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−	[[Dulcie Howes]] (31 December 1908 – 19 March 1993) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.	+	[[Dulcie Howes]] (31 December, 1908 – 19 March, 1993) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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−	[[Dulcie Howes]] (1908-19*) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.	+	[[Dulcie Howes]] (31 December 1908 – 19 March 1993) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.

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-[[Dulcie Howes]] (18*-19*) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.
+[[Dulcie Howes]] (1908-19*) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and administrator.
-== Biography ==
+As a child she took dancing lessons with [[Helen Webb]]. These classes concentrated more on deportment and what was known then as “fancy dancing”. She later took ballet instruction from [[Helen White]], who had studied with Cecchetti.
-She was the ballet mistress of a ballet school in Cape Town, known as the [[Cape Town Ballet Company]]. After the very successful opening of ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' she was approached by professor [[William H. Bell]] to bring her ballet school under the wing of the College of Music, as the [[UCT Ballet School]].
+She was the ballet mistress of a ballet school in Cape Town, known as the [[Cape Town Ballet Company]]. After the very successful opening of ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' she was approached by professor [[William Bell]] to bring her ballet school under the wing of the College of Music, as the [[UCT Ballet School]].
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 == Sources ==
 [[Saturday Post]], March 29, 1947.

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 == Contribution to South African theatre ==
 December 1947: Sponsored by the [[Association of Arts]], [[Dulcie Howes]] brought her [[Cape Town Ballet Company]] to King William's Town for one ballet performance and then moved to East London for three performances at the [[East London City Hall]]. Two of her accompanying students,[[Maurice Metliss]] and [[Renee Feller]], the latter being one of the principal dancers, were from East London.
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 (?): Directed [[Eleanor Farjeon]]'s musical fantasy ''[[The Silver Curlew]]'' and presented by the [[Port Elizabeth Children's Theatre]] at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] as a fund raiser for the Port Elizabeth School Feeding Fund. Music by [[Clifton Parker]] with special arrangements by [[Felicia Lifson]] and [[Don Gallaway]].
 == Sources ==
 [[Saturday Post]], October 4, 1947.

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 [[Donald Inskip]] 1972. ''Forty [[Little Theatre|Little]] Years: The Story of a Theatre''.  Cape Town: Howard Timmins.
-''[[The Siver Curlew]]'' theatre programme, undated.
+''[[The Silver Curlew]]'' theatre programme, undated.
 [[Donald Inskip]] 1976. ''The [[Maynardville]] Chronicle, 1956-1976''. Epping: Printpak.

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 [[Donald Inskip]] 1972. ''Forty [[Little Theatre|Little]] Years: The Story of a Theatre''.  Cape Town: Howard Timmins.
 [[Donald Inskip]] 1976. ''The [[Maynardville]] Chronicle, 1956-1976''. Epping: Printpak.
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 ''Dulcie Howes: Pioneer of Ballet in South Africa''. Cape Town: [[Human & Rousseau]]; 1996. ISBN 0-7981-3651-0.
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		+	1972 (?): Directed [[Eleanor Farjeon]]'s musical fantasy ''[[The Silver Curlew]]'' and presented by the [[Port Elizabeth Children's Theatre]] at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] as a fund raiser for the Port Elizabeth School Feeding Fund. Music by [[Clifton Parker]] with special arrangements by [[Felicia Lifson]] and [[Don Gallaway]].

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 == Contribution to South African theatre ==
-December 1947: Sponsored by the [[Association of Arts]], [[Dulcie Howes]] brought her [[Cape Town Ballet Company]] to King William's Town for one ballet performance and then moved to East London for three performances at the [[East London City Hall]]. [[Maurice Metliss]] and [[Renee Feller]], the latter one of the principal dancers, two of her accompanying students, were from East London.
+December 1947: Sponsored by the [[Association of Arts]], [[Dulcie Howes]] brought her [[Cape Town Ballet Company]] to King William's Town for one ballet performance and then moved to East London for three performances at the [[East London City Hall]]. Two of her accompanying students,[[Maurice Metliss]] and [[Renee Feller]], the latter being one of the principal dancers, were from East London.
 Through the recommendation of [[William H. Bell|Bell]], Howes also became the next Director of the [[Little Theatre]] in Cape Town.