Jazz Ballet Club

JAZZ BALLET CLUB

Premiere on May 31, 2024 in the Chamber Hall of the Estonian National Opera

Stage Directors and Choreographers: Triinu Upkin, Sergei Upkin
Composer: Dainius Pulauskas (Lithuania)
Musical director and co-arranger: Toivo Unt
Designer: Kristel Linnutaja
Lighting Designer: Rasmus Rembel
Sound direction and Sound:  Martin Mänd, Andro Urb
Repetitors Triinu Upkin, Sergei Upkin
Stage Manager Anton Osul
Dancers of the Estonian National Ballet

The jazz ballet club is back!

The creators of the “Jazz Ballet Club” back in 2017 have rolled up their sleeves and rearranged the cards to bring the nightly adventure of the mafia gang to you in a perfected version. Only on these few nights the Chamber Hall of the theatre is turned into a cosy jazz club where the best band in town will play and the dancers of the Estonian National Ballet shine. The perfected choreography, music and new dancers will give the jazz ballet club colourful characters and their shady deeds a new life.

Mafia Boss: Sergei Upkin
His beautiful wife: Philippa McCann
Their spoiled daughter: Beatriz Domingues
Memory Triinu Upkin
Prodigy gangster: Sacha Barber, Luca Giovanetti
Another cool gangster: Jan Trninič
A Young Man Oscar Pouchoulin
A Young Woman Karite Mirell-Mander, Evelin Agu

Ensemble JBB (Jazz Ballet Band)
Raul Sööt - tenor saxophone
Jason Hunter - trumpet
Nikita Korzoun - alto saxophone/soprano saxophone
Edmunds Altmanis - bass clarinet
Artis Boriss - piano, synthesizer
Rauno Pella - guitar/percussion
Toivo Unt - double bass, bass guitar
Toomas Rull - drums
Martin Trudnikov - accordion
Mai Rosenroth-Unt - violin

Live music by a jazz-ensemble: Toivo Unt (bass)

Welcome to the best jazz club in town!