Beryl Goldwyn

Beryl Goldwyn - now Beryl Karney - (born 1930) 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" ("The Sleeping Beauty"), 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":

She performed in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, and at the Baalbek festival in Lebanon, where she shared the programme with Fairuz (فيروز‎) the famous Lebanese singer and legend.

In 1996 and 1997 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 is an accomplished flamenco dancer after studying with Milagros Mengíbar in Sevilla, Spain.

She studied painting with Maggie Hambling and held an exhibition of her works in Saint Martin's Gallery in London.

In 1969 she married the scientist, engineer and businessman Andrew Karney, who was a director of the Guardian Media Group and is the chairman of the anti corruption NGO, Tiri They have a son Peter Karney (1972 - ).

She now lives in Herefordshire.

External links

* [http://www.karney.com/beryl.htm Beryl Goldwyn/Karney]