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Dance fans are in for a treat when Cape Town City Ballet's Amaranth opens on Saturday, 22 June 2019. We talk to choreographer Christopher L Huggins about his work included in the triple bill...
Christopher L Huggins has a family tree so extensive, its graphic reproduction can no longer hang on the wall. Instead, it sits on the floor in his hallway – a talking point for guests who visit. “I’d say that’s my family tree! And I was dead centre. Centre stage. In the spotlight. I thought that was funny,” he laughs. “We have like 400 living members of our family right now, four or five generations,” he muses. “Every five years, there’s like another 100 names that have to go up on there. It’s crazy.”
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Attack, leave and repeat
We’re talking family, mothers, skin, diet, ageing and cancer. Looking at old portraits, it’s clear who Huggins gets his smile from. “My mother was so beautiful that all the men in Boston used to chase her. They used to call her the Belle of Sugar Hill,” he says.
One of nine children, Huggins trained under Andrea Herbert-Major, Danny Sloan and Martha Armstrong Gray before joining Alvin Ailey American...