| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the activities of Elsa and Fredric Cohen. Subjects include: general news; Fredric Cohen's health; the copying of original letters held by Dartington Hall Trust concerning benefit performances given by the Ballets Jooss during the South American tour (1940-1941) for the records of the Performing Arts Museum, New York; arrangements for Elsa Cohen to research the Jooss material held by Dartington Hall Trust; and Elsa Cohen's donation of material concerning the activities of the Ballets Jooss including the South American performances and the early plans for the combined arts programmes.
Correspondents include: Elsa Cohen; Helen and J V (Vic) Elmhirst; Fritz Cohen; Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst; and Robin (Robert) Johnson. Additional material includes: a transcript of 'Private Interviews with German Members of Arts Department' (1939); a statement of comparative figures, between Jooss-Leeder School and Chekhov Theatre Studio; biographical notes on Kurt Jooss, Sigurd Leeder, Hans Oppenheim, and Heinrich Georg Heckroth by Christopher Martin (1940); a list of the original records held by Dartington Hall Trust regarding the War effort of Jooss Ballets in South America (1940-1941); and biographical notes on Sigurd Leeder by Peter Cox (1981). |