Beryl Drusilla de Zoete, also known as Beryl de Sélincourt (July 1879 – 4 March 1962) was an English ballet dancer, orientalist, dance critic, and dance researcher.
[3] She entered into a lifelong relationship with the Orientalist and translator Arthur Waley, whom she met in 1918 but never married.
She wrote on dance at various times for The Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Nation and Ballet (edited by Richard Buckle).
According to Harold Acton, she had a tendency to overstretch the hospitality of her friends: when Paola Olivetti, a little vexed, went away from one of her villas, Beryl stayed on; she left only when the cook told her he was going on vacation.
[5] Beryl makes an appearance in Anuradha Roy's novel All the Lives We Never Lived (2018), which combines a portrayal of her time in Bali with Walter Spies with a fictional trip to India that Spies had planned to take in order to research Indian dance forms.