Beryl Goldwyn

Beryl Goldwyn, now Beryl Karney (born 31 December 1930) is an English ballet dancer.

Born near London, she started dancing at the age of three. She attended the Royal Ballet School[1] and performed with the Royal Ballet in The Sleeping Princess (The Sleeping Beauty), with Dame Margot Fonteyn, when the Royal Opera House reopened after the World War II in 1946.

She danced with the Anglo Polish Ballet in 1949.,[2] and she joined the Ballet Rambert in 1950, later becoming its prima ballerina.[3]

She danced numerous roles, including Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, Gala Performance, and The Sleeping Beauty, but her most celebrated was the part of Giselle. In 1953, The Times wrote about her performance of Giselle:

Her natural grace of carriage, and the effortless line which allows her. limbs to shape themselves, in attitude or in motion, into always fluent and satisfying patterns, help her to bridge the gap between the Giselle of both acts. When she rises from the tomb, or rather is revealed before it, she begins to dance with the dignity and poise of the Wili; but these are qualities, on a more ethereal plane, that have marked her dancing in pas-de-deux and solo when she was yet alive. Miss Goldwyn is a gifted and charming dancer; she can act too, as a convincing representation of the mad scene vividly showed.

Arnold Haskell, the famous British ballet critic referred to her as a "hidden gem of British Ballet"

She performed in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, and at the Baalbek festival in Lebanon, where she shared the programme with Fairuz (فيروز) the famous Lebanese singer and legend.[4]

In 1996-97 she performed again with the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in Don Quixote, with Sylvie Guillem, fifty years after her first performance there.

For the 90th birthday celebrations of the Ballet Rambert she took part in the "Rambert at 90 Oral History Project". [5] [6]

She studied painting with Maggi Hambling and held an exhibition of her works in Saint Martin's Gallery, Trafalgar Square in London.

Personal life

In 1969 she married the scientist, engineer and businessman Andrew Karney; their son Peter was born in 1972.

References

  1. ↑ Chujoy, Anatole; Manchester, Phyllis Winifred (9 June 1967). "The dance encyclopedia". Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Beryl Goldwyn joins the Anglo Polish Ballet, Answers.com; accessed 19 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Beryl Goldwyn, Prima Ballerina; Books.google.com, accessed 19 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Fairuz with Beryl Goldwyn at Baalbek, Arabnews.com; accessed 19 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Rambert Voices Archive - Rambert". Rambert.org.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Beryl Goldwyn on Rambert Voices


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