British dance historian, critic, technical theorist, translator, bookseller and publisher
Cyril W. Beaumont |
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Born | Cyril William Beaumont (1891-11-01)1 November 1891
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Died | 24 May 1976(1976-05-24) (aged 84) |
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Occupations | - Dance historian
- critic
- technical theorist
- translator
- bookseller
- publisher
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Cyril W. Beaumont OBE (1 November 1891 – 24 May 1976) was a British dance historian, critic, technical theorist, translator, bookseller, and publisher.[1] Author of more than forty books on ballet, he is considered one of the most important dance historians of the twentieth century.[2]
- ^ Katherine M. Adelman, "Beaumont, Cyril," in International Encyclopedia of Dance (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), vol. 1, p. 398.
- ^ Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell, "Beaumont, Cyril William," in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Oxford University Press, 2000).