ANDREE HOWARD
(1910 – 1968)
Born October 3, 1910 in London, Howard was a dancer and choreographer, and one of the early members of the Marie Rambert and Sadler Wells companies in London. She choreographed over 30 ballets in her lifetime. She danced for Ballet Theatre in New York (which eventually became the American Ballet Theatre), in 1940 for the company’s debut season, in “Death and the Maiden” and “Lady into Fox.” Soon thereafter, she returned to London to continue her work as a choreographer for the London Ballet, and was most well known for her piece, “La Fete Etrange,” which was based on the novel Le Grand Meaulness. Howard died in April 1968 from an overdose of barbiturate poisoning. Although Howard faded actively out of the dance world toward the end of her life, her work is still appreciated and studied today.
Source: International Encyclopedia of Dance (c. 2004) and “Out of the Spotlight,” by Clive Barnes, NYT, June 30, 1968, p. 16D.
photo source: www.ballet.co.uk (retrieved Oct. 2006)
Title: Correspondence and Contracts
Source: American Ballet Theater Records, 1936-ca. 1967
Location: NYPL
Call # MGZMD 49 (Folders 802, 1176, 1548)
Title: “Premier of Andree Howard’s, ‘Death and the Maiden’ “
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: April 1937, p. 4
Type: Review
Title: “Some recollections of the English ballet”
Author: Lloyd, Maude
Source: Dance Research [London]
Vol/Iss: 3.1
Date: Autumn 1984, p. 39-52 (illus)
Title: “Remembering Andree Howard”
Author: Gilmour, Sally
Source: Dance Research [London]
Vol/Iss: 2.1
Date: Spring 1984, p. 48-60 (illus)
Title: “Ballet in wartime: Part III: The Dramatic ballets of Robert Helpmann”
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: May 1990, p. 794-797 (illus)
Title: “Rambert in wartime” Part II
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: July 1990, p. 994-996 (illus)
Title: “Rambert in wartime: Part I”
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: August 1990, p. 1089-1091 (illus)
Title: “Rambert in wartime”
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: September 1990, p. 1168-1169 (illus)
Title: “The choreography of Andree Howard”
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley
Source: Dance Chronicle [New York]
Vol/Iss: 13.3
Date: Winter 1990-91, p. 265-358 (illus)
Title: “The choreography of Andree Howard: Some Further Information”
Author: Pritchard, Jane
Source: Dance Chronicle [New York]
Vol/Iss: 15.1
Date: 1992, p. 77-87 (illus)
Title: “Andree Howard dies”
Author: Presstime News
Source: Dance Magazine [New York]
Date: June 1968, p. 3
Title: “Andree Howard: Obituary”
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: June 1968, p. 471
Title: “Born under Mercury: Marie Rambert’s five choreographers”
Author: Hobbs, Tarquin
Source: Ballet [London]
Vol/Iss: 2.2
Date: July 1946, p. 57-59 (illus)
Title: “Creator of characters”
Author: Williams, Peter
Source: Dance and Dancers [London]
Date: May 1955, p. 12-13 (illus)
Title: Personality of the month: Andree Howard
Source: Dance and Dancers [London]
Date: Sept. 1957, p. 5
Title: “London Dance Theatre: A new company is formed”
Author: Herf, Estelle
Source: Ballet Today [London]
Date: July 1964, p. 13-15 (illus)
Title: “Andree Howard: An Appreciation”
Author: Rambert, Marie
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: March 1943, p. 265-268 (illus)
Title: Andree Howard
Source: Carnaval [London]
Iss: 1
Date: June 1946, p. 20 (illus)
Title: “Ballets at Edinburgh fete are evaluated by critic”
Author: Clarke, Mary
Source: Dance News [New York]
Date: November 1958, p. 4-10
Title: “Andree Howard found dead”
Source: Dance News [New York]
Date: June 1968, p. 15
Title: “Out of the spotlight”
Author: Barnes, Clive
Source: New York Times (Dance Scrapbook)
Date: June 30, 1968
Title: “La fete etrange: The new Royal Ballet production”
Author: Crichton, Ronald
Source: The Dancing Times [London]
Date: January 1959, p. 177-178
Title: “Love at first sight”
Author: Tobias, Tobi
Source: New York Magazine
Date: March 25, 1985, p. 72-73 (illus)
Title: “Antony Tudor: II”
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley
Source: Dance Now [London]
Vol/Iss: 8.4
Date: Winter 1999/2000, p.
37-65 (illus)
Audio
Title: Interview with Dame Marie Rambert
Doc Type: Sound Recording (2 sound tape reels – 2 hrs, 50 min)
Date: 1974
Title: Death and the Maiden
Author: Howard, Andree
Source: London Institute of Choreology
Date: 1968
Restrictions: Permission required form donor to copy
Call # MGRN 76-1083
Title: Supplement to Complete Book of Ballets
Author/Editor: Beaumont, Cyril W.
Date: 1942
Publication: London
Title: The Thunder and the Freshness
Author: de Zoete, Beryl
Date: 1963
Publication: New York
Title: Twentieth-Century Ballet
Author/Editor: Franks, A.H.
Date: 1954
Publication: New York
Title: Pompette [motion picture]
Date: 1932
Doc Type: 1 reel (3 ½ min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Sailor’s Return [motion picture]
Date: 1947
Doc Type: 1 reel (25 min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Cinderella – excerpts [motion picture]
Date: 1935
Doc Type: 1 reel (4 ½ min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Foyer de danse [motion picture]
Date: 1932
Doc Type: 1 reel (16 min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Lady into Fox [motion picture]
Date: 1940
Doc Type: 1 reel (39 min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Mars and Venus: excerpt [motion picture]
Date: 1932
Doc Type: 1 reel (7 ½ min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Rambert at 90
Date: 1978
Doc Type: Videocassette (62 min)
Producer: BBC-TV, London [Margaret Dale]
Title: La Belle Ecuyere [motion picture]
Date: 1931
Doc Type: 1 reel (2 ½ min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Ballet Rambert: The First Fifty Years [motion picture]
Date: 1976
Doc Type: 2 film reels (63 min) 16 mm
Title: Steps of the ballet [motion picture]
Director: Mathieson, Muir
Date: 1978
Producer: British Council
Doc Type: 1 film reel (25 min) 16 mm b&w
Title: Ballet Club – Programs
Imprint: London
Date: 1931-1937
Title: International Encyclopedia of Dance
Editor: Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Edition: First
Date:2004