Programme for Les Ballets Negres

Les Ballets Nègres was Europe's first black dance company, founded in 1946 by Jamaican dancers Berto Pasuka and Ritchie Riley. The English composer Leonard Salzedo was closely involved with the group, and Salzedo wrote four scores for them for piano, tom tom and maracas: De Prophet, They Came, Market Day and Aggrey.

When the company visited Bristol Old Vic in 1948 they performed De Prophet and Aggrey.

This item was digitised by the University of Bristol theatre Collection as part of Bristol Old Vic’s “Protecting and Sharing the Heritage of Britain’s Oldest theatre ” project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.