Ballet Nights returns to Cadogan Hall to celebrate its third birthday, bringing another world-class programme of dance to the Cadogan stage.

Three years of celebrating the artists, championing the artform, and building a nationally touring movement.

This milestone edition opens a new dance season, and arrives as Ballet Nights' first London show since touring through Leicester, Edinburgh and Glasgow over the summer, bringing the platform's growing national footprint back home to where it began. One night only, as always curating a night of dance that exists once, and is remembered long after.

This edition welcomes the return of World Ballet Stars Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke of The Royal Ballet and Opera, alongside World Stars and Lead Principals of English National Ballet, Sangeun Lee and Gareth Haw - a rare convergence of two of the UK's leading companies on a single stage. Royal Ballet Soloist Harris Bell returns to the Ballet Nights stage, joined by a landmark moment for the platform's mission to bring international voices to London: the UK debut of Cape Town City Ballet, the first South African company to perform on a Ballet Nights stage.

Featuring:

YASMINE NAGHDI & REECE CLARKE

World Ballet Stars of The Royal Ballet & Opera

SANGEUN LEE & GARETH HAW

Lead Principals of English National Ballet

The UK Debut of

CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET

HARRIS BELL

Soloist of The Royal Ballet

JAMES WILTON DANCE

Contemporary Dance Powerhouse and Social Media Sensation

SANGEUN LEE & GARETH HAW

World Stars & Lead Principals of English National Ballet

ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL

Celebrating New Futures in Dance

ANAISH YILMA-PARMAR

In His Debut as Ballet Nights Host & Compère

“Eclectic and adventurous” The Times

★★★★★ “Full marks for this electric and thoroughly enjoyable night out.” LondonTheatre1

PROGRAMME

Part i

Quartet Concrète

Repertoire to be announced

Spring Waters Pas De Deux

Performed by Yasmine Naghdi & Reece Clarke – Principal Stars of The Royal Ballet

Choreographer: Asaf Messerer

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov

With Thanks to The Royal Ballet

Pie Jesu

Danced by Hannah Ward and Leusson Muniz

Choreographed by Garry Trinder

Produced by Tracy Li

Composer Gabriel Fauré

The UK Debut of Cape Town City Ballet

A New Commission

Performed by Harris Bell

Choreographed by Travis Clausen-Knight, PCK Dance

BREATH

Choreographed & Performed by Liam Woodvine

A Ballet Nights New Commission made possible by The Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement

On The Nature of Daylight

Performed by Sangeun Lee & Gareth Haw

Choreography & Concept David Dawson

Composer Max Richter

Costume by Yumiko Takeshima

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INTERVAL

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Part ii

‘Largo al factotum’ from ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’

Performed by Quartet Concrète

Baritone Patrick Keefe

Composed by Gioachino Rossini

Arranged for String Quartet by Dominic Stokes

Orpheus in the Underworld

Danced by Hannah Ward and Leusson Muniz

Choreographed by Veronica Paeper

Produced by Tracy Li

Music Arr. By Michael Tuffin

Costume by Peter Cazalet

Repertoire To Be Announced

English National Ballet School

Excerpt From "LOKI"

Danced by James Wilton & Sarah Jane-Taylor

Choreographed by James Wilton Dance

Excerpts from Elite Syncopations

“Stoptime Rag” & “Bethena Rag Waltz”

Performed by Yasmine Naghdi & Reece Clarke

Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan

Composer Scott Joplin

Costume Ian Spurling

With thanks to the MacMillan Trust

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Compère

Anaish Yilma Parmar

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