| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding a contract of agreement between Kurt Jooss, L Greanin, Arnold Meckel and the Dartington Hall Trust and the legal arrangements for the Ballets Jooss to become a Dartington Hall Ltd enterprise. Subjects include: arrangements for venues for the Ballets Jooss to perform including opportunity of the Globe Theatre for two weeks in June; arrangements for Ballets Jooss to come to Dartington; a request that the troupe be referred to in London as 'Ballets Jooss' with no reference to Dartington Hall and on the Continent as 'Ballets Jooss, Dance Theatre, Dartington Hall'; estimates of running costs for performances; arrangements for the publicity; finance; the terms of arrangement in connection with the Ballets Jooss; and the arrangements for Mr Hassinger to keep the accounts for the Ballets Jooss.
Correspondents include: Christopher Martin; F A S Gwatkin; Leonard Elmhirst; Kurt Jooss; Kay Starr; L Greanin; and Harold Gosling, Globe and Queens Theatres Ltd.
Additional material includes: a 'Memorandum on Arts Department and Jooss-Leeder School of Dance' (1934); copies of an 'Agreement - Mr Kurt Jooss; Messrs Meckel and Greanin and the Dartington Hall Trustees' (1934); copies of an 'Agreement - Between Kurt Jooss; Arnold Meckel and L Greanin; Leonard Knight Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst, Frederick Ambrose Stapleton Gwatkin; Alfred Octavius Elmhirst' (1935); and a copy of a 'Contract between Kurt Jooss, A Meakel, L Greanin - the direction of the Ballet Jooss (Dance Theatre, Dartington Hall) and Members of the Troupe' (1935). |