The National Dance Institute was founded in 1976 by famed choreographer and dancer Jacques d’Amboise. The in-school program reaches thousands of children each week, bringing the joy of dance and ...

My first time on stage was with the National Dance Institute, or NDI, a nonprofit that benefits directly from funding from the NEA. Created in 1976 by Jacques D'Amboise, a star dancer of the New York ...

A dancer who does his homework — he is, he says, “such a bunhead” — Mejia had a plan, or a man, in mind: Jacques d’Amboise, a family friend and an athletic, unruly Apollo from the 1950s ...