I Was a Dancer - Jacques D'Amboise [218]
Colette, n
Collins, Janet
Collins, Judy, 15.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5
Cologne, Germany, 9.1, 23.1
Colt, Alvin, n
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Comiskey, Jimmy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 12.1
as NYCB fan
Company (musical), 23.1
Concert, The (ballet), 5.1, 15.1
Concerto Barocco (ballet), 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Connolly, Joseph
Contact (musical), 23.1
Cooke, Hope
Copeland, Leslie
Copenhagen, 9.1, 12.1, 23.1
Coppélia (ballet), 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
Corsaire, Le (ballet), 12.1
Cortège Hongrois (ballet), 13.1
costumes, of male dancers
Cragun, Richard
Crandall, Kelly
Cranko, John, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1
Crete, ancient, bull dancers in
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, 15.1, 15.2
Crowell, Ann
Croydon, England
Cuba
Cuban missile crisis, 12.1, 23.1
Cullberg, Birgit, 10.1, 10.2
Cummings, Jack, 8.1, 8.2
Cunningham, Merce, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Dalai Lama
Dalí, Salvador
d’Amboise, Adèle
d’Amboise, Alexina
d’Amboise, André “Pop” (Andrew Patrick Ahearn), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 23.1
adopted name deliberately mispronounced by
background of
in Clearwater
death of
divorce of Boss and
as elevator operator, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
and Jacques’s performances
as Joe Kennedy’s telegraph operator, 1.1, 1.2
in Maine, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
marriage of Boss and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 11.1, 11.2, 20.1
as nurse’s aide, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1
separation of Boss and, 7.1, 11.1
as storyteller
as telegraph operator, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
as unemployed, 1.1, 1.2
work ethic of, 1.1, 1.2
in World War, II
d’Amboise, Carolyn, see George, Carolyn “Carrie”
d’Amboise, Catherine, 11.1, 17.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
birth of
d’Amboise, Charlotte, 11.1, 19.1, 23.1, 23.2
birth of
as dancer, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 23.1
d’Amboise, Christopher, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 23.1
ballet career of, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 23.1
birth of
childhood of, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2
d’Amboise, David Bergeron, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
d’Amboise, Emélia
d’Amboise, George, xv, 11.1, 17.1, 23.1
birth of
as cancer-free
cancer of, 11.1, 23.1
childhood of, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
d’Amboise, Georgette “Boss” (Georgiana Ahearn), 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1
childhood of, 1.1, 1.2
Clearwater home of
combined charm and determination of
death of
divorce of Pop and
family name change engineered by, 3.1, 8.1
frugality of
investments of, 11.1, 11.2
Jacques’s and Ninette’s music and performance lessons arranged by, 3.1, 3.2
and Jacques’s fight with Farel
Jacques urged to study ballet by, 2.1, 11.1
and marriage of Jacques and Carrie
marriage of Pop and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 11.1, 11.2, 20.1
Novena and
as nurse’s aide, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1
separation of Pop and, 7.1, 11.1
in Staten Island
stories told by, 1.1, 1.2
as terrible driver
will of
d’Amboise, Jacques, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 23.1, 23.2
in Ballet Society, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
boys’ ballet class started by, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
Carrie and, see George, Carolyn “Carrie”
in Hamburg streetcar accident, 12.1, 12.2, 23.1
knee problems of, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 23.1
NDI and, see National Dance Institute
in NYCB, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
in retirement from dancing, 19.1, 19.2
at SAB, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 20.1, 23.1
in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
16 mm camera of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
as surrogate for Balanchine
television performances of, 2.1, 8.1, 13.1, 16.1, 19.1
d’Amboise, Jacques, childhood and adolescence of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
acting lessons of, 3.1, 3.2
birth of
in Catholic schools, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
and desire to fly
at King-Coit School
music in
Novena and
in Paris, 5.1, 5.2
with