46:. Howard opened his popular eponymous dance studio in New York City, the David Howard School of Ballet (later the David Howard Dance Center) in 1977, before its closure in 1995. His dance center welcomed all students including children, adult beginners and professionals from the Broadway musicals and ballet. In addition to his teaching, Howard was an expert on the history of the
74:. Howard was a soloist at the Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet, the forerunner of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. From the Royal Ballet he briefly joined the National Ballet of Canada, and returned to london in the early 1960s. Howard performed in musicals in London before a back injury ended his performing career, and began to train as a hairdresser, which further hurt his back.
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106:. McBride paid tribute to Howard describing him as "...one of the great teachers of our day, for many, many years," and Baryshnikov said of Howard that "He was a kind of father figure for people like me and like Gelsey."
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