Jamiel Devernay-Laurence

BALLET NIGHTS are thrilled to announce that Reece Clarke, Principal of The Royal Ballet, will be joining our world premiere programme this September. This is not just a performance; it's an experience that further intertwines the legacy of The Royal Ballet with the innovation of BALLET NIGHTS, and we are grateful to Artistic Director Kevin O'Hare at The Royal Ballet for offering us another principal artist to join our opening programme. Reece will be lighting up the stage alongside the enchanting Melissa Hamilton in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto Pas De Deux on Saturday, 30th September, after the phenomenal Ryoichi Hirano will be captivating audiences on Friday, 29th to celebrate his 40th birthday. In just 25 days, I will re-introduce you to our full cast of star artists live on stage, and the world will be introduced to our World Premiere. I can't wait to see you there! Join us in this unparalleled ballet experience and be part of an evening that will be talked about for years to come. Book Your Tickets Now Your BALLET NIGHTS Compere Jamiel Devernay-Laurence

🎭 Meet BALLET NIGHTS Choreographer, and First Artist of The Royal Ballet Joshua Junker, as he re-stages his work '324A' with freelance dance artist Felicity Chadwick.

BEHIND THE SCENES with STEVEN MCRAE 🇦🇺 🎭 Meet BALLET NIGHTS headliner and Principal of The Royal Ballet, Steven McRae, as he prepares his world famous tap performance of Czárdás - featuring maestro Violinist Vasko Vassilev and Concert Pianist Viktor Erik Emanuel. www.BalletNights.com

BEHIND THE SCENES with VIKTOR ERIK EMANUEL 🎹 🎭 Meet BALLET NIGHTS concert Pianist, and avid photographer, Viktor Erik Emanuel - as he prepares to play 6 virtuosic solo's, 2 ensemble numbers and accompany a work by an emerging choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Joshua Junker. www.BalletNights.com

BEHIND THE SCENES with JORDAN JAMES BRIDGE 🎭 Get an insight into the creative process of London's new mover, as Jordan James Bridge prepares a new creation for our September World premiere of the BALLET NIGHTS and our pioneering new dance format. www.BalletNights.com

The BALLET NIGHTS PODCAST 003 - Luke Ahmet 🔔 Premiering Worldwide at 6pm UK Thursday! Our third episode celebrates Olivier nominated Dance Artist, Luke Ahmet, delving into the inner world of performers, their emotions, and reflections while they are on stage... and off. Luke's diverse career at companies including Rambert Dance Company, Studio Wayne MacGregor, Scottish Ballet, K Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet has seen him dance on stages across the world, teach & coach regularly and more recently acting as Rehearsal Director for many choreographers and setting works internationally.

The BALLET NIGHTS PODCAST 002 - Jordan James Bridge Premiering Worldwide at 6pm UK Tonight! In our second episode, we meet new London voice, Dancer , Choreographer, Filmmaker and Director Jordan James Bridge. After an exciting year of dancing and making on stage and on screen, Jordan shares his less orthodox route into dance, how he has developed his unique movement style and about his dream dinner with David Attenborough... See Jordan Perform in our Autumn 2023 Premiere by clicking below BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW at : www.balletnights.com/tickets

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Hello BalletCo Forum, The BALLET NIGHTS Podcast will be launching tomorrow, with our first guest and the inspiration behind BALLET NIGHTS - Constance Devernay-Laurence , This years winner of Best Classical Female Performance at the National Dance Awards. If you want to tune in, and witness our premiere live at 6pm, you can subscribe now via the link below, and hit the bell icon to ensure you are notified the moment our content goes live. https://www.youtube.com/@BALLETNIGHTS We hope you will enjoy hearing directly from the artists themselves in our new format, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on where we can go next! Your Host, Jamiel

