Cape Ballet Africa – Nurturing Creativity with Classical Grace

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Cape Ballet Africa is inviting applications for the full-time position of Répétiteur, based in Cape Town.

Applications close midnight 30 June 2026.

We are looking for an experienced classical ballet professional with a minimum of five years’ broad experience in traditional classical ballet repertoire. The successful candidate will support the Artistic Director and ballet team in maintaining the company’s artistic excellence, professional standards, and high-quality productions.

This role combines artistic support, rehearsal coaching, dancer development, repertoire preservation, and operational coordination.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading daily rehearsals and supporting artistic operations
Coaching, supporting, and developing company dancers
Staging and rehearsing classical productions to a high professional standard
Preserving and maintaining classical repertoire
Collaborating with artistic, production, and theatre teams
Supporting strategic planning and scheduling
Upholding health and safety standard
Assisting during performance periods, where time flexibility is required

Requirements:

Strong experience with classical ballet repertoire
Experience teaching and coaching professional dancers
Strong leadership, organisation, and communication skills
Experience working in diverse theatre environments
Scheduling management ability
Fluent English
South African applicants only

Start date: Negotiable. Salary: Competitive.

To apply, please send your CV and motivation letter to:

[email protected]

Cape Ballet Africa looks forward to hearing from experienced professionals who are passionate about classical ballet, artistic excellence, and the development of dancers at a professional level.

VISION STATEMENT

Cape Ballet Africa aspires as a ballet & dance company to achieve a proudly African global reputation, through performance excellence and education; to inspire new generations to appreciate an artform that demands much of the human spirit, yet gives much back to the human spirit; to foster a broad appreciation and following within our African diaspora where ballet is not home-grown.

We seek to presciently reimagine how ballet can look in Africa, using the interplay of identity and culture, thereby catalysing a cultural legacy for future generations.

The company seeks to produce performances that are bold, strongly rooted in the classical ballet technique, with exceptional quality front-and-centre as an inherent part of the artistic identity. It is founded in discipline & self-expression, individuality in teamwork, with a distinctive elegance, refinement and audacious grace.

Through core values of a unified spirit of intent, we seek to move seamlessly through the classical canon and contemporary ballet to a sacred space of being through innovation, collaboration, upskilling young talent to a place of exceptional skill, and to keep an open mind to embedded succession planning from the outset.

A composite of all these things, through dance, music & song, are the lifeblood of humanity and the human experience.

VISION STATEMENT

Cape Ballet Africa aspires as a ballet & dance company to achieve a proudly African global reputation, through performance excellence and education; to inspire new generations to appreciate an artform that demands much of the human spirit, yet gives much back to the human spirit; to foster a broad appreciation and following within our African diaspora where ballet is not home-grown.

We seek to presciently reimagine how ballet can look in Africa, using the interplay of identity and culture, thereby catalysing a cultural legacy for future generations.

The company seeks to produce performances that are bold, strongly rooted in the classical ballet technique, with exceptional quality front-and-centre as an inherent part of the artistic identity. It is founded in discipline & self-expression, individuality in teamwork, with a distinctive elegance, refinement and audacious grace.

Through core values of a unified spirit of intent, we seek to move seamlessly through the classical canon and contemporary ballet to a sacred space of being through innovation, collaboration, upskilling young talent to a place of exceptional skill, and to keep an open mind to embedded succession planning from the outset.

A composite of all these things, through dance, music & song, are the lifeblood of humanity and the human experience.

CONTACT US : [email protected]

An associated company of

Anonymous, Carole Brigstocke, Gloria Byrne, Heather Turner & Derek Esterhuizen, Louis van Schalkwyk, Rod Clayton, Sally Graaff, Shaneen Coppin, Stuart Sweeny, The late Patricia Fine

CAPE BALLET AFRICA IS HIRING:

Full-time Répétiteur

Key responsibilities include:

Requirements:

To apply, please send your CV and motivation letter to:

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