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Jacques d’Amboise was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than thirty-three years. In 1976, he founded the National Dance Institute, and is the author of Teaching the Magic of Dance (1983). He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, among them the Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, and fellowships from the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MacArthur Foundation. He has won an Academy Award, six Emmy Awards, and the Peabody Award. He lives in New York City and Hunter, New York.
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I Was a Dancer
Written by Jacques D'Amboise
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and... Read more >
Written by Jacques D'Amboise
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and... Read more >
I Was a Dancer
Written by Jacques D'Amboise
Format: eBook, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $20.99
Read more >
Written by Jacques D'Amboise
Format: eBook, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $20.99
Read more >