I would like to take a moment to thank everyone in this thread, and those who have been DMing me to help us get the ticket page to where it needs to be, and during our recent spell of technical difficulty. All 3 programmes are now available and should be easier to comprehend and book, including what is included in each of the Ticket Tiers. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/balletnights The feedback from members of this forum is extremely valuable, and I look forward to releasing more info this week, including the launch of our podcast series. Jamiel

www.BalletNights.com En Pointe Insights with Steven McRae You were the first headline artist that we approached about the relaunch of BALLET NIGHTS with our Autumn Season 2023. What was it about the project that stood out for you most and why did you choose to join us at our launch? I am always passionate about spreading our art form further, and I was instantly drawn to the energy of the team behind BALLET NIGHTS and their desire to attract and to appeal to new audiences. I also saw it as an incredible platform to start exploring ideas of my own, and those two factors were a very simple reason for me to say yes! - BALLET NIGHTS is a new start-up with an entrepreneurial mindset at its core. You are already known for achieving a business degree and master’s alongside your fulltime career as a Principal dancer at The Royal Ballet, and so what is it about the structure of BALLET NIGHTS that you're interested in from that perspective? Well, I love the idea that everybody behind BALLET NIGHTS is thinking a little bit outside the box and are approaching these series of performances in a different and complimentary way to a more traditional format. Rather than just relying on word of mouth, the team are going out there and reaching beyond the typical circles that go and watch dance, while taking care not alienating the people who are the traditional fanbase. Creating a platform that is thinking of new ways to excite ballet audiences and invite them to buy tickets for the further dance programmes of associated artist goes down to marketing – and I'm obsessed with that - Learning and trying to understand more about what it is that audiences really want and we find that balance of challenging them with new ideas but not pushing them away. I feel that the team behind BALLET NIGHTS are fully aware of this and are doing absolutely everything to branch out as strong as they possibly can. - From tap shoes, surprise guests and featuring live musicians on stage, BALLET NIGHTS is thrilled to welcome your creativity to all 3 of the programmes in our Autumn Season. Why have you chosen to perform these works? BALLET NIGHTS for me is really an opportunity for audiences to have a taste of different voices from our art form, and our art form is the world of dance. I see dance as all styles, and for me is just one word that encapsulates everything, so I've never seen myself as a ballet dancer or a tap dancer or a musical theatre dancer. I'm just a dancer and when I have an opportunity to have another voice of mine heard I want to explore that opportunity to its full potential. Putting the ballet shoes aside and donning my tap shoes for an event like this does not mean putting aside ballet, and I tend to amalgamate the styles into my own unique voice. Having those complimentary opportunities away from the mainstage of the Royal Opera House to explore and still enjoy those other forms of dance is so vital for me. - BALLET NIGHTS is that complementary platform where audiences can go when they aren’t at the Opera House or Sadler’s Wells and experience dance in a different way to what they get on those main stages. One of the things about the format is that alongside telling a narrative story through the dancing, we are also telling the story of the dancers performing. What will you be telling us and what is your story? When they're given the opportunity, dancers are very good at sharing their own stories and what I think you'll see at BALLET NIGHTS it's that chance for all of those individual artists to explore another sides to themselves on stage, aided by the compère, the BALLET NIGHTS Podcast and the behind the scenes moments shared online before and after. My own story through dance was one of unknowns. I didn't know you could have a career in dance and I didn't know it was a something that you could do for a job until I was 16 years old - and I still have kind of held on to that unknown world as I've developed. Throughout my career I have always tried to keep myself open to the multiple opportunities and possibilities that exist with dance, and I think that's what you really experience and witness when you watch BALLET NIGHTS. - You can watch Steven perform up close and without compromise in the BALLET NIGHTS Autumn Season 2023 TICKETS Sign up to receive our En Pointe Insights blog, The Ballet Nights Podcast and more, here: EXCLUSIVE ACCESS

Shooting the Ballet Nights Podcast - pictured here, Episode 002 with Jordan James Bridge.

ALAS this was my own error and not my team! All correct on Ticket Site I have now ensured I cant edit once out there it would appear, unless our forum admins are able to somehow? In terms of travel, I highly recommend either the new Elizabeth Line Station if wanting to eat before. DLR South Quay however is right on our doorstep. Jamiel

SIGN UP TO EXCLUSIVE ACCESS BE THE FIRST TO SEE, HEAR & EXPERIENCE The En Pointe Insights Blog - Launching Tomorrow with Steven McRae Behind The Scenes Mini Docs - Launching July 2023 The BALLET NIGHTS Podcast - Launching July 2023 https://www.balletnights.co.uk/exclusiveaccess

