Beryl Goldwyn

Beryl Goldwyn (born 1930) is a British ballet dancer.

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1930 - Ballet

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Born near London, she started dancing at the age of three. She attended the Royal Ballet School 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 Second World War. She danced with the Anglo Polish Ballet and in 1949 she joined the Ballet Rambert later becoming its prima ballerina. She danced numerous roles including Les Sylphides, Nutcracker, Gala Performance, Sleeping Beauty; but her most celebrated was the part of Giselle. She performed in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and the Lebanon.

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Royal Ballet School - Royal Ballet - Sleeping Princess - The Sleeping Beauty - Margot Fonteyn - Royal Opera House - Second World War - Ballet Rambert - Les Sylphides - Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty - Giselle

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In 1996 and 1997 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.

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Royal Ballet - Royal Opera House - Don Quixote - Sylvie Guillem

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