Appleyard, Beatrice (1918–1994)
Appleyard, Beatrice (1918–1994)
English dancer and choreographer. Born in Maidenhead, Berks, England, 1918; died in 1994; studied with Ninette de Valois, Tamara Karsavina, and Bronislava Nijinska.
One of the 1st English dancers to achieve celebrity in early days of English ballet, performed in 2 early Frederick Ashton theater works, Pomona and High Yellow; was an original member of the Vic-Wells Ballet, dancing in The Lord of Burleigh (1931), Dances Sacrées et Profanes and The Scorpions of Ysit (1932), Les Rendezvous (1933), The Haunted Ballroom (1934), and Casse Noisette; was also soloist with the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the Windmill Theater, London, and choreographer for several London musicals; moved to Ankara, Turkey (1951), where she taught.
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