Ballet Nights Returns to Cadogan Hall in Glowing Form DecaDance was the 10th London iteration of the Ballet Nights brand, now comfortably installed in Chelsea’s Cadogan Hall. Having seen all its predecessors, I feel confident in stating that it was the best so far. The brainchild of former dancer Jamiel Devernay-Laurence, Ballet Nights’ founder and […]
Ballet Nights, The New Year’s Day Concert
Ballet Nights’ Newest Project Rings in 2026 Ballet Nights hit the ground running just over two years ago as “a new way of seeing dance”, in the words of its go-getting founder, Jamiel Devernay-Laurence. It has come a long way, grown and evolved, and its first New Year’s Day Concert, which rang in 2026 at […]
Ballet Nights at Cadogan Hall
They say the best laid plans go awry, and so it proved for me on the evening of 10th September, when my carefully laid plan to reach Cadogan Hall in good time for Ballet Nights 009 – Bound in Motion unravelled spectacularly. In an attempt to beat the odds on underground strike day, I allocated one hour and 40 minutes for a direct bus journey that should normally take 40 minutes maximum. However, a combination of rain, massively engorged traffic slowed down by ubiquitous roadworks, and temperamental buses (one broke down, others failed to arrive, others still stopped halfway) meant it took two and half hours including a very long walk across London to get there. Obviously very, very late.