Biography of Jacques d’Amboise

“I was a Dancer” is a rich, expansive, spirited memoire on the Jacques d’Amboise life. It all started when he was 8 years old at the school of American ballet. At twelve he was asked to be a dancer and perform with Ballet Society. Three years later he joined the New York City ballet and made his European debut at London’s Covent Garden’s. Before all this he writes about his childhood, he was born Joseph Ahearn in 1934 in Dedham Massachusetts. His mother considered as the boss, she moves her family to New York City’s Washington Heights, Making her son and daughter enter Ballet classes, she was able to pay those classes by making hates and selling them in the streets corner, she also changed their last names to her middle name, she believed it sounded better for the life of ballet she was leading her kids to. His life was tough for a while; he was in catholic school being taught by nuns, fighting with neighborhood gangs, and taking ten classes a week of ballet in the school of America ballet. Balanchine was a small, unassuming, and much energized guy who taught ballet to D’Amboise. He loves Balanchine but he does admit he loved Lincoln Kirsten even more because he was a total wreck and dysfunctional genius of a mad energies and passion. Lincoln would always say “he feared he was wrong” And yell out “good taste is my taste, buster, good taste is my taste” he described how Vulnerable he was by saying “He was a wounded elephant, with all the power of an elephant, full of doubts and fear.” His idea of studying dance started with his mom because she always had a dream of her kids following her steps as a dancer. His mom would have been an amazing dancer, an actress in drama, recited poetry, sing and talked French. After years of dancing...

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...r dance really inspired me to love dance more then what I do now. To understand and to be able to relate in a way to him really open my eyes and not only that what he’s doing, teacher children the magic of dance and helping them in life is what I want to do.

This changed the way I see in the world very much more towards dance. Seeing that there is a person that wants to make a change and being great influences to others really opened my eyes to keep my dreams going. I already knew people want to make a change but there’s a big difference in knowing and actually seeing someone make that change. The way I see the world also through his life is no matter how many situation come to hand no matter how hard things are and can get you never give you, you keep trying, keep your head high and keep fighting because God will never giving you a battle that you can’t handle.