Instructor
After closing her performing career, Andrée Marlière became a sought-after coach and ballet mistress who specialised in rebuilding and rehearsing existing works. Her method was meticulous. She learned every part in a ballet, codified style and musical phrasing, and transmitted the choreographer’s intent to each cast so revivals kept their character and precision.
In 1964 she joined the Ballet School of the City of Antwerp as a classical-repertoire teacher. From 1970 she entered the artistic staff of the Royal Ballet of Flanders, where she served as première maîtresse de ballet and took part in company management during a key period of growth.
From 1984 to 1989 she was Ballettmeisterin at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. From 1989 onward she returned to Antwerp as a repertoire teacher, continuing to stage and coach works for students and young professionals.
Selected reconstructions and stagings
Royal Ballet of Flanders (Antwerp)
- Cage of God by John Carter
- Pas de Six by August Bournonville, from Napoli
- Opus Eén by John Cranko
- Ain Dor by Moshe Efrati
- Allegro Brillante by George Balanchine
- Kaleidoscope by John Butler
- After Eden by John Butler
- Brandenburg Drie by Tscharny
- Cantus Firmus by Jeanne Brabants
- Dialogue by Jeanne Brabants
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and guest stages
- Peter and the Wolf by Germinal Casado
- Carmina Burana by Germinal Casado
- Sylvia by Germinal Casado, Łódź
- The Three Musketeers by Germinal Casado, Toulouse
- Songe d’une nuit d’été by Germinal Casado, Athens
- Whimsicalities by Nils Christe, Conservatoire de la Danse, Paris
- Cantus by Jeanne Brabants, Antwerp Ballet School
- Salvé Antwerpia by Jeanne Brabants, Antwerp Ballet School
- Bal des Cadets after Michel Fokine, Antwerp Ballet School
- Paquita after Marius Petipa, Antwerp Ballet School
Additional choreography
Alongside revivals and coaching, Marlière also created original pieces and theatre dances, including: Twee harten in driekwartsmaat to music by Jef Maes for the Royal Flemish Opera in 1967, Eine Nacht in Venedig to Johann Strauss for the Royal Flemish Opera in 1968, Études to Robert Stolz for the Royal Flemish Opera in 1970, Auftrag to Dmitri Shostakovich for the Badische Staatsoper Karlsruhe in 1985, and later works for the Antwerp Ballet School such as Fanfare in 1992, Dances Roumaines in 1994, and Oiseau de Feu in 2000.
Her teaching and staging helped anchor classical and neoclassical standards in Flanders while keeping a living link to twentieth-century creators such as Balanchine, Butler, Brabants, Cranko, and Casado. The result is a body of instruction that shaped generations of dancers in Belgium and abroad.