Ballet D'Jerri

Jersey's National Ballet presents a special preview performance of its next upcoming production.

Ballet d’Jèrri is coming to Guernsey stages for the first time with a striking double bill of Whiteout by Marco Goecke and Deliberate Mistake by Asier Edeso Eguia. Based in Jersey, the company aims to present unique, thought-provoking choreographic work that speaks to the island’s heritage while connecting with audiences far beyond its shores.

Whiteout by Marco Goecke is a powerful, physically charged work that showcases his signature movement language—sharp, intricate, comic, and sad. The work premiered at Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in 2008, and has since been performed by companies all around the world. This hauntingly bittersweet piece is the perfect introduction to the work of one of the giants of the dance industry and an incomparable artist.

Deliberate Mistake, one of Ballet d’Jèrri’s first commissioned original works, is a poetic reflection on Jersey’s history, identity, and collective memory. Co-created by choreographer Asier Edeso Eguia and artist Yulia Makeyeva, with an original score by Ilia Osokin, the work takes inspiration from Jersey’s knitting traditions—where deliberate flaws in knitted jumpers once helped identify lost sailors—transforming this idea into a deeply moving metaphor for community, fragility, and resilience.

This recital will be previewed first in Guernsey with an abridged technical setup, ahead of performances at home in Jersey and on tour in Paris. Join us for this landmark performance as Ballet d’Jèrri makes its Guernsey debut, bringing its distinctive artistic voice to new audiences.