Reviews
'For The Love Of Dance represents a detailed journal of Dame Beryl Grey’s life as a dancer with the Royal Ballet and as a freelance guest artist, and the everyday travails of directing a major ballet company and inner workings of such a ballet company... Grey has revealed a great deal of herself in her autobiography which makes For The Love of Dance an absorbing read.' Mark Kappel, Newsnotes
'Beryl Grey, now 90, one of UK’s brilliant dancers, danced her first Odette at 15. She has always kept a daily diary and always turned to God for guidance. She writes of her time with the Royal Ballet, her international career as guest artist, her numerous travels abroad... She does not hide her bitterness at always being in the second eleven and Margot Fonteyn and Moira Shearer getting more opportunities than she did... She gives a vivid record of her relationship with Ninette de Valois... and what it was like to work with Wilfred Stiff, John Gilpin and Rudolf Nureyev...Grey describes the chaos and venomous backstabbing in detail.' Mature Times
'extraordinary incidents are detailed in the autobiography of Dame Beryl Grey, 90, the former prima ballerina who collaborated with Nureyev in the 1970s when she was artistic director of London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet)... Grey has drawn on her previously unpublished diaries, writing “about Rudi as I found him”. “Every day, he was different and unpredictable, so kind sometimes, other times so uncharitable.”... Grey is offering further insights into the dancer... "I would have been very scared to have danced with him because you didn’t know if he was going to be in a good mood or a bad one." ' The Guardian
