Closing date announced for international ballet comp

Professional and non-professional dancers from South Africa and around the world will be jetting into the Mother City to participate in the third Cape Town International Ballet Competition, taking place at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town.

To further enhance the standard of the competition and the entrants, the CTIBC co-operates with the South Korea International Dance Competition, the Geneé International Ballet Competition, several top ballet institutions in Cuba and the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) amongst others.

SA dancer to compete in YAGP

Badenhorst has also announced that a South African candidate of his choosing will be given the opportunity to compete in the YAGP in Manhattan next April and to this end the CTIBC will award that dancer a return air ticket to New York at the final Gala performance. For the first time in the history of the biennial CTIBC, male and female participants will be judged separately in both the classical and contemporary sections.

For the junior division, dancers must be between 15 and 18 years of age and for the senior division between 19 and 28 years of age. Competitors may appear either as soloists or as couples. More than 40 dancers from South Africa and overseas have already expressed an interest in participating in the CTIBC.