Choreographer

Ivor Forbes Guest

British historian (1920–2018)

Born 1920 · ChislehurstDied 2018United Kingdom
Ivor Forbes Guest
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Ivor Forbes Guest was a British choreographer, born in 1920 in Chislehurst, who died in 2018.

Biography

Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD (14 April 1920 – 30 March 2018) was a British historian and writer, best known for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years (1970–93) and has been a Vice-President since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust. In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate.

He was married to the movement notation expert Ann Hutchinson Guest and acted as a trustee of the Language of Dance Centre, which she founded.

From the Wikipedia article “Ivor Forbes Guest”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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Peggy Spencer

British dancer and choreographer (1920-2016)

1920–2016
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Deryk Mendel

British actor (1920-2013)

1920–2013
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Alan Carter

British ballet dancer

1920–2009
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Peter Racine Fricker

English composer (1920–1990)

1920–1990
Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn

British ballerina

1919–1991
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John Field

British ballet dancer and choreographer (1921-1991)

1921–1991
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Bob Anderson

British actor and fencer (1922-2012)

1922–2012
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Richard Arnell

English composer (1917–2009)

1917–2009

Facts from Wikidata (Q257844), CC0.