Dame Beryl Grey DBE

President

Previous Companies
Sadler’s Wells (now Royal) Ballet (Prima Ballerina)1941-1957; International guest ballerina including Bolshoi Ballet (first Western guest artist, 1957) and Peking Ballet (1964) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (A Director) Birmingham Royal Ballet (A Director)

English National Ballet
English National Ballet Artistic Director 1968-1979 (then London Festival Ballet)

Career highlights
Danced full-length Swan Lake on 15th birthday, Giselle at 16. Director/Producer with Ben Stevenson of The Sleeping Beauty 1967; Director/Producer of Swan Lake, London Festival Ballet 1971; Giselle, Western Australian Ballet 1954-66; The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Swedish Ballet 1985 and 2002

Other info
Dame Beryl Grey, DBE is President of English National Ballet; Life President of the ISTD, Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Dance, Music Therapy Charity and British and International Federation of Festivals, Chairman of the Royal Ballet Benevolent Fund and Patron of the Critics Circle Dance Awards. Has on-going links with dance, music, design and medical organisations. She has written two books, edited one and has five honorary degrees. In February 2017, Dame Beryl Grey received the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 2016 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards.