The Lindbergh Arts Foundation

Laura Bösenberg & Thomas Thorne in Carmen

Elizabeth Lindbergh (LAF Director)
Keith Mackintosh (CTCB Operations & Artistic Co-ordinator)
George Hill (LAF Cultural Manager)

The CTCB is South Africa's oldest, and one of the most professional ballet companies as well as one of the oldest in the world. The CTCB has a proven track record of delivery of the finest in classical and neo-classical ballets, danced and produced by South Africans, for audiences in the Western Cape, South Africa and abroad. It started in 1934 as the University of Cape Town Ballet Company, it became the CAPAB Ballet Company in 1964 and for the last 11 years has been a non-profit organisation, known as the Cape Town City Ballet (CTCB).

Today, under the directorship of Professor Elizabeth Triegaardt, the CTCB has intensified the original philosophy of opportunity for talent into one that actively searches for and creates training and performance opportunities for young dancers from previously disadvantaged communities. In addition, the CTCB has a committed objective to ensure that the company is at least 95% staffed, both in the artistic and administrative spheres, by South Africans.

The CTCB is renowned throughout South Africa and internationally for the diversity of works in the repertoire and the dancers for their inimitable energy and style - characteristics that stamp the company as uniquely South African. The CTCB has a longstanding practice of developing South African choreographic talent. Many of our foremost South African choreographers were given opportunities early in their careers to create works on the CTCB and its forerunners. These include Veronica Paeper, Christopher Kindo, and Sean Bovim, who still create extensively both here and abroad. The CTCB is committed to the development of choreographers and to the creation of uniquely South African and African ballet.

For more information please visit their website - www.capetowncityballet.org.za