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Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD (14 April 1920 – 30 March 2018[1]) 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[2] and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust.[3][4] In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate.[5]

Ivor Forbes Guest
Guest in 2010
Born(1920-04-14)14 April 1920
Chislehurst, England
Died30 March 2018(2018-03-30) (aged 97)
London, England
OccupationHistorian, lawyer and administrator
NationalityBritish
Period1953–2008
GenreHistory
SubjectBallet, Napoleon III
Notable awardsOrdre des Arts et des Lettres
2000
Spouse
Ann Hutchinson Guest
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(m. 1962; his death 2018)​
RelativesErnest Lucas Guest (uncle)

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.[6]


Early life


Ivor Guest was born on 14 April 1920 in Chislehurst, Kent, England.[5] Guest's father, Cecil Marmaduke Guest served as a lieutenant in the Transvaal Scottish in the First World War and was later made up to captain, serving with the South African Scottish in France, where he was gassed. Declared unfit for further service he remained in England.[7] He married Ivor's mother, Christian Forbes-Tweedie on 30 July 1918.[8][9]


Ballet historian


Photo of the ballerina Giuseppina Bozzachi (1853–1870) costumed as Swanilda in the ballet Coppélia. Paris, France, 1870, reproduced in Guest's The Ballet of the Second Empire
Photo of the ballerina Giuseppina Bozzachi (1853–1870) costumed as Swanilda in the ballet Coppélia. Paris, France, 1870, reproduced in Guest's The Ballet of the Second Empire

Guest's first book, Napoleon III in England (1952), came from an interest in his birth town's association with the exiled Napoleon III. Then, despite a successful career as a lawyer, Guest spent holidays and other leisure time researching the ballet of the Second Empire in the archives of the Bibliothèque de l'Opéra in Paris, producing two volumes on the subject entitled The Ballet of the Second Empire (1953, 1955).[10]

He received tributes in Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research in 1995,[10] the year of his 75th birthday; and in Dance Chronicle in 2001.[5] Guest died in London on 30 March 2018, two weeks before his 98th birthday.[11]


Publications


Guest's writing focuses primarily on the ballet in Paris, at the Opéra, in the years 1770 to 1870. He also chronicles the international careers of some of ballet's stars.[5]


Ballet



Other history



Honours


In 1997, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award for services to ballet which is the RAD's highest honour; he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] In 2000 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[2]


See also



References


  1. Macaulay, Alastair (9 April 2018). "Ivor Guest, 97, Dies; Transformed Study of Dance History". The New York Times. London. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. "Royal Academy of Dance – Vice Presidents". Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
  3. "The Radcliffe Trust". Archived from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
  4. "Charity Performance". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  5. Dorris, George (2001). "'Ivor Guest – An Appreciation'". Dance Chronicle. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 24 (1, Tribute to Ivor Guest): 1–5. doi:10.1081/dnc-100103139. JSTOR 1568050. S2CID 194056378.
  6. "Language of Dance Centre – People Involved". Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  7. Gale, William Daniel (1974). History of Coghlan, Welsh & Guest. p. 36. ASIN B004H70LE2.
  8. The Tweedie Family (PDF). 2005. p. 90. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  9. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  10. Clarke, Mary; Crisp, Clement (Summer 1995). "Ivor Guest: By Way of an Introduction". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. Edinburgh University Press. 13 (1, Ivor Guest 75th Birthday Celebration Issue): 2–6. doi:10.2307/1290897. JSTOR 1290897.
  11. Salas, Roger (8 April 2018). "Muere a los 97 años Ivor Guest, el gran historiador del ballet". El País – via elpais.com.


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