The Hampstead & Highgate Festival is a celebration of the arts embracing music, film, theatre, literature, visual arts and in 2010, dance, which provides the theme. Diaghilev’s company, Ballets Russes, formed one hundred years ago, inspired an extraordinary inter-disciplinary collaboration of artists including Picasso and Matisse, Stravinsky, Poulenc and Prokofiev and dancers such as Nijinsky, Karsavina and Sokolova, the last two of whom lived in Hampstead.

In 2010 we also celebrate, in conjunction with Diaghilev, the two hundredth anniversaries of the births of composers Robert Schumann and Fryderyk Chopin, whose music formed the basis of highly popular Ballets Russes repertoire.

Full details of the programme will be available in Spring 2010.