Costume design by Sylvia Green for a Village Girl in Molly Lake's ballet La Petite Fadette, premiered by the Ballet Guild, 1942.

Full length faceless female ballet dancer wearing white peasant dress with white low cut bodice and full sleeves gathered to below elbow edged a small frill; from the shoulders to centre waist are diagonal decorated maroon bands with small shoulder epaulettes in pale blue with pink frill. The calf-length skirt is white with pale blue lines above the hem, the apron in pale blue with a blue grey waistband, the lower edge decorated in peasant style in maroon and pink. The white peasant cap has hanging front bands in blue grey. Pencil, watercolour and gouache. Annotated.

Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest

The design is for a Village Girl in La Petite Fadette, a ballet in two scenes adapted by Deryck Lynham from the book of the same name by George Sand, was choreographed by Molly Lake with costumes by Sylvia Green and scenery by Beryl Dean, and premiered by the Ballet Guild in 1942.
The design was originally part of the dance material collected by the Ballet Guild, which included books, programmes, pictures, souvenirs and material relating to its own productions, which was handed over to the London Archives of the Dance in 1945; Beaumont called this collection the 'founding nucleus' of the London Archives of the Dance. The Archives never achieved an independent home and the material stored with Beaumont came to the Theatre Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest.

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