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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.

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