Andrie Reid, left, with Josette Bushell-Mingo, centre, and Joan Carol Williams in Mother Poem by Kamau Brathwaite at the Drill Hall in London, 1989. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian My partner, Andrie Reid, who has died aged 73, appeared on British TV in the 1980s as a dancer and actor, as well as on stage in dance shows, operas and plays.