Remembering Andrée Howard

My first performances with the Rambert company were made when I was still a schoolgirl. I appeared in Mars and Venus, in the Scotch Rhapsody in Facade, in Cross-Garter'd and similar works at the company's regular Sunday night performances. I was only 15 years old, but my boarding school let me off on Sundays for these performances because I was already attending the Rambert school as a student, and whenever Marie Rambert needed a dancer in those days she would simply take someone out of the school and recruit them for the Sunday night show. It was heaven for me as a school girl, and my school was very understanding. My parents had told the staff that they knew that what I wanted most of all was to dance, but that it might be a good idea if I learned a little arithmetic and a few other academic subjects as well. I left boarding school when I was 15, and stayed with Deborah Deering who was a fellow Rambert student and her parents while I studied full time at the Rambert school. Ashley Dukes' sister used to come and teach us French literature after

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• The choreography of Andrée Howard

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  Open Access•Susan Jones, Susan H Jones•Dance Research•2008

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