CAPE TOWN 1997



From her travels to competitions as a Judge, Evelyn Koop brought back an invitation to send some of her gymnasts to Cape Town to perform and compete. After selection and training, a team of six travelled to South Africa in October, 1997:

Gloria Hui, Heli Oder, Vanessa Livingston, Jessie Sorell, Susanna Wadsten and Melissa Jung.
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This view from the airplane, flying in over Cape Town, made the girls insist on a swim directly on arrival!
At Cape Point "where the two oceans meet"

Posing on Signal Hill, in front of the Table Mountain

Gloria and Melissa in a van driven by J-P Houssiere (married to the Cape Town team's coach)

The Hottentott-Holland High School (HHH) where they competed and also had a very successful performance

The students there collected pop cans to raise money

March-in for the competition

The team with Mr. and Mrs. Houssiere (HHH coach)

Team interviewed on radio
Performances at other schools
Since October is springtime in South Africa, the flowers were in full bloom

The national flower : Protea

Of course, this is wine country, too
The farewell party in Cape Town (left) and 
(above) the post-trip party at Jessie's (top left with Susanna, Vanessa and Gloria below)

And the HHH RG club from Cape Town came to visit us in 1998:

Parents Livingston, Jung, Sorell and Hui waiting at the gym for the...
... tired team from Cape Town. The Expressions met them with a buffet prepared by the parents, then each one brought at least one guest home. 
The eight HHH-members (on the left) and the Expressions performed
(and posed for each other!) at a school in Toronto:

HHH team posing with coach and competition awards

HHH coach Laurette Houssiere (right) with assistant and performer Suzette.

HHH delegation with Mayor Mel Lastman at Toronto City Hall


The Canadian and South African teams performed at a Harbourfront event and got
to take a boat tour of the harbour at sunset.

HHH team with coach at Livingston's BBQ
(Melicia at left, top row)

Farewell party at Evelyn Koop's home
At the airport, wearing empty balls as hats.

At the World Gymnaestrada in Sweden 1999, the Expressions met one of the gymnasts from Cape Town who visited Canada in 1998:

 

On the right: Susanna, Melicia and Gloria -->

And at the World Gymnaestrada in Portugal 2003, we met Melicia again!

 

<-- Melicia, on the left with her parents.

"THE FOUR ELEMENTS" 1997

For  the 1997 performance at the Premiere Dance Theatre a new work was added: "The Four Elements" with each part created by a different choreographer.
"Fire" (choreography: Juliana Sherk)

Jesse and Ann

Vanessa

"Air"(choreography: Valdimir Yablakov)

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gloria


Gloria, Jessie                                          Katrin, Talvi H.
 "Water" (choreography: Brian Foley)

Vanessa & Talvi in front of the company
"Earth" (choreography: Don Calderwood)
The Company in training

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