Burn the Floor: not your granny’s ballroom!

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Don’t miss seeing Burn the Floor.

BEFORE there was Dirty Dancing…  before there was Saturday Night Fever… before ballroom dancing became cool with reality TV, there was the real deal – the dancers tearing up the dance floor, in an “international style” competition since 1920.

International style competitions involve five Latin American dances and five classic ballroom dances. From this competition came a theatre production so fabulous, so hot that it’s called Burn the Floor.

Only the fanciest foot moves and tidiest twirls make it on this stage … and they’re coming  the iZulu Theatre at the Sibaya Casino in Durban from June 8 to 19. Continue reading

Groove to the music of the 70s at the Hexagon

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Remember the Seventies? The period of great changes in the music scene, when icons were made, horizons were stretched and musicians broke out of their boxes and went where their dreams (and substances) took them!

Yes. Then revel in a bit of nostalgia when the Hexagon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg hosts This is the Seventies in the Hexagon Dive on January 29, 30 and 31 and February 4, 5 and 6. Continue reading