{"id":98596,"date":"2018-04-20T06:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/?p=98596"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:11:42","slug":"cape-town-city-ballet-sweet-service-award-artscape-sour-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-city-ballet-sweet-service-award-artscape-sour-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town City Ballet Sweet Service Award: Artscape Sour Service Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Sweet Service Award<\/b> goes to Cape Town City Ballet, for its magnificent and moving performance of \u2018Mozart & Salieri\u2019 at the Artscape Opera House. The costume and set design were superb, and the music of mostly Mozart moved me to tears. It was in very sharp contrast to the disappointing performance of \u2018The Cotton Club\u2019 by the same dance company. <\/p>\n

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\"\"The Sour Service Award<\/b> goes to Artscape, for its disappointing performance of \u2018The Cabaret Club\u2019 by the Cape Town City Ballet, with a crass screechingly loud live band that created the music that the ballet dancers performed to. There was no set design whatsoever, and the stage of the Artscape Theatre felt bare, even when all dancers were on the stage. I asked to see the production director, and Robin Poole came to chat to me almost immediately. I asked him whether the music volume could be toned down, but he replied that I should move further back, but I did not want to, as I take great care to book seats in the middle of the front row. He kindly refunded my ticket money, despite my protest, as I did want to see the second half too. While chatting to some patrons, a plainclothes man presenting himself as Security, demanded that I hand over my phone, so that he could remove the photographs that I had taken at the start of the performance. I refused and when he got heavy and threatening, I decided that the Universe had spoken, and that I should leave.  The bullying left an extra bad taste, in addition to a very poor performance, nothing of the standard of those created by Sean Bovim\u2019s dance company in the past.<\/p>\n

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog. Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at chrisvonulmenstein [at] gmail.com. Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.<\/b><\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, WhaleTales Blog: www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog Tel +27 082 55 11 323 Twitter:@Ulmenstein Facebook: Chris von Ulmenstein Instagram: @Chris_Ulmenstein<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Sweet Service Award goes to Cape Town City Ballet, for its magnificent and moving performance of \u2018Mozart & Salieri\u2019 at the Artscape Opera House. The costume and set design were superb, and the music of mostly Mozart moved me to tears. It was in very sharp contrast to the disappointing performance of \u2018The Cotton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,35527,1918,32565],"tags":[6876,32378,36874,13677,36872,36824,36875,1528],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t