I Was a Dancer - Jacques D'Amboise [219]
piano lessons of
in Staten Island, 1.1, 1.2, 23.1
in Washington Heights, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 18.1
d’Amboise, Jean (John Ahearn), 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 23.1
childhood of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
in World War, II, 3.1, 3.2
d’Amboise, Jeanne
d’Amboise, Kathleen, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 23.1
d’Amboise, Marie Pelletier, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
d’Amboise, Mary Cruthers, 7.1, 11.1, 23.1
d’Amboise, Maureen
d’Amboise, Ninette (Madeleine Ahearn), 11.1, 19.1, 23.1
acting lessons of, 3.1, 3.2
childhood of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
first ballet classes of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 23.1, 23.2
at King-Coit School
marriage of Mel Kiddon and, 5.1, 7.1
in NYCB, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
piano lessons of
at SAB, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 23.1
d’Amboise, Paul (Patrick Ahearn), 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 23.1
ballet studies of, 3.1, 3.2
childhood of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
as dancer, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Damn Yankees (musical), 23.1
Da Mummy, Nyet Mummy (ballet), 12.1
Danakil Desert, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
dance
as communication
teaching of
see also ballet
Dance in America, 19.1
Dance on a May Day (film), 19.1
Dances at a Gathering (ballet), 17.1
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Danielian, Leon
Daniella (Chilean girl), 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Danilova, Alexandra, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Dark Rapture (film), 12.1
Darwin, Charles, 12.1, 12.2
Dave’s Candy Store, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
David, Irene Rosner, n
David (Michelangelo), 3.1, 8.1
Davidbündlertänze (ballet), see Robert Schumann’s “Davidbündlertänze”
Day in the Life of Coney Island, A (NDI event), 19.1
Dead Sea
de Basil, Colonel
Dedham, Mass., 1.1, 1.2
de Jesus Santos, José
Delibes, Léo
Denison University
Dhananjayan Academy of Dance
Diaghilev, Serge, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1
Diker, Val
Dimitriev, Vladimir, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
Dirty Dancing (film), 19.1
Disneyland
Distler, Jed
Divas (Nepalese boy), 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Divertimento (ballet), 3.1, 3.2
Doll, Eugenia
Dollar, William, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 12.1
Dominican Order
Donaldson, Jack, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Donen, Stanley, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Donizetti Variations (ballet), 12.1, 12.2
Donn, Jorge
Don Quixote (ballet), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 19.1
Doubrovska, Felia, 3.1, 3.2, 15.1
Dou Dou Huang
Driver, Don
Dryden, Richard
Duel, The (ballet), 10.1
Duell, Dan, n
Duell, Joseph, 17.1, 17.2
Dunham, Katherine, 9.1, 9.2
Dunleavy, Rosemary, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
Dunning, Jennifer
Duo Concertante (ballet), 13.1
Duvalier, François “Papa Doc”
Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc”, n
Dybbuk (ballet), 15.1, 15.2
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 16.1
Efimov, Nicholas
Eglevsky, André, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2
Eilber, Janet, n
Ein Gedi kibbutz, 19.1, 19.2
Electronics (ballet), 13.1
Elliott, Clinton
endorphin high, 10.1, 10.2
Enfant et les Sortilèges, L’ (Ravel), 3.1, 3.2
Episcopal Church of the Intercession
Episodes (ballet), 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
Erdman, Jean
Ernst, Max
Estoril, Portugal
Eugene Onegin (ballet), 5.1, 5.2
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 5.1
Everest, Mount
Evgeny (Russian photojournalist)
Famwoods (gang), 2.1, 3.1
Jacques’s fight with
Farel, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Jacques’s fight with
switchblade of, 3.1, 3.2
Farrell, Suzanne, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 18.1, 19.1, 23.1, 23.2
Balanchine’s firing of
in Béjart company
in return to NYCB
Fat City (NDI Event), 15.1
Faulkner, William
Feldman, Morton
Felix (Intourist guide), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
fencing
Figaro, Le, 4.1
Figure in the Carpet, The (ballet), 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
Filling Station (ballet), 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 14.1
Firebird, The (ballet), 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 18.1
Chagall’s scenery and costumes for, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Fischl, Eric
Fizdale, Robert, 18.1, 18.2
flamenco
Florence, Italy
Florida, 1.1, 1.2
Fonteyn, Margot
Ford, Johnny, 3.1, 3.2
Ford Foundation, 13.1, 15.1, 19.1
Foreman, Donlin, 8.1, 19.1
Fort Tryon Park
Fosse, Bob
Foster, Alex
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