CYRIL W. BEAUMONT, ONE OF THE GREATEST DANCE HISTORIANS OF ALL TIME

Perhaps, many of you may not know who he is Cyril W. Beaumont OBE (1891-1976), the British ballet historian, critic, theorist, bookseller and publisher. However, without him we would not know much of the Dance of the end of XIX Century and beginning of the XX Century. Therefore, his name will always be associated with the greatest dance theorist of all time such as Jean-Georges Noverre, Carlo Blasis as well as his contemporaries Ivor Guest and Clement Crisp, for his incalculable contribution to the art of Terpsicore. Nevertheless, without a doubt, he has been the most prolific of them being the author of more than 40 forty books of which many of them, have been published by the Beaumont Press located in his small book shop in Charing Cross Road in central London for more than half a century. Moreover, he has written numberless scholar and popular articles, as well as being an influential ballet critic of The Sunday Times from almost decade. His most notable work has been The Complete Book of Ballets (1937), an essential resource for any dance researcher of the XXI Century.

Cover of the work The Complete Book of Ballets (1937)

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