Bryony Jane Susan St John Brind (27 May 1960 – 2 December 2015)[1] was a British ballerina and principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
In 1981, she danced the lead role in the Royal Ballet's Swan Lake,[4] and her fame increased the next year when she partnered Rudolf Nureyev at Covent Garden in La Bayadere: Kingdom of the Shades.
With Nureyev, she also danced the Siren in George Balanchine's The Prodigal Son, and as Miranda in his own ballet of The Tempest.
[1] Brind created roles in Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody (1980), Glen Tetley's Dances of Albion (1980), Kenneth MacMillan's Orpheus (1982), David Bintley's Young Apollo (1984) and Michael Corder's Party Game (1984).
In her later years, Brind took full-time care of her second husband, following health problems related to his two strokes, and her mother.