{{Short description|American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher}} {{Infobox person | name = Alan Howard | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = August 7, 1931 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US | death_date = March 6, 2003 | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, US | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Alan Howard''' (1931–2003) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. He was a lead dancer for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
==Biography== ===Early life=== Alan Howard was born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="nytimes">[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/nyregion/alan-howard-72-a-dancer-and-a-teacher.html Alan Howard, 72, a Dancer and a Teacher], ''The New York Times'', March 30, 2003</ref> He learned ballet from Edna McRae.<ref name="nytimes"/>
===Career=== He became a dancer for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1949, soon becoming lead dancer, or ''premier danseur''.<ref name="nytimes"/> He left the company in 1960.<ref name="nytimes"/> He was later a dancer for the Mia Slavenska Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Radio City Music Hall.<ref name="nytimes"/>
He established the Pacific Ballet Academy in San Francisco, California.<ref name="nytimes"/> He choreographed and produced the Pacific Ballet.<ref name="nytimes"/> He also taught ballet.<ref name="nytimes"/> For example, Kyra Nichols, a lead dancer at the New York City Ballet, was one of his students.<ref name="nytimes"/>
In 2005, he appeared in the documentary, ''Ballets Russes.<ref>Leslie Norton, ''Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2007, p. 206 [https://books.google.com/books?id=wecvfSWQKJsC&dq=%22alan+howard%22+ballet&pg=PA206]</ref>''
===Death=== He died of cancer on March 6, 2003, in Chicago.<ref name="nytimes"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Howard.xml Alan Howard Papers] at [https://www.newberry.org Newberry Library] {{Authority control}}
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