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One of the cutest scenes in the Lockdown Waltz video is of Brandon Phillips who “conducts” his young daughter, dressed up as a princess, as she jumps on a trampoline. Then she takes charge of the conductor’s baton as her old man tries to keep his composure on said trampoline.
‘Lockdown difficult for performers’
CTCB principal dancer Mariette Opperman says there are giraffes on her snippet in the video because animals and ballet are two of the things she loves the most.
Asked how ballet dancers were coping with the lockdown, Kirstel Paterson, also a principal dancer, said she did yoga, weight training and practised ballet daily to keep her body strong and healthy. She also studied the work of different choreographers on YouTube to keep her mind busy.
Though the lockdown has made life very difficult for performers, all 40 members of CBCT put their best foot forward to create the video.
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By doing this, they – as well as the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, which provided the score – want to relay the message: “We are still here and we’re doing all we can to be ready to perform as soon as the lockdown is lifted.”
