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Peter A.Goss was born at Firth Park in Sheffield in 1940. He was educated at Walkley County School. When he left, aged 15, he found a job as a bricklayer. The working conditions were awful and his hands were soon a wreck. He left after three weeks. However, he had an uncle at William Skidmore, the surgical instrument manufacturer. This firm had been founded in the nineteenth century and for many years was based at the quaintly-named Enema Works in Cemetery Road. Peter began surgical instrument forging. He recalled that Skidmore’s had about four forgers on the premises, who manufactured a wide range of forceps, clamps, pliers, and other items too numerous (or grisly) to mention.

There was no formal apprenticeship. Peter was expected to pick the job up himself. He considered that he was competent at forging by the time he was 18: certainly by then, he had his own ‘price list’ of tools he could make. It was all piece work. Eventually, he was the only forger remaining. Th

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Peter Goss

Peter Goss, né à Johannesburg le , est un danseur, professeur et chorégraphe de danse contemporainefrançais d'origine sud-africaine.

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En opposition avec l'apartheid qui règne dans son pays, il quitte l'Afrique du Sud à l'âge de 27 ans et se rend à Londres pour y étudier l'anthropologie et la danse. Il y commence une formation de danse, qu'il poursuit ensuite aux États-Unis.

Arrivé en France en 1969, il y crée sa propre compagnie et ouvre en 1981 une école réputée à Paris, qui jouxte le New Morning. Il est notamment le professeur de danse des acteurs de Patrice Chereau au Théâtre des Amandiers à Nanterre en 1984. De 1986 à 1992, sa compagnie est en résidence au Théâtre Paul-Éluard de Choisy-le-Roi. Depuis 1990, il est professeur de danse contemporaine au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. En 1993, il met un terme à ses activités de chorégraphe pour se consacrer à la formation des danseurs, notamment à micadanses à Paris.

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Biography

OUTSTANDING YACHTSMAN, INSPIRATIONAL ADVENTURER, COMPANY DIRECTOR and AUTHOR of best selling book ‘Close to the Wind’.

Pete has competed in seven transatlantic and two round-the-world races and has sailed more than 300,000 nautical miles.

A former Royal Marine, Pete has taken on numerous endeavours that share the same four principles; innovation, technology, challenge and adventure. An acclaimed International Speaker, he draws on his experiences to offer leadership and management talks, team-building exercises and training sessions, inspiring individuals and groups to achieve beyond what they thought possible.

A regular lecturer at business schools, he is an Associate Fellow of Said Business School Oxford University.

Recently Pete built the 37’ Cornish Lugger ‘Spirit of Mystery’ (as seen on BBC Coast) which he sailed with family members, including his fourteen year old son, to Melbourne. This recreated the voyage of the smallest migrant vessel to make it to Australia 150 years ago. Rowing out of harbour and navigat