# Beryl Goldwyn > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Beryl_Goldwyn > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Beryl_Goldwyn.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Goldwyn > Source revision: 1348177164 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English ballet dancer (1930–2022) Beryl Goldwyn Born Beryl Fleur Goldwyn (1930-12-31)31 December 1930 England Died 11 October 2022(2022-10-11) (aged 91) Occupation Ballet dancer Spouse Andrew Karney ​ ​ (m. 1969)​ Children Peter Karney (b.1972) **Beryl Fleur Karney** (31 December 1930 – 11 October 2022), also known as **Beryl Goldwyn**, was an English [ballet](/source/Ballet) dancer. Born near [London](/source/London), she started dancing at the age of three. She studied with [Marie Rambert](/source/Marie_Rambert) at the [Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate](/source/Mercury_Theatre%2C_Notting_Hill_Gate)[1] alongside [Audrey Hepburn](/source/Audrey_Hepburn) and at the [Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts](/source/Italia_Conti_Academy_of_Theatre_Arts). She attended the [Royal Ballet School](/source/Royal_Ballet_School)[2] and performed with [The Royal Ballet](/source/The_Royal_Ballet) in *The Sleeping Princess* (*[The Sleeping Beauty](/source/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet))*) with Dame [Margot Fonteyn](/source/Margot_Fonteyn) when the [Royal Opera House](/source/Royal_Opera_House) reopened after the [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in 1946.[3][4] 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](/source/Saville_Theatre) on London's [West End](/source/West_End_theatre). She joined the [Ballet Rambert](/source/Ballet_Rambert) in 1949,[5] later becoming its [prima ballerina](/source/Prima_ballerina)[6] At [Baalbeck International Festival](/source/Baalbeck_International_Festival) Goldwyn danced numerous roles, including *[Les Sylphides](/source/Les_Sylphides)*, *[The Nutcracker](/source/The_Nutcracker)*, Gala Performance, and *[The Sleeping Beauty](/source/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet))*, She was fortunate early in her career to find an ideal partner in [Alexander Bennett](/source/Alexander_Bennett_(dancer)). She first impressed with the chamber ballets revived as part of Ballet at Eight, the final performances of Rambert at the tiny [Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate](/source/Mercury_Theatre%2C_Notting_Hill_Gate). Goldwyn got to know the choreography of [Walter Gore](/source/Walter_Gore) and [Antony Tudor](/source/Antony_Tudor). Her most celebrated was the part of *[Giselle](/source/Giselle)*.[7] *[The Times](/source/The_Times)* newspaper wrote that she was “the most moving Giselle that Britain can offer”, this was at a time when [Margot Fonteyn](/source/Margot_Fonteyn) was also performing the role at the [Royal Opera House](/source/Royal_Opera_House), Covent Garden. While in *[The Observer](/source/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.[4] In 1954, when [Roberto Rossellini](/source/Roberto_Rossellini) staged *Joan of Arc at the Stake* at the [Stoll Theatre](/source/Stoll_Theatre), London, for his wife [Ingrid Bergman](/source/Ingrid_Bergman), it was preceded by the first act of *Giselle*, ballet critic of the *[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)* [Andrew Porter](/source/Andrew_Porter_(music_critic)) later wrote (in 1971) that "with Beryl Goldwyn as its delightful heroine, the Honegger work (*[Joan of Ark at the Stake](/source/Jeanne_d'Arc_au_b%C3%BBcher)*) did not stand much of a chance". When [John Cranko](/source/John_Cranko) choreographed the two ballets for Rambert: *The Lady with her Shadow* in *Variations on a Theme* (1955) and *The Girl in Black* in *La Reja* (1959), he chose Goldwyn for the lead roles. [Robert Joffrey](/source/Robert_Joffrey) cast her as [Marie Taglioni](/source/Marie_Taglioni) in his ballet *Pas de Déesses*. She performed in the UK, [Jersey](/source/Jersey), Ireland, Belgium, France (at [Théâtre du Châtelet](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet) in Paris and at the [Aix-les-Bains](/source/Aix-les-Bains) Festival), throughout Germany (including [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin)), Italy (including at [La Fenice](/source/La_Fenice) in Venice, Bologna at the [Teatro Comunale di Bologna](/source/Teatro_Comunale_di_Bologna), Perugia and Rome at [Teatro Eliseo](/source/Teatro_Eliseo)), the United States (at the [Jacob's Pillow](/source/Jacob's_Pillow) festival), and at the [Baalbeck International Festival](/source/Baalbeck_International_Festival) in Lebanon, where she shared the programme with the Lebanese singer [Fairuz](/source/Fairuz).[8] In 1996–97, she performed again with [The Royal Ballet](/source/The_Royal_Ballet) at the [Royal Opera House](/source/Royal_Opera_House) in *[Don Quixote](/source/Don_Quixote_(ballet))*, with [Sylvie Guillem](/source/Sylvie_Guillem), fifty years after her first performance there.