Beryl Goldwyn

Who is Beryl Goldwyn?

Beryl Goldwyn - now Beryl Karney - is 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, 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., and she joined the Ballet Rambert in 1950, later becoming its prima ballerina. 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.