To watch Jacques d’Amboise, the legendary New York City Ballet dancer who died this week at the age of 86 due to complications from a stroke, coach dancers in the roles he had performed over the course of his long career was to see an artist who not only possessed formidable insight, but also exuded […]

With COVID-19 dominating headlines, good news has a way of slipping under the radar. But despite the uncertainty, companies and artists are still looking to the future and making moves. Here are the latest promotions, appointments and transfers, plus notable awards and accomplishments from the last month. Comings & Goings At Boston Ballet, Tigran Mkrtchyan […]

In the October 1969 issue of Dance Magazine, we spoke with Jacques d’Amboise, then 20 years into his career with New York City Ballet. Though he became a principal dancer in 1953, the star admitted that it hadn’t all been smooth sailing. “I knew that I was terrible in my first Apollo,” he told us, […]

George Balanchine famously wrote, that ballet “is a woman.” Four of his most celebrated women—Allegra Kent, Gloria Govrin, Kay Mazzo and Merrill Ashley—appeared onstage at Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute Monday evening to celebrate his legacy. The sold-out program, called “Balanchine’s Ballerinas,” included performances of excerpts from ballets closely associated with these women and a […]

At the Dance on Camera Kickoff Gala on July 16, Dance Films Association honored two beloved dance artists from different generations: Jacques d’Amboise and Trey McIntyre. After a composite of d’Amboise’s charismatic dancing was shown, Jacques regaled us with stories. He didn’t talk about dancing for Mr. B, he didn’t talk about his dazzling turns […]

After 50 years, George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet male dancers—Jacques d’Amboise, Edward Villella and Arthur Mitchell—were reunited. The one-night-only event at the National Dance Institute in New York City (founded by d’Amboise in 1976) provided a rare glimpse of what it was like to work with Mr. B. during ballet’s golden years at NYCB. […]

When Jacques d’Amboise talks about dance, his eyes light up, his chest opens and his famously handsome smile takes over his face. It’s immediately clear that the former New York City Ballet star, now a spirited age 83, has a love of dance that doesn’t tire. Today, he’s creating new generations of dance lovers through […]