| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding Margaret Barr and the School of Dance-Mime at Dartington Hall.
Subjects include: the appointment of a Donald Pond as a musician; suggestions for the Estate programme; arrangements for performances; publicity in the magazine 'The Lady'; finance, budgets and accounts; the appointment of Beatrice Straight as the Executive Secretary; an exhibition of artists' work upon the Dartington Hall Estate; developments at Dartington Hall School including the building of a new boarding house and the appointment of a nursery school teacher; a proposal to appoint Ellen van Volkenburg as administrator; the appointment of Marjorie Fogden as secretary; the decision to discontinue the School of Dance-Mime and the option for the dance students to join the Jooss-Leeder School of Dance; the move of the Dance-Mime group from Dartington to London; and the rent of a Studio for the Margaret Barr Group.
Correspondents include: Dorothy Elmhirst; Donald Pond; Joyce Peters; Margaret Barr; William K Slater; Louise Soelberg; K Kent; Beatrice Straight; W B Curry; Leonard Elmhirst; E S Porter; Mrs Richard; Ellen van Volkenburg; Dorothy Elmhirst; Freda Marshall; Marjorie Fogden; Paul Goffin; Ryan and Ryan; Teda de Moor; E S Porter; and Lloyds Bank Limited.
Additional material includes: typed press notices and testimonials for Donald Pond; a score for 'A Mystery of the Nativity' by Donald Pond; reports of School of Dance Mime by Margaret Barr (1930-1932); an outline for 'The Spring Festival'; a list of projects for next year's professional group activities at the School of Dance Mime by Louise Soelberg (1931); a programme for 'The Dartington Hall School of Dance-Mime, Dance Production', signed by members of the cast; minutes of a meetings of the Dartington Hall School Trustees regarding the School of Dance-Mime; lists of equipment needed and orders; a paper 'General Principles: Manifesto, Working Plan, Economic Policy' and introduction 'To the Trustees'; and 'Notes on the School of Dance-Mime' by F G Thomas (1934). |