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“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”

In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life in dance, and of America’s most renowned and admired dance companies.

He writes of his classical studies beginning at the age of eight at The School of American Ballet. At twelve he was asked to perform with B

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I Was a Dancer by Jacques D'Amboise Book Review

Name: Mike Ellis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting History
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023
Review: Well written, interesting photos. Bought used good quality. Good price

Name: Eileen Pollock
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Mixed Ballet Bag
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2011
Review: Jacques D'Amboise was a great dancer, a mainstay of City Ballet for many years, and a Balanchine protege. But the book desperately needed a proactive editor. There is too much filler, too much biographical prologue, too much irrelevant anecdote not bearing on ballet. Unlike Edward Villella's memoir, whose development is placed in the context of the relationship of a rebellious son to a father, Jacques D'Amboise's memoir is a series of anecdotes, some more amusing than others. What I miss most is the lack of a personal relationship with Balanchine. D'Amboise danced everything, but somehow I'm not getting the feeling that he had a relationship with his chief mentor. There is a vulgarity, a raunchiness that could have been omitted, at least those are my standards which conceivably may not reflect the standards of those who are interested in reading about ballet. Who needed to know TMI about Lincoln Kirstein, or that George Balanchine may have made a highly inappropriate remark at the untimely death of a choreographic competitor? That such an anecdote is included reflects a lack of editorial judgment that lowers the class level of this project.

Now here's the good news. In the middle of his memoir, D'Amboise describes his trip to hell (the Company's trip) to Moscow and Petrograd (Balanchine's nomenclature) in 1962 and the narrative picks up steam. Still a bit too much about blini and caviar and vodka toasts, but at least something, something is happening that engages the reader's interest.

In a following chapter, we get a sudden change of editorial style - describing Balanchine's muses, D'Amboise suddenly waxes romantic, the prose vivid with a delicacy lacking before. What happened? Who has picked up this manuscript and rescued it? The descriptions of Maria Tallchief, of Tanny LeClerq, of Diana Adams especially, have all the blood and fire that has been missing in this book til now. Perhaps Balanchine's muses inspired Jacques D'Amboise, too. Perhaps Knopf belatedly hired a book doctor. D'Amboise interestingly describes himself as Balanchine's surrogate in Balanchine's courtship ritual with his chosen ballerina, an apt observation. He lets us in on Diana Adams' pas de trois with her husband Hugh Laing and the brilliant but cruel Antony Tudor. He is insightful on Lincoln Kirstein's weaknesses, but appreciates his strengths in bringing Balanchine to America and doing all the administrative work that was necessary to set up the institutions of NYCB and SAB.

I want to add that D'Amboise's description of Balanchine's final illness and funeral are the most touching accounts I have ever read of those tragic events.

Comparing this autobiography to Edward Villella's: Villella had a more complex relationship with Balanchine. This gives Villella's book more depth, he grows, and D'Amboise does not grow in the course of his book. He remains the same happy, brilliant executant he was at 15, with more roles, more maturity, but without having become very different than when he began.

I recently reread parts of Allegra Kent's memoir. I'm not sure if it was ghosted, but it has such an Allegrian joy and intelligence - it sounds like her. The narrative never lags, there are key themes - her dependence on her mother and later her misjudged marriage to a philandering celebrity photographer. But the main virtue is how carefully she describes the dances Balanchine created for her, unique ballets like The Unanswered Question and Bugaku, which illustrate how Balanchine saw her and how he was inspired by her. Most fascinating is her description of how he taught her the Swan Queen in Act 2 of Swan Lake - by playing the role himself and dancing with the prince. This is what D'Amboise doesn't give us. And Suzanne's memoir was beautifully written by Toni Bentley, that mistress of the rapturous phrase, and every page held my interest. D'Amboise's memoir unfortunately does not compare to these, and it could have been half the length.

Name: Suzanne Dobbins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An amazing life told by a gifted storyteller
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2013
Review: “When Madame Seda said, ‘There are better teachers than I,’ she sent me to a crucible, a laboratory of theater and dance that would shape and influence the performing arts in this country for the rest of the century. There, I would plié, changement, and pirouette my heart out, guided by some of the greatest artists and innovators residing in New York City, most of them from pre-Soviet Russia, role models who demanded the best of their students.”

Jacques d’Amboise began his dance career in a small Washington Heights studio prior to World War II. His mother and the teacher conspired to encourage Jacques to join in his sister’s dance classes through a dare. “See if you can jump as high as the girls.” Pretty soon, he was joining in the part of the class where they practice leaps. Then came another challenge: “Now leap in the air and change your feet so when you land, your left foot is in front.” That move is called a changement, and Madame Seda soon had Jacques doing thirty-two of them. It wasn’t long before he was taking the entire class and on his way to becoming a danseur. D’Amboise was eventually sent to the School of American Ballet and George Ballanchine, where he became a favorite student and friend of the master. D’Amboise became a corps member of the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen, and eventually a principal dancer and star in his own right.

I admit I love the ballet and I love reading about dancers and their journeys. But, D’Amboise is such a natural story-teller, this memoir is much more than an autobiography. It is a glimpse into a perfect point in time – when the world of dance brought together the most amazing talents in one place, and achieved greatness that has yet to be matched. His stories are funny, fascinating and charming. And I loved every minute of this wonderful book. Even if you know nothing about the world of ballet, you will enjoy I Was a Dancer.

Name: Elaine Shefer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you are a dancer you will love this book with a capital "L"
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2015
Review: A ;fascinating book. If you are a dancer you will love this book with a capital "L". If you are not a dancer you will also love this book. It is not only a book about a dancer and the world of dancing it is a book about an incredible man who I knew was incredible before I even read this book but now am positive just how incredible he was.
He represents the spirit of joy and of course you could see this in his dancing. More than that, he is so human, so down to earth, a real New York boy who became a dancer because of his incredible energy and "wildness" all of which could have gone in the wrong direction if not for "the boss", his mom who had a vision for her children and was the guiding light in his life as well as his siblings.
Besides contributing so much to the world of dance, where everyone who knew him and danced with him, loved him, he went on to work with under privileged children bring the joy of dance to a world that was grey, hopeless and with no light.
HIs life as a performer was only a prologue to what he did when he left the stage bringing dance not only to the slums of New York but widening the very meaning of dance, movement to the entire world.
When you finish this inspiring book you not only love dance even more than when you began the book, but love Jacques d'Amboise for being this incredible human being, this wonderful, exciting person. You feel "if only I had had the privilege to work with him."