DANCE fans will be able to enjoy Ballet Under the Stars at a unique summer event.

The performance, in the romantic 17th Century walled Dutch garden of privately owned Hatch House in Wiltshire, is set to entertain nearly 2,000 visitors from July 27 to 30.

Matt Brady, director of the Covent Garden Dance Company and founder and creator of the ballet at Hatch House, has grown the production from its naissance as a single night of 160 guests in 2009 to the current production.

This year, Ballet Under the Stars will have a French nuance as guests are transported to 1920s Paris, where the Café Folle will serve Parisian cocktails.

By the time the evening’s performances end, Café Folle will have transformed into a Parisian speakeasy with live performances from singer Faiith Lynch.

“Guests will be invited to immerse themselves into a time where anything and everything goes and freedom of expression was not only encouraged but insisted upon,” a spokesperson said.

“Stars future and present will come from the Paris Opera Ballet, the ancestral home of classical ballet, including Valentine Colasante, Myriam Ould-Braham, Pablo Legasa, Guillaume Diop, Luna Peigné and Michaël Lafon.

“Principal dancers The Royal Ballet, Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales alongside internationally renowned Ksenia Ovsyanick, Principal with the Staatsballett Berlin join Mara Galeazzi, former Principal with The Royal Ballet.

“Both Ksenia and Mara are well loved and recognised dancers to Hatch regulars. It’s going to be quite a year.”

The programme includes a supper teamed with wines from local wine merchant Gardner & Beedle.

For more details, and to book tickets, log on to www.coventgardendance.com or email the Hatch House team via events@coventgardendance.com.

Tickets are available from £185 per person.

Covent Garden Dance & Hatch House are continuing a decade-long partnership with Country Life Magazine, Official Media Partner of 2023 and renewing partnerships with Performance Partner Savills and Official Wine Partner Gardner & Beedle.