense, is used for what lies behind the look,
the obsession and generally accepted notion of beauty and its madness.
HAIR AND COMB tells the rich cultural textures of South Africa and its people, as it wittingly weds opinions and perspectives in public spaces.

Acclaimed director, poet, actress and producer Napo Masheane made her mark as a multi-skilled theatre artist on both international and national stages. A founding member of Feela Sista! Spoken Word Collective, she is also the director of her own company Village Gossip Productions. ). Some of Napo’s previous directing projects include My Bum Is Genetic Deal with it (2007), Fat black women sing (2008), and Mollo -the woman in me (2010). This production is the first multicultural cast to journey with Napo. Do not miss this vibrant, fun, thought-provoking play!

WEAR YOUR HAIR – IT DOESN’T DEFINE YOU!
DATES: 3- 7 May 2011
VENUE: The Masker Theatre (UP Main Campus)
TIME: 19h00
PRICE: Students R25; Block Bookings R30; Adults R35.
BOOKINGS: Yvonne 012-4202558 or at the door.
For further information please contact Teboho Motloung (0768485973
hlomelangtm@gmail.com) OR Thuli Mabaso (0783712625
productions.village@gmail.com)

DANCE OF DESIRE

Date: 19 April 2011
Article: Madoda Ntuli

"IF YOU LOVED RIVERDANCELORD OF THE DANCE
ANDSPIRIT OF THE DANCEYOU WON’T WANT TO MISS"

For the first time in South Africa, Joburg Theatre is proud to present the exclusive visit of DANCE OF DESIRE on the Mandela stage from May 3rd until May 22nd 2011.
Complete with entirely original music and choreography DANCE of DESIRE is undoubtedly unique in its imaginative design.  This ground breaking Irish production challenges the boundaries of other Irish dance productions and has uniquely elevated the world of Irish dance to a new level.  DANCE of DESIRE is also one of a select few Irish resident and touring dance productions which was actually produced in Ireland and has received critical acclaim not just abroad but also at home in Ireland where creative distinction is reserved for only those who excel amongst their peers within the Irish music and dance traditions. 

The show has a cast of 25 performers and comprises world and Irish champion dancers and a selection of Ireland’s finest musical and vocal virtuosos. It has already played to sell out audiences from Beijing to Berlin, Chicago to the Czech Republic, Kuala Lumpur to Paris and just finished a nine-month residency in Jupiter’s Casino, Gold Coast Australia.  The accumulative skills and talents of the costume, set and lighting designers has insured too that the power and passion of the shows story-line devised by Sean Quinlan is conveyed to the audience in a realistic and all encapsulating manner.

While the choreography described as “outstanding and extremely innovative” speaks for itself in terms of the heights it reaches and the boundaries that it crosses.      
DANCE OF DESIRE has birthed and lives in a post-Riverdance world. What is important is that it is not a sonic mirror of the now world famous Bill Whelan musical score, but brings a fresh spirit to bear on the story. In doing so, DANCE OF DESIRE is opening further doors for the continuation of the new professionalism of Irish dance… DANCE OF DESIRE brings an upbeat joy to the lives of so many through his professionalism and musical inventiveness. 

DANCE OF DESIRE is the national dance company in Ireland where Riverdance was born.  “We supply them with their dancers and many of the Riverdance current dancers came from us,” says Michael Carr, Executive Producer.  We are the parent company who trains the dancers.”

Tickets are priced from R171 and are on sale now exclusively by visiting http://www.joburgtheatre.com/ and purchasing your print-at-home ticket on the internet, or by calling the theatre’s new direct ticketing line on 0861 670 670.
Tickets for Joburg Theatre’s shows no longer add the traditional ticketing agency booking fee, so the price you see advertised is the price you pay.  Subsequently, the theatre’s tickets are no longer available at Computicket.

Kasi concert rescheduled due to bad weather

Date: 19 April 2011
Article: Madoda ntuli

The recent Kasi Funfair at Dorothy Nyembe Park ushered a new era of family entertainment into the heart of Soweto, and local residents showed their approval by turning up in great numbers.

“Attendances were most heartening,” says organiser Nomsa Sibeko, who had also ensured that the funfair had a strong element of local social upliftment. She adds: “The support that we saw will ensure that this family event becomes an annual one.” Concert rained out – but not to worry! Unfortunately, bad weather halted the scheduled concert – which was supposed to end off the funfair season. Fans who had looked forward to attending, need not worry, however, as the entire show has been rescheduled for the same venue, on Sunday May 1st.

The line-up is the same as was previously advertised, with one of the headline acts being DJ Euphonik, one of South Africa's most successful young dance DJs, who has a legendary reputation as a crowd-pleaser, both in clubs and on the air.  Revellers can also enjoy Khuli Chana, who will be bringing his own flavour of ‘vernacular rap’, or Motswako. Borrowing elements from various musical backgrounds, Motswako uses street-talk to convey important messages to the youth, and it does so in various South African languages. Fans will also get the chance to “Shake Your Bum Bum” with the wildly popular Black Coffee, featuring Zakes Bantwini, who will perform this and other hits. Add to the mix Proffesa, Pro Kid, DJ Zinhle, DJ KG, DJ Tokzen, DJ Toyoter – and others, in a concert that’s destined to be remembered for years to come.
The concert starts at 4pm and runs till late.
Be there!

