13-796: Goldwyn is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname [ edit ] Beryl Goldwyn (born 1930), English ballerina John Goldwyn (born 1958), American film producer Liz Goldwyn (born 1976), American film director Robert Goldwyn (1930–2010), American surgeon and writer Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974), American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926–2015), American film producer Tony Goldwyn (born 1960), American actor Given name [ edit ] Goldwyn Arthur Martin (1913–2001), Canadian judge Goldwyn Prince (born 1974), Antigua and Barbuda cricketer See also [ edit ] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , an American media company Goldwyn Pictures ,
26-990: A Theme (1955) and The Girl in Black in La Reja (1959), he chose Goldwyn for the lead roles. Robert Joffrey cast her as Taglioni in his ballet Pas de Déesses . She performed in the UK, Ireland, France (at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at the Aix-les-Bains Festival), Germany, Italy (at La Fenice in Venice), and the United States (at the Jacob's Pillow festival), and at the Baalbeck International Festival in Lebanon, where she shared
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52-601: A theatrical family. From 1924, he studied acting at the Italia Conti Academy , and dance with Léonide Massine and with Marie Rambert . Gore was a dancer with Ballet Rambert from 1930 to 1935. He returned as a choreographer in 1938 with his first ballet Final Waltz . In 1944, whilst on leave from Army duty in France, Gore created a ballet based on Benjamin Britten 's Simple Symphony also entitled Simple Symphony for
65-612: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Beryl Goldwyn Beryl Fleur Karney (31 December 1930 – 11 October 2022), also known as Beryl Goldwyn , was an English ballet dancer. 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
78-825: The Royal Opera House reopened after the World War II in 1946. Goldwyn danced in 1946 with the Anglo Polish Ballet, a wartime troupe originally formed to provide work for Polish dancers in exile. The company was disbanded six months later, but not without first dancing at the Saville Theatre on London's West End. She joined the Ballet Rambert in 1949, later becoming its prima ballerina Goldwyn danced numerous roles, including Les Sylphides , The Nutcracker , Gala Performance, and The Sleeping Beauty , She
91-490: The "Rambert at 90 Oral History Project". In 1969, she married scientist, engineer and businessman Andrew Karney ; their son Peter was born in 1972. Goldwyn died of cancer on 11 October 2022, at the age of 91. Walter Gore Walter Gore (8 October 1910 – 16 April 1979) was a British ballet dancer , company director and choreographer . Walter Gore was born in Waterside, East Ayrshire Scotland in 1910 into
104-730: The Ballet Rambert. The work was largely created on Sally Gilmour and Margaret Scott . He remained at Ballet Rambert until 1950 and then worked occasionally with the Ballets des Champs-Elysées and the Sadler's Wells Ballet . He founded his own company, The Walter Gore Ballet, in 1953. He led the Frankfurt Ballet from 1957 to 1959, then became the founder and director of the London Ballet from 1961 to 1963. At that time he also became director of
117-715: The Stake at the Stoll Theatre, London for his wife Ingrid Bergman , it was preceded by the first act of Giselle , the celebrated ballet critic of the Financial Times , Andrew Porter later wrote (in 1971) that "with Beryl Goldwyn as its delightful heroine , the Honegger work ( Joan of Ark at the Stake ) did not stand much of a chance". When John Cranko choreographed the two ballets for Rambert: The Lady with her Shadow in Variations on
130-647: The UK. Following her retirement from the Ballet Rambert she taught ballet for the Inner London Education Authority . She also studied painting with Maggi Hambling and exhibited her works at Saint Martin's Gallery in London in May 1991. She also studied Flamenco dancing in Seville with Milagros Mengibar, the celebrated flamenco dancer. For the 90th birthday celebrations of the Ballet Rambert, she took part in
143-557: The programme with the Lebanese singer Fairuz . 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. She represented Ballet Dancers on the Council of British Actors Equity and in this capacity, she was consulted before Rudolf Nureyev was granted his work permit to perform in
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#1732848181037156-526: Was fortunate early in her career to find an ideal partner in Alexander Bennett . She first impressed with the chamber ballets revived as part of Ballet at Eight , the final performances of Rambert at the tiny Mercury Theater in Notting Hill Gate. Goldwyn got to know the choreography of Walter Gore and Antony Tudor . Her most celebrated was the part of Giselle . The Times newspaper wrote that she
169-518: Was “the most moving Giselle that Britain can offer”, this was at a time when Margot Fonteyn was also performing the role at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden. While in The Observer Richard Buckle described what a bore it was “to have to traipse out to Sadler's Wells and see . . . some girl one has never heard of in the title role”, but admitted leaving the theatre astonished. In 1954, when Roberto Rossellini staged Joan of Arc at
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