While at the School of American Ballet she studied with Oboukoff, Pierre Vladimiroff, Ann Barzel, and Muriel Stuart.
[4] In 1949, Allard left New York for Paris, motivated to study with the famous Russian ballerinas Lubov Egorova, Olga Preobrajenska, and Nicholai Zveroff from the Diaghilev ballet.
During the Paris years Allard was contracted at several locales: Theatre du Chatelet as soloist, music and ballet festivals with John Taras as choreographer at Aix en Provence and Geneva, Switzerland; opera season in Genoa, Italy; Danse et Culture as a soloist touring France; and the company "Le Rendezvous Manqué" with John Taras, touring Paris, Monte Carlo, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Boston, and New York.
Allard took a year-long leave of absence from 1963 to 1964 to dance with the Jazz Ballet in Stockholm, and then as Premiere danseuse at the National Opera in Tel Aviv, where she also taught company classes.
From 1984 to 1985 Allard was at the La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan as teacher and assistant under the direction of Rosella Hightower.