BALLET NIGHTS 003 24th & 25th November PROGRAMME Part i Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G Minor Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel Medora Variation ACT II, Corsaire Performed by Ivana Bueno Choreographed by Marius Petipa Music Adolphe Adam With thanks to English National Ballet 324a Performed by Felicity Chadwick Choreographer Joshua Junker Composer J.S. Bach Piano Viktor Erik Emanuel Wind Performed by Laurel Dalley Smith, Yorke Dance Project Choreographer Robert Cohan Costume Robert Cohan Czárdás Choreographed & Performed by Steven McRae Violin Vasko Vasiliev Piano Viktor Erik Emanuel "A virtuosic explosion where the lines blur between Classical Ballet, Tap and Live Musician" - INTERVAL - Part ii Chopin Barcarolle in F# Major, OP.60 Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel Esmerelda Variation Performed by Ivana Bueno Choreography Marius Petipa Music Jules Perrot and Cesare Pugni New Solo Choreographed & Performed by Yasser D’Oquendo Proximity Choreographed & Performed by Pett|Clausen-Knight Composers Albenese Design by Pett|Clausen-Knight Don Quixote Suite "A BALLET NIGHTS FAVOURITE!" Performed by Katja Khaniukova & Aitor Arrieta Coca Choreography Marius Petipa Composer Ludwig Minkus – Compère Jamiel Devernay-Laurence BOOK YOUR TICKETS https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/balletnights/ballet-nights-003/e-vmmdoo

BALLET NIGHTS 002 28th & 28th October PROGRAMME 002 Part i Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Chopin Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel New Creation Performed by Musa Motha Choreographed & Performed by Musa Motha Music To Be Announced... Of Silence Performed by James Stephens & Winnie Dias Choreographer Andrew McNicol Composer Pēteris Vasks Excerpt from Meta 4 Performed by Dancers of Yorke Dance Project Choreographer Bella Lewitzky Composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez Costume Bella Lewitzky Newly Commissioned Work Choreographed & Performed by Steven McRae & Surprise Guests… - INTERVAL - Part ii L'isle joyeuse, L. 106, Debussy Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel Newly Commissioned Work Performed by Constance Devernay-Laurence Choreographer Jordan James Bridge Supported by Erased Tapes Records Solo Choreographed & Performed by Yasser D’Oquendo Music by To be announced In The Absence Choreographed & Performed by Pett|Clausen-Knight Composer Greg Haines Design Pett|Clausen-Knight Metamorphosis 1 Performed by Sangeun Lee & Gareth Haw Choreographer David Dawson Composer Phillip Glass Costume Eddie Grundy & David Dawson Lighting by Bert Dalhuijsen – Ballet Nights Compère Jamiel Devernay-Laurence BOOK YOUR TICKETS https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/balletnights/ballet-nights-002/e-ebboxl

BALLET NIGHTS 001 29th & 30th September PROGRAMME 001 Part i Variation Brilliantes, Op.12, Chopin Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel Dying Swan Performed by Melissa Hamilton Choreography Michel Fokine Cello Moira Hartley Piano Viktor Erik Emanuel Composer Saint-Saëns You Will Get Your Wants Performed by George Liang & Julie Nunes Choreographer Gavin McCaig Composer Oliver Davis with thanks to Northern ballet Kenneth Macmillan’s Isadora (excerpts) Performed by Luke Ahmet & Amy Thake Yorke Dance Project Choreographer Kenneth Macmillan Costume Barry Kay Czárdás Choreographed & Performed by Steven McRae Violin Vasko Vasiliev Piano Viktor Erik Emanuel "A virtuosic explosion where the lines blur between Classical Ballet, Tap and Live Musician" - INTERVAL - Part ii Ballade No 2. In B Minor, Liszt Performed by Viktor Erik Emanuel Gamzatti Variation, Le Bayadère Performed by Constance Devernay-Laurence Choreographer Marius Petipa New Solo Choreographed & Performed by Jordan James Bridge Music by Rival Consoles A new Ballet Nights Commission, supported by Erased Tapes Records All in Passing Choreographer Peter Leung Composer Nicholas Robert Thayer Danced by New English Ballet theatre Original Lighting Design Andrew Ellis Kenneth Macmillan’s Concerto Second Movement Pas de Deux Performed by Melissa Hamilton & Ryoichi Hirano Choreographer Kenneth Macmillan Composer Shostakovich Costume Jürgen Rose With thanks to the Macmillan Trust, and The Royal Ballet Company – Ballet Nights Compère Jamiel Devernay-Laurence BOOK TICKETS https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/balletnights/ballet-nights-001/e-lgmopa

