Ballet dancer and teacher. Beaver danced in leading roles staged by Louise Lightfoot and Mischa Burlakov for their First Australian Ballet, including the Ballerina in the first ever production of Petrouchka in Australia in 1936. She established a partnership with Gordon Hamilton and performed with him in the First Australian Ballet's production Le Carnaval in 1937. She also danced for the J. C. Williamson company in musicals, including Funny side up in 1940 and with the Polish-Australian Ballet and Leon Kellaway's Ballet Nationale. In Paris she studies with Lubov Egorova and toured Denmark with the Ballets de la jeunesse. Beaver began teaching in the 1930s at the Lightfoot Burlakov School and later established her own school in Sydney.
From the description of Papers of Moya Beaver [manuscript]. 1918-1973. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224140056