Description | Papers relating to Ludmila Mlada's time spent with the dance company Ballets Jooss.
Contents include: Programmes featuring Sigurd Leeder and Mlada dancing under the names Ludmila Young and Ludmila Mlada; news cuttings of reviews, Ballets Jooss publicity, text written by Mlada in 1943 about her attendance at a Ballets Jooss performance, pages from a calendar with Ballets Jooss photographs, letter to Rosemary Young from Kurt Jooss inviting her to become a student member of the group 24 November 1943, agreements dated 1944 for Ludmila Young to be employed as a dancer in the company; souvenir programmes. Piece numbered 1 - 32 [please note photograph missing from 1 - empty photograph folder].
A set of black and white photographic prints and postcards of Ballets Jooss in performance and on tour in 1946-7 and 1950, some are annotated on the verso, also some portrait shots of Mlada. Piece numbered 33 - 89. Some oversize material. |