Eveline Burchill

Eveline Burchill (20 November 1905 – 18 January 1987) was an Irish dancer, dance teacher and judge, and choreographer.

Early life Eveline Burchill was born in Cork on 20 November 1905. She was one of four children of James Orr Burchill and Lucy Burchill (née Power). Her father was the managing director of the Singer sewing-machine company. The family moved to Dublin and lived on Eaton Square, Terenure. Burchill attended the Diocesan School, Dublin. On the advice of their family doctor, due to her delicate health, Burchill took up dancing. She moved to London to study dance full-time as a teenager, studying ballet under Judith Espinosa and ballroom dancing from Josephine Bradley. She performed in a ballet at the Plaza Theatre, London at age 15.

Later life and death Burchill was an adjudicator at ballroom dancing competitions across Britain and Europe, including the International Ballroom Dancing Championships in the Albert Hall, London in 1963. She regularly attended the London congress of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing as a fellow. Lynn Doyle wrote two ballets for Burchill, The servants’ ball and Wild oats. When she moved out of her St Stephen's Green flat, she relocated to Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin. She died in a nursing home in County Dublin on 18 January 1987 and is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.