Occupation Choreographer Name Gweneth Lloyd | Died January 1, 1993 | |
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Born September 15, 1901 ( 1901-09-15 ) Eccles, Lancashire, UK | ||
Royal Winnipeg Ballet 75th Anniversary Film
Gweneth Lloyd, OC (September 15, 1901 - January 1, 1993) was a co-founder of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, a ballet teacher and choreographer.
Lloyd was born in Eccles, Lancashire, United Kingdom and emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1938 with her colleague Betty Farrally (née Hey). They opened a ballet school and founded a company that in 1953 became the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She also founded the dance program at the Banff School of Fine Arts (now The Banff Centre) in 1948. She choreographed 36 works between 1939 and 1952 . Her choreographic notes were destroyed in a fire at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1954. Her work Shadow on the Prairie was filmed by the National Film Board in 1954. Later in her career she opened ballet schools in Toronto and Kelowna.
She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1969, a Fellowship Award from the Royal Academy of Dance in 1979 and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992.
She died in Kelowna in 1993.