PHOTOS | Ballet with a horse named Beauty

EVENT: Ai

Jackï Job is known for her innovation and creativity when it comes to dance. Now, in a new production titled Ai, she once again breaks boundaries.

Ai, meaning ""love" in Japanese, is a Butoh ballet which is a form of dance theatre.

The show centres on the unusual duet between Job and a horse named Beauty.

“Within their meeting, the majestic and the mundane sensitively merge, and love is reimagined. Surrounded by green, audiences can delight in a dance between animal and human natures,” a summary for the show reads.

The show will be performed in the garden of the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town.

Dancer Jackï Job and Beauty perform in Ai. (Photo: Zaghra Zoutenberg)

Dancer Jackï Job and Beauty perform in Ai. (Photo: Zaghra Zoutenberg)

In Ai, Job also performs with acclaimed French ballet dancer Alexandre Bourdat, who has recently finished a performance season at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

She joins forces with her long-time collaborator, award-winning classical pianist José Dias, whose talents are regularly seen with the Cape Town Opera, and most recently in Master Class, which features Sandra Prinsloo as Maria Callas.