Peter Williams (dance critic)

Peter Lancelot Williams (12 June 1914 – 10 August 1995) was an English designer and dance critic.

He founded and edited the monthly magazine Dance and Dancers for thirty years, wrote columns for national newspapers and was an influential chairman of various committees and trusts.

[1] He was the son of Godfrey Williams, an army officer from a Cornish family who had been a Major in the 11th Hussars.

[1][3] During this period, he became assistant editor of Ballet, a magazine established just before the war by critic Richard Buckle.

[1] He resigned in 1950 and then founded, designed and edited Dance and Dancers, the first of a family of arts magazines published by Philip Dosse.

Among them are Covent Garden: 25 Years of Opera and Ballet, Royal Opera House (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971); Ballets et Danseurs dans le Monde: Photographs de Serge Lido, with Odon-Jerôme Lemaitre (Paris: Éditions Vilo, 1973); and 50 Years of Ballet Rambert, 1926–1976, with Clement Crisp and Anya Sainsbury (Ilkley, West Yorkshire: Scolar Press, 1976).

[1] His final years were spent in a nursing home in St Clement, Cornwall where he died of a heart attack on 10 August 1995.