Record

Ref NoT/AA
TitleT Arts: Administration
DescriptionRecords of the Arts administration office are divided into: Administrators Reports 1934-1944; Arts Board; Refugees; Christopher Martin Memoranda; Christopher Martin Correspondence; Administrator's Reports 1945-1947; Administrator's Reports 1948-1954; Arts Administration Committee 1945-1954; A P Cox 1945; Staff; Teachers Training Course 1952-1954; General Arts Courses 1954-1961; Dartington Hall Arts Centre; Library; plus financial and other records.

One of the wartime functions of the Arts administrator was co-ordinating and reporting on Jewish refugee artists and performers such as the members of the Ballets Jooss; Kurt Jooss, Fritz Cohen, Sigurd Leeder, and artists and musicians including Hein Heckroth, Willi Soukop and Hans Oppenheim. This series contains considerable information on German refugees, and war time internment in 1940 and 1941.

The Arts Administration minutes and correspondence show arts activity across the estate, including music, theatre and arts policy; the Dartington Hall Film Unit (earlier known as the Cine Group), including film distribution throughout the south-west for the Ministry of Information; preliminary discussions for the Arts Enquiry, a fact-finding research project begun in 1941; early Summer School at Dartington; Children's Christmas Festival; dance movement and Rudolf Laban. There are records of the Dartington Hall Library. This series contains extensive correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and Arts Administrators Christopher Martin and Peter Cox.

The Dartington Hall Arts Centre records contains reports and proposals for education and the arts, and cover the transition of the Arts Department to the Dartington Hall Arts Centre and its move towards establishing itself as an accredited educational institute. It includes records relating to discussions with the Ministry of Education on the proposed Scheme for Training Specialist Teachers of Music. Records relating to the Dartington String Quartet are also included.
Date1934-1985
SubjectRefugees
Arts administration
World War II
Dance
Music
Musicians
Dancers
Theatre
Drama education
Dance education
Film production
Film distribution
Exhibitions
Wartime internment
Artists
Personnel Management
Art education
Christmas
Music education
Person_Code284
317
187
384
410
412
241
336
340
413
415
262
416
183
GB/DHT/384
NA553
NA554
DS/UK/643
DS/UK/664
DS/UK/567
DS/UK/856
DS/UK/673
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
284Martin; Christopher (-1944)-1944
317Porter; Eric S
187Curry; William Burnlee (1900-1962); headmaster1900-1962
GB/DHT/384Elmhirst; Dorothy Whitney Straight (1887-1968)1887-1968
410Elmhirst; Leonard Knight (1893-1974); agricultural economist1893-1974
412Jooss; Kurt (1901-May 1979)1901-May 1979
241Heckroth; Hein (1901-1970)1901-1970
336Soukop; Willi (1907-1995)1907-1995
340Straight; Beatrice Whitney (1914- 2001)1914- 2001
413Cohen; Fritz (Frederick) (1904-1967)1904-1967
415Leeder; Sigurd (1902-20 Jun 1981)1902-20 Jun 1981
262Laban; Rudolf Jean Baptiste Attila von (1879-1958)1879-1958
416Oppenheim; Hans (-1965); Musician and Conductor-1965
183Cox; Peter (- 13 Apr 2015)- 13 Apr 2015
GB/DHT/384Elmhirst; Dorothy Whitney Straight (1887-1968)1887-1968
NA553Ballets Jooss; c.1924-1965c.1924-1965
NA554Jooss-Leeder School of Dance; 1934-19401934-1940
DS/UK/643Arts Enquiry; 19411941
DS/UK/664Dartington Hall Trust; Film Unit; 1934-19491934-1949
DS/UK/567Dartington String Quartet; 1958-19801958-1980
DS/UK/856Dartington Hall Arts Centre; 1955-19611955-1961
DS/UK/673Dartington International Summer School; 1948-1948-
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