{{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}} {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=November 2025}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} '''Peter Royston''' (born 1952 in London) is an English dancer, choreographer, teacher and director.
==Early life== He is a Royal Academy of Dancing scholar (1963–1968) and trained at The Royal Ballet School (1968–1970) Arts Educational (1970–1971)
== Career == He danced in the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Munster State Ballet, Kiel State Ballet, and the Scottish Ballet (1975–1985).
He choreographed major works for The Scottish Ballet: ''Steps to ?'' (1981), ''To The Last Whale'' (1982), ''Randombach, Quarrels not their own'' (1983),<ref name="f405">{{cite book | last=White | first=Joan W. | title=Twentieth-century Dance in Britain: A History of Major Dance Companies in Britain | publisher=Dance Books | date=1985 | isbn=978-0-903102-85-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vw6AAAAMAAJ&q=%2522Peter+Royston%2522+dance | access-date=10 November 2025 | page=161}}</ref> ''Pococurantis'' (1985), ''Ringed by the flat horizon'' (1985). For Scottish Dance Theatre:<ref name="z752">{{cite news| last=Roy | first=Sanjoy | title=Step-by-step guide to dance: Scottish Dance Theatre | work=The Guardian |quote=not to be confused with another company called Scottish Dance Theatre, which was founded in Glasgow by Peter Royston in 1985| date=19 November 2009 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/19/guide-scottish-dance-theatre | access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> ''Friction'' and ''Touch'' (both with Graham Bowers, 1985), ''Brief Encounter'' (1986), ''Love minus zero no limit'' (1986), ''5 Women'' (1986) and ''Consuming Passions'' (1987)
Other choreography: ''Red Hot Shoes'' for Tron Theatre (writer Liz Lochhead 1987),<ref name="r080">{{cite book | last=Crawford | first=Robert | title=Liz Lochhead's Voices | publisher=Edinburgh University Press | date=1 June 2019 | isbn=978-1-4744-6594-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36QxEAAAQBAJ&q=%2522Peter%2520Royston%2522%2520dance&pg=PA10 | access-date=10 November 2025 | page=10}}</ref> ''Columba'' (opera to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Glasgow Cathedral 1987), ''Great Scot'' (director John Cairney 1988).
He was on the dance committee at the Scottish Arts Council 1994 - 1999. He was appointed lecturer at Dundee College in 1991. He developed a foundation course for the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=365448 |title=Space, the new dance frontier|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107125941/https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/space-new-dance-frontier|archive-date=7 November 2017|first=Julie|last=Morrice|date=21 June 2002|work=Times Educational Supplement}}</ref>
He was appointed dance artist in residence to the Scottish Borders Region (1988–1991); he created the Borders Dance Festival and works including a site-specific work with composer Savourna Stevenson.
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