PLEASE NOTE:

Guests are reminded that no food or drinks may be brought into the venue. Bars will be available for the purchasing of beer or cooldrinks, and numerous hot food vendors will keep hunger from the door!
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Please note that tickets will not be sold at the gate.
Tickets bought for the original date may be used at the gate for this rescheduled concert.
Bookings can now be made at Computicket outlets (Checkers Hyper and Shoprite), 083 915 8000, or online at http://www.computicket.com/

VENUE: Dorothy Nyembe Park,
Corner Matla and Mnisi Roads,
Dobsonville,
Soweto
DATE & TIME: May 1st at 4pm
TICKETS: Regular tickets, R100 or Golden Circle tickets, R150

Evita Bezuidenhout and Ouma Ossewania

Date: 19 April 2011

Pieter-Dirk Uys presents Evita Bezuidenhout (born Evangelie Poggenpoel) and
her mother Ouma Ossewania Kakebenia Poggenpoel in a rousing tribute to our
recent history.

It is 50 years since the apartheid Republic of South Africa was born. Today Tannie Evita tries to find the truth among all the spin, shock and awe, while her ma is furious that she wasted her life believing the lie that apartheid was a gift from God.
She is now over 100 and it's too late to sleep with the garden boy! Or is it too much to except him to kiss that boer?
DIE POGGENPOELS PRAAT - is mainly in Afrikaans but also hilariously in some
English

Musical fireworks in JPO's mid-year season

 Date 19  April 2011

What better way to enjoy the cooler autumn months than with a hearty broth of fine music, courtesy of the JPO’s second season of symphony concerts?
The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s next concert season kicks off on 4 May 2011 and wraps up on 9 June 2011. The series of concerts will once again showcase the timeless beauty of classical music to Joburg and Pretoria audiences.

The concerts begin at Parktown’s Linder Auditorium on 4 and 5 May with what will undoubtedly be a treat for avid music lovers: Singaporean-born Indian conductor George Mathew, inspirational founder of Music for Life International and Ubuntu-Shruti, will make a guest appearance with the JPO. As a torch-bearer for transformative action through the arts, Mathew is passionate about using symphonic music to focus on global humanitarian issues and crises.
Under his baton, the JPO and Montenegrian violinist Roman Simovic, currently concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Op.61, D major. The programme also includes Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, Op.47 and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, Op.25.
Mathew, Simovic and the JPO will repeat this concert at Unisa’s ZK Matthews Hall on Sunday, 8 May at 3pm.

The bar remains high for the remainder of the season, with Polish conductor Michal Dworzynski coming on board for the following two weeks. Described as a “firecracker” and “energiser” of a conductor, he will be leading the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.3, Op.29, D major (Polish) and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op.35, on 11 and 12 May.
Dworzynski will remain in town the following week for the concerts on 18 and 19 May at the Linder Auditorium, with a repeat at Unisa on 22 May at 3pm. The featured soloist is Dmitry Kouzev, a talented and versatile cellist from Russia who returns to South Africa to perform Schumann’s Cello Concerto, Op.129, A minor with the JPO. The remainder of the programme includes another Schumann work, the Symphony No.2, Op.61, C major as well as Kodály’s Dances of Galanta.
The remaining three weeks of the season will be presided over by the JPO’s principal guest conductor, Bernhard Gueller.

On 25 and 26 May, two of the JPO’s very own horn heavyweights, Shannon Armer and Peter Griffiths, in concert with the orchestra, will treat audiences to a rendition of Haydn’s Double Horn Concerto and Saint-Saëns’ Morceau de concert, Horn and Orchestra, Op.94. The JPO will also perform Fauré’s Pelleas et Melisande, Op.80: Suite and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.1, Op.13, G minor (Winter Daydreams: Réverie d’hiver).

Currently completing her Masters degree in music at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, 23-year-old South African violinist Avigail Bushakevitz is unquestionably an exciting talent who has a bright future ahead of her on the international stage. She will be performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto, No.2, Op.63, G minor with the JPO on 1 and 2 June, as well as on 5 June in Pretoria. The orchestra will also play De Falla’s Three Cornered Hat, Suite 1 and Mozart’s Symphony No.39, K.543, E-flat minor.
This concert is preceded by a performance by the JPO Academy Orchestra – an incubator initiative that is grooming the next generation of musicians to enter the ranks of the JPO – conducted by Sonja Bass. They will perform Finlandia by Sibelius.

The JPO’s final symphony concerts in its 2011 second season will be on 8 and 9 June. Gueller wields the baton for the Bach Suite (Overture) No.1, BWV 1066, C major and a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.5, C-sharp major as part of the JPO’s ongoing commemoration of the centenary of the Austrian composer’s death.

The Wednesday and Thursday night concerts at the Linder Auditorium start at 8pm, with the periodic Unisa Sunday-afternoon concerts starting at 3pm. Tickets are available at Computicket from 15 April or at the door. For more information, call 011 789 2733, e-mail info@jpo.co.za or visit http://www.jpo.co.za/.

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South African Fashion week took place last night at Shine Studios

Date: 09 April
Article; Madoda Ntuli

Black  Coffee was SA Fashion week grand  opener, the show promised more to come with  great anticipation, the fashion crawlers of the industry had come in numbers to experience South Africa's great fashion talents on the night, the show was also graced by few celebrities, the likes of Penny Lebyane, Fashinista Simphiwe Majola, Iko Mash and selimathunzi presenter Siza Beda.

Vodacome and Jamson as well as Orbit Sugar free Chewing gum sponsored this year's fashion show with Jamson hosting after party until the wee of the night, the show will continue until sunday afternoon at the same venue at Shine Studios