Beryl de Zoete
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Beryl de Zoete (1879 – 1962) was an English ballet dancer, orientalist, dance critic, and dance researcher. She is also known as a translator of Italo Svevo.
Full name: Beryl Drusilla de Zoete.
In the field of dance, she taught eurhythmics, investigated Indian dance and theatre traditions, and collaborated with Walter Spies on Dance and Drama in Bali (1937), which is still a standard reference for traditional Balinese dance and theatrical forms. She studied dance, at least in part with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in 1913 and 1915, and subsequently taught dance until sometime in the 1920s. She traveled extensively, including in Bali and South Asia. She wrote on dance at various times for The Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Nation and Ballet (edited by Richard Buckle). Her books on dance were published on Bali (1938), India (1953) and Sri Lanka (1957).
She was born in London where she resided for most of her life. According to her biographer Marian Ury, de Zoete was actually born in 1879. In 1902 she married Basil de Sélincourt (b. 1876), but the marriage lasted for only a few years. She entered into a lifelong relationship with the Orientalist and translator Arthur Waley (1889-1966), whom she met in 1918 but never married. Her relationship with Arthur Waley, was considered an indeterminate relationship in the eyes of observers such as Gerald Brenan.
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- Beryl de Zoete by Cecil Beaton, bromide print on white card mount, 1941[1]
- Beryl de Zoete by Ray (Rachel) Strachey, oil on board, 1925-1937. [2]
