For the Love of Dance by Dame Beryl Grey
By Dame Beryl Grey
As bombs fell on London, and elderly basically fourteen, she joined Ninette de Valois’s ballet corporation, traveling Britain in the course of WWII. regardless of the problems of wartime Britain, as a real artist Beryl speedy turned one of many most interesting ballerinas England has ever produced. remarkable within the historical past of ballet, she first danced the complete size Swan Lake on her 15th birthday, Giselle at 16 and Princess Aurora at nineteen, changing into a number one ballerina because the corporation (which turned the Royal Ballet) travelled via war-ravaged Britain and Europe, and launched into the now-famous excursions of the U.S.. Beryl grew to become a world dance celebrity – the 1st English ballerina to bop in Soviet Russia on the Bolshoi and in Communist China.
Having retired from dancing, Beryl grew to become the inventive Director of the then seriously weakened pageant Ballet. via her love of dance, her imaginative and prescient, her services and her sheer labor, over ten years she remodeled that corporation with new dancers, new ballets, a brand new domestic and new audiences. yet in spite of all her luck as creative Director, it was once then that Beryl met her nemesis – the multi-talented, deeply , Rudolf
Nureyev.
in response to her letters and diaries, For the affection of Dance is a rare story of a rare girl and a lifestyles given to her past love – dance.
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