Burn The Floor returns to SA
Burn The Floor, the show that revolutionised the image of dance, returns to South Africa for the fourth time.
The show will be on stage at the Opera Theatre of The South African State Theatre in Pretoria from April 27th to May 15th followed by a stint at the Baxter Theatre at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town from May 19th to June 5th.
Cast members will also visit the iZulu Theatre at the Sibaya Casino in Durban from June 8th to 19th.
The original concept of Burn The Floor grew from an electric display of ballroom and Latin dancing at Sir Elton John’s 50th birthday party in London, March 1997. There, producer Harley Medcalf discovered the ballroom dance world and its charismatic people, with their deep intensity, commitment, discipline, burning passion and total love of the ballroom art form.
Initially, Harley’s idea of a new theatrical ballroom production sent shock waves through the ballroom dancing establishment. For decades, ballroom competitions had been performed behind closed doors, as a pastime for the privileged. And well before reality television embraced it with such shows as Dancing with The Stars and Strictly Come Dancing
The show Burn The Floor opened in England in 1999. A decade later, after visiting thirty countries and over one hundred and sixty cities worldwide, it achieved its long standing dream, to bring Ballroom to Broadway - appearing at the Longacre Theatre in New York, followed by two hugely successful seasons in London’s West End.
Burn The Floor has the reputation of being the world’s toughest dance show and the dancers are handpicked to embrace a new Latin American feel. The international cast of dance champions now includes the sensational South Africans, Johannes Radebe and Kylee Brown.