I Was a Dancer - Jacques D'Amboise [216]
pregnancies and miscarriage of, 13.1, 13.2
as SAB director
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Adrian, Father, 18.1, 18.2
Aeschylus
Afar knife, 19.1, 19.2
Afar tribe, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Africa, 12.1, 12.2
Afternoon of a Faun (ballet), 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 15.1
Age of Anxiety (ballet), 17.1
Agon (ballet), 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Ahearn, Andrew Patrick, see d’Amboise, André “Pop”
Ahearn, Georgiana, see d’Amboise, Georgette “Boss”
Ahearn, John, see d’Amboise, Jean
Ahearn, Joseph, see d’Amboise, Jacques
Ahearn, Joseph (Jacques’s grandfather)
Ahearn, Madeleine, see d’Amboise, Ninette
Ahearn, Mary Gavin
Ahearn, Patrick, see d’Amboise, Paul
Ailey, Alvin
Alaska, purchase of
Alexander, Cris, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 20.1, 23.1
Alexander, John
Alexander, Shana, n
Alfredo (Italian stagehand), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Alicia Alonso Company
Alonso, Alicia, 3.1, 13.1
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Ballet, 3.1, 6.1, 14.1
American Ballet Theatre, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 21.1
American Revolution
America’s Most Wanted, 16.1
Amram, David, 19.1, 19.2
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Avenue, as racial dividing line
Ana (nurse)
Annau, Tamara, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5
Apollo (Apollon Musagète; ballet), 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 23.1
Apollo (Stravinsky), 19.1, 19.2
Appalachian Trail, xv
Applegate, Christina
Arabian Nights, The, 12.1
Ardolino, Emile, 19.1, 19.2
Armenians
Arshansky, Misha, 3.1, 10.1
Ashley, Merrill, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 18.1, 23.1
Ashton, Frederick, 3.1, 5.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1
Asian Cultural Council
Associated Press
Astor, John Jacob
Astoria Hotel, Leningrad, 12.1, 12.2
Atacama Desert
At Mother’s Request (Coleman), 18.1
Auden, W. H.
Audubon, John James, 2.1, 2.2
Australia, 10.1, 10.2
Avildsen, John
Babi Yar
Baku, Azerbaijan, 12.1, 12.2
Balanchine, Andrei, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Balanchine, George, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 23.1, 23.2
Adams as obsession of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 13.2
Agon staged by, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Apollo stagings by, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 23.1
ballerinas as muses for, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 13.1
Ballets 1933 and, 6.1, 12.1
Ballet Society and, 3.1, 6.1
choreographic method of, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contracted by, 15.1, 15.2
critics and
Danilova’s marriage to, 3.1, 6.1, 13.1
death of, 17.1, 17.2
defection of
Don Quixote staged by, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Episodes staged by (with Graham), 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
European career of
failing health of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Figure in the Carpet staged by, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
Firebird stagings by, 4.1, 10.1, 18.1
food as passion of, 8.1, 13.1
funeral and burial of
Geva’s marriage to, 6.1, 13.1
hospitalizations of, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2
humanity of
and Jacques’s joining of NYCB
Kirstein’s relationship with, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1
LeClercq’s divorce from
LeClercq’s marriage to, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
LeClercq’s polio and, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1
legacy of, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 23.1
lured to U.S. by Kirstein, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
male dancers as surrogates for
as mentor, 10.1, 10.2
NDI and, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 19.2
Nutcracker staging by, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 17.1
on Oboukhoff
at SAB, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
self-confidence of, 3.1, 6.1
in Soviet tour, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8
and succession issue
success of dancers and other choreographers resented by, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 17.1
Tallchief’s marriage to, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux staged by, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
technique as taught by, 8.1, 13.1, 15.1
on translating Pushkin
on Vladimiroff, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Zorina’s marriage to, 3.1,