Dream team: Guillaume Diop, from Paris, and Monike Cristina (partnering him), will dance in Joburg Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty this weekend. Photos: Lauge Sorensen and James Bort
This is a contemporary fairy tale. There are back-and-forth Instagram likes, a DM from the princess to the prince, with an unusual request, and a happy ending.
IRL, it actually happened.
We are at the French ambassador’s residence, a croissant’s throw from the Union Buildings in Pretoria. I’m being filled in about the real-life events that brought young French…