[9] She represented ballet dancers on the Council of British Actors [Equity](/source/Equity_(British_trade_union)) and in this capacity, she was consulted before [Rudolf Nureyev](/source/Rudolf_Nureyev) was granted his work permit to perform in the UK. Following her retirement from the [Ballet Rambert](/source/Ballet_Rambert) she taught ballet for the [Inner London Education Authority](/source/Inner_London_Education_Authority). She also studied painting with [Maggi Hambling](/source/Maggi_Hambling) and exhibited her works at Saint Martin's Gallery[3][4] in London in May 1991. She also studied [flamenco](/source/Flamenco) dancing in [Seville](/source/Seville) with [Milagros Mengíbar](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milagros_Meng%C3%ADbar&action=edit&redlink=1) [[es](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagros_Meng%C3%ADbar)], the celebrated flamenco dancer. For the 90th birthday celebrations of the Ballet Rambert, she took part in the "Rambert at 90 Oral History Project".[10][11] ## Personal life and death In 1969, she married scientist, engineer and businessman [Andrew Karney](/source/Andrew_Karney); their son Peter was born in 1972.[3][4] Goldwyn died of cancer on 11 October 2022, at the age of 91.[3][4][12][13] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Beryl Goldwyn talks about her time studying with Marie Rambert"](https://rambert.org.uk/voice/beryl-goldwyn/) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Chujoy, Anatole; Manchester, Phyllis Winifred (9 June 1967). [*The Dance Encyclopedia*](https://archive.org/details/danceencyclopedi00chuj). Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-guardianobit_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-guardianobit_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-guardianobit_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-guardianobit_3-3) Pritchard, Jane (26 October 2022). ["Beryl Goldwyn obituary"](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/oct/26/beryl-goldwyn-obituary). *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*. Retrieved 4 December 2022. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-auto_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-auto_4-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-auto_4-4) ["Beryl Goldwyn obituary"](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/beryl-goldwyn-obituary-n2ngcfv75). *[The Times](/source/The_Times)*. 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Beryl Goldwyn talks about her time with Rambert from the late 1940s to 1960"](https://rambert.org.uk/voice/beryl-goldwyn/), [Ballet Rambert](/source/Ballet_Rambert) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [*Ballet: A Decade of Endeavor*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-Qs7AAAAMAAJ&q=%22beryl+goldwyn), p. 96 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Beryl Goldwyn stars in *Giselle*](https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1950-01-01/1959-12-31?basicsearch=%22goldwyn%22&phrasesearch=goldwyn&publictag=theatre%20review), *[The Stage](/source/The_Stage)*, 28 May 1959 – via [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive) (subscription required) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Fairuz with Beryl Goldwyn at Baalbek"](http://www.arabnews.com/offbeat/news/839486), Arabnews.com; Retrieved 19 February 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Sylvie Guillem in *Don Quixote* at Covent Garden"](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/champagne-sylvie-1156501.html), *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Rambert Voices Archive: Beryl Goldwyn"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180817025959/http://www.rambert.org.uk/explore/rambert-voices/). [Ballet Rambert](/source/Ballet_Rambert). Archived from [the original](http://www.rambert.org.uk/explore/rambert-voices) on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Rambert Voices: an interview with Beryl Goldwyn](https://vimeo.com/233625166) on [Vimeo](/source/Vimeo), 13 September 2017 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [Beryl Goldwyn Obituary Der Spiegal](https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/beryl-goldwyn-nachruf-a-b149ccd7-8040-40ab-be0b-d5db0db8a195) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** [Beryl Goldwyn Rambert Obituary](https://rambert.org.uk/explore/stories/news/beryl-goldwyn-obituary-2024/) ## External links - [Beryl Goldwyn Karney](http://www.karney.com/beryl.htm), [Andrew Karney](/source/Andrew_Karney) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Beryl Goldwyn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Goldwyn) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Goldwyn?action=history)). 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