ABSTRACT
The 1930s' contingent of European modern dance in Britain comprised both dancers returning home after training abroad and foreign refugees from Nazism. Among the former was Leslie Burrowes, a student of Wigman, who returned to London in Autumn 1931, becoming an influential teacher and recitalist. Among the latter, the most celebrated grouping was around Kurt Jooss. In 1934, following his flight from Essen and the international success of his anti-war work The Green Table (1932), he was provided with a base for his company, Ballets Jooss, and the school he directed with Sigurd Leeder at Dartington Hall in Devon, under the patronage of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst. Rudolf Laban himself arrived at Dartington in 1938, making it an important enclave of emigre European modern dance.
