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Joburg Ballet at SA Fashion Week

On 22 October Black Coffee and Joburg Ballet will take to the runway together, bringing fashion and dance into a bold new conversation.

The latest collection by Jacques van der Watt comes alive through the bodies of Joburg Ballet’s artists in a performance conceived and choreographed by Naledi Award-winning choreographer and Joburg Ballet Soloist Chloé Blair.

The runway becomes a stage. The garment becomes movement. And the dancer becomes both performer and muse.

Black Coffee’s distinctive language of form, structure and silhouette meets the precision, strength and fluidity of ballet. Every line, gesture and shape becomes part of the design. The result is a living conversation between the architecture of the garment and the architecture of the body.

Chloé Blair
Date:

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Location:

The Forum, 7th Floor, Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg

Costs:

Tickets from R375

A first for Joburg Ballet

The collaboration marks Joburg Ballet’s debut at South African Fashion Week during the company’s 25th anniversary year, adding another milestone to its celebration of dance and creative expression.

For Artistic Director Dane Hurst, it offers an opportunity to look at ballet and fashion from a different perspective:

“This is more than a runway. It is an invitation to see ballet differently and to experience dance through the lens of fashion, and fashion through the body in motion.”

Ballet South African Fashion Week

Hurst also highlights the broader connection between fashion, photography and movement. Each offers a different way of seeing and understanding the human body, including its identity, culture, power and possibilities.

Date

24 - 25 Oct

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Tickets

Webtickets

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Time

14:30pm & 19:30pm

Venue

Artscape Theatre

Joburg Ballet at the SANDT Gala

Join Joburg Ballet Principal Artists Monike Cristina and Revil Yon at the prestigious SANDT Gala as they celebrate an exceptional milestone—their 10th year with Joburg Ballet.

Representing the company on the Artscape Opera House stage in Cape Town, Cristina and Yon will perform excerts from La Traviata choregraphed by Veronica Paeper as part of a landmark celebration bringing together eight South African dance companies for the first time. They will appear alongside principal dancers from Dutch National Ballet, invited as special international guest artists, and leading performers from across the country.

Accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gala programme presents an exhilarating blend of classical ballet, contemporary dance and musical theatre. Audiences can look forward to works by internationally renowned choreographers George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Rudi van Dantzig and Ernst Meisner, alongside acclaimed South African choreographers Veronica Paeper and Sean Bovim.

The Gala will also feature artists from Cape Town City Ballet, Cape Ballet Africa, WGRUV Dance Company, Jazzart Dance Theatre, LAMTA and WFTC, together with a competition winner from the 2026 South African International Ballet Competition.

Celebrating the artistry of Joburg Ballet’s Principal Artists within a spectacular gathering of local and international dance talent, the SANDT Gala promises an unforgettable evening of movement, music and theatrical excellence.

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