Chance to Dance - about Chantal Stanfield
Chance to Dance - about Chantal Stanfield
Chantal Stanfield is what’s commonly known as a triple-threat in the entertainment industry – she’s an actress of stage and screen, a singer of ballads and pop tunes and a very capable dancer. She colours her cabaret performances with depth and self-deprecation – taking her role as entertainer seriously but never too much so! Chantal also works often as a professional MC and adjudicator for entertainment events.
Ms Stanfield is most instantly recognisable from her television roles – as ‘Celeste/Cecile Whittaker’ in Sewende Laan (where she played the mother of Vince’s love-child!), the intrepid reporter ‘Florys’ in Kyknet-Mnet’s Geraldina die Tweede and more recently in her lead role as the nefarious queen-bee, salon owner and philanderess ‘Dalene Phillips’ in SABC1’s Montana. She is currently in production of the second season of the latter.
Chantal graduated from the University of Cape Town’s Drama School in 2005 with a BA in Theatre and Performance (Bilingual). She’s tread the board in theatrical productions such as Mixed Metaphors, written by Mike Van Graan and directed by Jaco Bouwer, and Addicted to Life, an ABSA anti-drug initiative directed by Lara Foot.
Her musical theatre credits include tribute shows The Rhythm’s Gonna Get You, Station70 and Le Femme. Her own solo cabaret show Ladies First – a tribute to South African divas and later more international stars - was directed by cabaret doyenne Natalia Da Rocha, premiered at Darling Voorkamerfest and had continued runs at Theatre in the Muze. Chantal was selected to tour Menorca, Spain with a tribute show called 80’s All-Stars in which she sang and performed as Whitney Houston in a six-month contract also directed by Natalia Da Rocha.
The last year has seen Chantal perform in more stylised cabaret shows at Vaudeville Burlesque Supper Club, as one-half of ‘The To-Do Sisters’ backing vocalists for Irit Noble and Lu Chase, and travelled to the Seychelles with Irit Noble in a performance-variety show called Little Egypt.
