The tickets were donated to the Benoni Aurora Rotaract Club by the Joburg Theatre.
Students and dance teachers from the Zama Montessori School, Kids Haven, community volunteers and members of the Rotaract club excitedly watched this classical ballet in two acts.
Applauded as one of the greatest of the 19th century ballet classics, on a par with Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère is a saga of love, betrayal and revenge, played out against the splendours of the palaces and temples of Ancient India.
The ballet tells the story of Nikiya, an Indian temple dancer, and her doomed love for the warrior Solor.
Brimming with great classical dancing, this is ballet in the grand tradition.
Not seen in South Africa since the 1990s, Joburg Theatre Ballet’s glittering new production of La Bayadère, marking a first for the company, is staged by international ballet producer Mario Gallizzi, from Argentina.
Everyone who made this evening possible, including Dirk Badenhorst, (CEO of the Johannesburg Ballet), Lindsay McDonald, (Johannesburg Ballet public relations officer), Richard Thompson (photographer), Monique Camacho, a doctor who donated all the sweet snack hampers for the children for the evening, and the Benoni Aurora Rotaract Club members, who transported and hosted the children for the evening, were thanked.
For more information on the Benoni Aurora Rotaract Club visit their facebook site www.facebook.com/BenoniAuroraRotaract.
