Veronica paeper biography

Biography and career.
She first became a principal dancer with CAPAB, PACT and PACOFS and then a choreographer.
Veronica Paeper is a South African choreographer and dancer.

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Veronica Paeper

Veronica Paeper (1944-). Dancer and choreographer.

Biography and career

Trained at the University of Cape Town School of Ballet, and danced for the ballet companies of all the provincial Performing Arts Councils between 1960 and 1973, including a few years with PACOFS. Having choregographed her first original work (John) in 1972, followed by Theatre of Silence for The Space in 1974, she became resident choreographer for CAPAB in 1974, later becoming Artistic Director of the company (1991). Frank Staff was her partner for many years and he choreographed some of the the first (and still some of the most enthralling) South African ballet's – Mantis Moon (19**), The Rain Queen (19**) and Raka (19**, based on N.P. van Wyk Louw's dramatic poem) while with PACOFS. Paeper danced in the originals, and later restaged them with her own company.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She has been choreographer on numerous other South African works. Including A Midsummer Night's Dream, a ballet version of Romeo and Juliet, the dance prod

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Veronica Paeper (born 9 April 1944) is a South African choreographer and dancer. Paeper was born on 9 April 1944 in Port Shepstone but trained with Dulcie Howes at the University of Cape Town Ballet School after her family moved to Cape Town.[1][2] Although noted as South Africa’s most prolific choreographer,[3] Paeper was also a principal dancer with CAPAB, the PACT Ballet and the Orange Free State Ballet. Paeper choreographed her first ballet, John the Baptist to music by Ernest Bloch for CAPAB in 1972, leading to her appointment as the company’s resident choreographer.[1] In 1991, she became the company director of CAPAB and led the company on the first international tour of a South African ballet company, in 1994.[1] She choreographed over 40 works for the company, including a number of full-length works such as Orpheus in the Underwold, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet and Sylvia in Hollywood. She retired from CAPAB (now Cape Town City Ballet) in 2005.[1] She was awarded a Molteno Gold Medal in 2005 ‘in recognition of her lifetime achievements in the per

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