I Was a Dancer

✍ Scribed by D'Amboise, Jacques

• Book ID: 107081496
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307595232

✦ Synopsis

From one of America's finest, and most celebrated, classical dancers; former principal dancer for more than three decades with the New York City Ballet--the irresistible story of an exhilarating life in dance.

He writes of the New York City Ballet and those at its center: Lincoln Kirstein; Jerome Robbins; George Balanchine ("With Robbins, you were amplified; with Balanchine, you were transformed"), as well as the ballerinas who were Balanchine's muses--Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil LeClercq, Allegra Kent, Melissa Hayden, and Suzanne Farrell among them--and with whom d'Amboise had the privilege of partnering . . . about the ballets he danced (he had more works choreographed on him by Balanchine than any other dancer) . . . on courting one of the members of the company who became his wife . . . on the mentors, teachers, and choreographers with whom d'Amboise worked long before they became legends: Antony Tudor, Frederick Ashton, Martha Graham, among them . . .

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