Dancer, educator Jacques d’Amboise of US dies aged 86
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Jacques d’Amboise, who combined classical elegance with all-American verve and athleticism to become one of the top male dancers at the New York City Ballet, then spent more than four decades providing free dance education to countless youngsters through his National Dance Institute, has died aged 86.
His death was confirmed by Ellen Weinstein, director of the New York-based institute.
She said the dancer and teacher had died on Sunday at his New York City home from complications of a stroke. He was surrounded by his family.
Plucked for stardom at the New York City Ballet as a teenager by its legendary director, George Balanchine, d’Amboise performed with the company for about 35 years before retiring just before he turned 50.
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In an interview with The Associated Press in 2018, d’Amboise described the moment he decided to end his dance career in 1984.
“I was almost 50, there were only a few roles left that I could do,” he said. “I was waiting to go onstage, and I suddenly thought, ’I don’t want to go on. I danced, came off, took off my ballet shoes and quit.”
He had already long determined his next calling, founding the National Dance Institute in 1976. The joy he took in providing a dance education to kids who might otherwise never have tried the art form in schools, or for some, in classes at the institute was on full display in the Oscar-winning 1983 documentary “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin,’” a look at his NDI work.
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