Jacques d' Amboise - Many Photos

[Mme. Hermine]

A great article on Jacques d'Amboise on a site called the New York Social Diary, with lots of photos by Jill Krementz.

http://newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1905930

[Bonnette]

That's just lovely. Thank you, Mme. Hermine.

[Farrell Fan]

That's just lovely. Thank you, Mme. Hermine.

What wonderful photos! Thank you.

[Amy Reusch]

Thank you! For some reason those sneakers brought back memories! Loved the Apples!

[diane]

That was lovely! I had meant to only glance through at the photographs, and ended up reading the whole thing and thoroughly enjoying it.

-d-

[bart]

That was lovely! I had meant to only glance through at the photographs, and ended up reading the whole thing and thoroughly enjoying it.

Me too! What an amazing network of colleagues and friends, over several generations. Young Jacques/ old Jacques; his children as kids/ as young dancers; a span that goes from Kent through Farrell through Kistler to now. Marvelous.

[Mel Johnson]

I don't think the picture of the d'Amboise daughters as SAB students in a ballet are seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream, as the caption indicates. Those headpieces were far different from those shown and the bugs didn't wear skirts. They had a sort of tunic thing. My guess is Coppélia.

[rg]

right you are, Mel. the b&w photo of the d'Amboise girls on NYCB's stage shows them costumed for the "Waltz of the Golden Hours" in third act of the Balanchine/Danilova COPPELIA, not as fairies in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. (the waltz number was re-costumed over time, initially the 24 girl dancers were dressed by Ter-Arutunian in finely pleated golden fabric, with slightly bell-shapped skirts, later, but pretty soon after, they were re-costumed (by Karinska) in the tutus shown in the picture, in pale pink.