“Balanchine let me do anything I want. The other dancers used to complain…I’d go to Balanchine and say, ‘I’m going to do a movie, I won’t be here for three months’…I never asked him,” d’Amboise says."
"Former education, nonprofit and human services executive Traci Lester is assuming the role as executive director of the Harlem-based National Dance Institute. She began her new position this week."
"We’re emotional creatures. We look up at the stars, we’re filled with wonder, and begin to express our emotions through music, sound and dance, and then that evolves into paintings, drawings."
"The Event of the Year will bring together more than 200 talented dancers from NYC public schools across Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx for an end-of-school year performance."
"'These kids have so much stress in their lives,' Charlotte d’Amboise, Jacques’ daughter says. 'When you have all this energy, dance is the best thing.'”
"In performances, we don’t have a front in the room. We’re always turning the room around so there’s no back line, splitting the room in half so that we can make sure the kids in the middle are really embracing and understanding the material and can lead on their own."
