| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the activities of the students of the Jooss-Leeder School of Dance. Subjects include: arrangements for Kurt Jooss to take his Company to Dartington Hall and teach there; the enrollment of students; the sending of prospectus'; the writing of an article about the activities upon the Dartington Hall Estate; possible arrangements for Madame Magito to come from Paris to perform at Dartington; the discontinuation of the use of the name 'Jooss' by the Cecchetti-Diaghileff School of Ballet; finance including the payment of fees in foreign currency; complaints about the noise, behaviour and improper dress of the Dance students; a proposal by Fritz Cohen for a collaboration with Trudi Schoop; Sigurd Leeders' time at Camp, arrangements for his transfer and nationalisation.
Correspondents include: P Richardson, Dancing Times; Louise Soelberg; Sigurd Leeder; Beatrice Straight; Deirdre Hurst du Prey; Leonard Elmhirst; Christopher Martin; Marjorie Fogden; Madame Magito; Beryl de Zoete; C Clark, Cecchetti-Diaghileff School of Ballet; F A S Gwatkin; E S Porter; Linda Jackson; Marjorie Fogden; Wanda Graham; Kurt Jooss; Hans Zullig; Mrs Peaty; and Katherine Harvey.
Additional material includes: press cuttings; applications for Scholarships; Jooss-Leeder Ballet School empty folder, with green logo; lists of names, date of birth and nationality of students; minutes from meetings of the Jooss-Leeder School of Dance Scholarship Committee (1935-1939); 'Notes on the future of Dance School and Ballets Jooss' (1936); timetables covering a week; programmes for end of term dances composed by the students; lists of Dance School Scholarships; a memorandum regarding scholarships (1938); a statement of account for the Jooss-Leeder Scholarship Fund (1939); a programme of performances by the Studio Group (1938); and a form for hire of the Dance Hall at Dartington Hall. |