HI Peanut68, ABSOLUTELY! we are shooting those today and tomorrow with some of our Artists - as I type one going on now - and more over the coming month. I will be creating a new thread for the podcast, launching mid to late July, and one for the blog, launching tomorrow, and if you sign up here you will also receive an email notifying you of whats out as-it-happens - www.BalletNights.com You can expect "En Pointe" with Steven McRae Tomorrow, and Melissa Hamilton Thursday The Artists can't wait to share their stories with you! Jamiel

Hi Capybara, Annabel and Silke, The relaunch of BALLET NIGHTS goes beyond any single show, and as a new startup we are in the process of introducing audiences to a brand new 'Ballet Universe,' designed to enhance audience experiences beyond the traditional platforms, and provide a complimentary outing to those opera house main stages. This is a lot to explain in any single post, and I highly recommend attending my webinar with The London Ballet Circle in August where I can address many of these questions directly. However to see these prices at face value is a bit misleading, and each of our seating positions - REGULAR, SILVER, GOLD, STAGESIDE - includes an array of experiences and extras - yet ALL include viewing dance up close and in the Lanterns Studio Theatre "Theatrical Widescreen" format. With our Stageside seating, you will not find an experience close short of dancing in the work itself. During the year that ENO and ENB were appearing in articles regarding why they aren't needed if we already have an RO or RB - My immediate thought out loud was .... "How many football stadiums are there in London? Are they short of audience/support/fans? What do they charge for their experience?" There are of course a wealth of topics in response, but the thing that strikes me most is the fact that we ALL know that if the ball goes in the net... its a GOAL! My mission is to now create that level of experience but in a different arena - for existing ballet fans and new dance audience alike to celebrate. This is a new pastime for those interested in Ballet, and Ballets biggest fans, and not something that can be made fair comparison with existing platforms and pricing - as many of our former audience members can attest to. As the 'Jazz Club' for dance, and beyond our uniquely compèred evenings of Classical Ballet, Neo-Classical Ballet and Contemporary dance - there are chances to see the performers live in rehearsal & tech (to be announced), on screen via our BTS features coming this July/August, to see and listen to via our podcast and read about in our "En Pointe" Blog. Then once in the Live Show experience of BALLET NIGHTS 00X you are led on a journey by the compère, hearing from the artists directly via their personal stories being shared, in new works in which they have not often been seen and in the fully immersive atmosphere of our other star on show each night - the venue. Backstage Pass offers you that chance to meet and mingle with the stars both established, emerging and newly discovered - hear from them directly and meet the wider network of record labels, designers, choreographers and directors who have contributed towards making this new dance pastime what it is. We are not however programming yearlong seasons of dance with a full dance company selling to 2000+ seater auditoriums. That is why our mission is to offer something different in our 300 seater intimate setting. My final thought on the matter would be to see past my own involvement, and look to the entire team of 25+ artists (and growing) who have all collaborated closely on what they want this experience to be for our audiences - with Steven McRae's blog on Tuesday explaining in his own words what he is drawn to the new platform. We are moving beyond costing a single experience, and towards placing a value on celebrating those dance artists all year long. Please do continue to share your thoughts on this, as YOU are the fans and thats who we want getting as much as possible out of the platform. Jamiel

Hi Silke H, I think there may be a confusion here between our 2021 concept launch poster and 2023 Autumn Season of Shows. Please DM me where you found the previous poster info, and I will have my team ensure its removed! Thank you for assisting us during our early setup/announcement phase!

Thank You to all those DMing regarding the release of the BALLET NIGHTS PODCAST, "En Pointe" Blog launching with Steven McRae on Tuesday and our upcoming Youtube Channel content. After months of work in planning, one thing I have realised is that this is alot of NEW at once! By signing up to Exclusive Access you will ensure you hear about what we are up to first, and before anyone outside of my team, so when there is something to 'Know' that is where it will be. At our launch we had dancers announce retirements, announce their choreographic careers and be seen in ever more nuances ways in the up close form factor, and Exclusive Access will be no different. Sign up form can be found at - www.BalletNights.com Jamiel