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 knee-length peasant dress with chalky green low cut bodice and full white sleeves gathered to below elbow and edged with a frill; from either shoulder to centre waist are graduated bands in rich brown with white epaulettes and trim. The skirt is of pale lime green with green bands towards the hem, over which is an apron in rich brown tiny lattice with brown bands and white decorative bands at the lower edge. The headdress is a small 'Juliet' cap with a short veil to side and back. 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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