Andrée Howard

Andrée Howard
Born
Louise Andréa Enriqueta Howard[1]

(1910-10-03)3 October 1910
Died18 April 1968(1968-04-18) (aged 57)
Marylebone, London, England
Other namesLouise Barton
OccupationBallet choreographer

Andrée Howard (3 October 1910 – 18 April 1968), originally Louise Andréa Enriqueta Howard, was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. She created over 30 ballets.[2]

Early life

Louise Andréa Enriqueta Howard[3] was born on 3 October 1910. Her career as a dancer began as a pupil of Marie Rambert and she also studied in Paris where she danced in early performances of Léonide Massine's Les Présages.[2]

Career

Her ballet Death and the Maiden (choreography and costumes) for Ballet Rambert based on the music by Franz Schubert was premiered at the Duchess Theatre, London, on 23 February 1937, danced by herself as The Maiden, and John Bryon as Death. On 18 January 1940, it received its American Ballet Theatre premiere at The Center Theatre, New York, danced by Howard, and with Kurt Karnakoski as Death.[4]

Her 1939 Lady into Fox was based on David Garnett's 1922 first novel under his own name Lady into Fox. Reviewing the 2006 reinterpretation, Judith Mackrell of The Guardian called it "a seminal Ballet Rambert work". Unfortunately, all that choreographer Mark Baldwin could find of the original choreography was a 12-minute jerky silent film. Baldwin stated: "There are all these fabulous ballets like Lady Into Fox still waiting for us to dip into. The past is such a fabulous resource."[5]

Her best known work is La fête étrange (1940) created for the short-lived London Ballet and premiered at the Arts Theatre, London on 23 May 1940.[6][7] It was based on an episode in Alain Fournier's novel Le Grand Meaulnes, with a significantly adapted libretto by Ronald Crichton, who also chose the six piano pieces and songs used in the score (orchestrated by Guy Warrack). Stage design and costumes were by Sophie Fedorovitch.[8] The piece was so successful that it was taken up by The Royal Ballet in 1958[6] and has since been performed over 200 times by them and by Scottish Ballet.[9] A 1958 film of the Royal Ballet production exists.[10] More recent revivals have used am orchestration by Lennox Berkeley.[11]

In 1938, she was one of the founding members of Antony Tudor's London Ballet along with Hugh Laing, Agnes de Mille, Peggy van Praagh, Maude Lloyd and Walter Gore. With the onset of World War II, in 1940 was invited with them to New York, joining Richard Pleasant's and Lucia Chase's reorganised Ballet Theater. Chase's company was later to become the American Ballet Theatre.

In 1946, Mardi gras featured Nadia Nerina's first created role, dancing alongside John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan and Peter Darrell.[12]

In 1947, Howard created The Sailor's Return for Ballet Rambert, based David Garnett's 1925 novel, The Sailor's Return. The story involves a West African princess marrying an English sailor and then encountering racial prejudice in England. In Dance Research, Susan Jones noted that the ballet "offers a striking critique of racism in a realist mode" and comments on "her important contribution to narrative ballet and the distinctiveness of her presentation of female experience in the period".[13]

In 1948, the Crown Film Unit released the film, Steps of the Ballet, with choreography by Howard, music by Arthur Benjamin, directed by Muir Mathieson, decor and costumes by Hugh Stevenson, and narration by Robert Helpmann. The dancers were Gerd Larsen, Alexander Grant, Gordon Hamilton, Elaine Fifield, Michael Boulton, Michael Bayston, Jeanne Artois, Peter Wright, Moyra Fraser, Leila Russell[14] Also in 1948, Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet premiered Selina, choreographed to the music of Rossini by Howard, with scenario and design by Peter Williams, conducted by Guy Warrack. Elaine Fifield was the lead dancer.[15][16]

A Mirror for Witches premiered on 4 March 1952, with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, at the Royal Opera House. It was based on the novel A Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes, and consisted of a prologue and five scenes, with music by Denis ApIvor and set design by Norman Adams RA.[17] The Spectator described Howard as "both brave and wise in her selection, because ballets of such serious import seldom enjoy a popular appeal, and because we are sick to death of those eternal period frolics which challenge neither choreographer, dancer nor spectator."[18]

La Belle dame sans merci premiered on 4 September 1958, with the Edinburgh International Ballet, Empire Theatre, Edinburgh. The Royal Ballet premiere was on 2 September 1959. The composer was Alexander Goehr. It was based on the poem of the same title by John Keats. Howard also designed the sets and the costumes.[19] Clive Barnes for The Spectator called it a "weak-kneed, indeterminate work".[20]

In 1968, Howard died at her home in Marylebone, London, of a drug overdose, while suffering from depression.[21]

Ballets created

  • Death and the Maiden (1937)
  • Lady into Fox (1939)
  • La fête étrange, or Assembly Ball (1940)
  • Carnival of Animals (1943)
  • Le Festin de l'araignée (1944)
  • The Sailor's Return (1947)
  • Mardi gras (1946)
  • Selina (1948)
  • A Mirror for Witches (1952)
  • La Belle Dame sans merci (1958)
  • The Mermaid
  • Cinderella

Legacy

The Andrée Howard Archive is held by Ballet Rambert in its Special Collections.[22]

References

  1. ^ Profile, jstor.org. Accessed 4 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Andree Howard – 2. Choreographers – Ballet Alert!". Balletalert.invisionzone.com. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  3. ^ Profile, jstor.org. Accessed 4 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Death and the Maiden". ABT. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  5. ^ Add answer (8 November 2006). "Judith Mackrell on David Garnett's Lady into Fox | Stage". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b Royal Opera House Collections
  7. ^ La fête étrange, Oxford Reference
  8. ^ "Royal Ballet – Marguerite and Armand – La Fete Etranger – Pierrot Lunaire – John Percival". Danceviewtimes.com. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  9. ^ Percival, John. 'La Fête étrange' review in The Times, 18 February, 1974, p 10
  10. ^ British Film Institute: La Fête Etrange (1958)
  11. ^ Wise Music
  12. ^ "Royal Opera House Collections Online". rohcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  13. ^ Jones, Susan (2008). "From Text to Dance: Andrée Howard's The Sailor's Return". Dance Research. 26: 1–17. doi:10.3366/E0264287508000030. S2CID 194041859.
  14. ^ British Council Film. "British Council Film: Steps of the Ballet". Film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  15. ^ Photographs from Royal Opera House Collections Online
  16. ^ Peter Williams Collection
  17. ^ "Royal Opera House Collections Online". rohcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  18. ^ "BALLET " 14 Mar 1952 " The Spectator Archive". The Spectator. 14 March 1952. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Ballet: Production details". Rohcollections.org.uk. 2 September 1959. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  20. ^ "Edinburgh Ballet " 10 Sep 1959 " The Spectator Archive". The Spectator. 10 September 1959. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  21. ^ The Montreal Gazette, 20 April 1968
  22. ^ "Rambert's History – Special Collections". Rambert. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.

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