Dance up close. Ballet Nights launches in London’s Docklands

A new season mixing classical, neoclassical and contemporary dance, well-known works and new choreography gets off to a fine start

Dance up close and personal: Jamiel Devernay-Laurence talks about Ballet Nights

David Mead talks to the artistic director of Ballet Nights, a new season of dance this autumn at Lanterns Studio Theatre in London’s Canary Wharf

A picture of war, resilience and hope: United Ukrainian Ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s Wartime Elegy

Danced to piano and string compositions by Valentin Silvestrov, and traditional folk music, it’s a picture of the people behind the headlines