Photo: Michelle V. Agins | The New York Times
For 35 years the National Dance Institute has been a gypsy, in the words of its founder, Jacques d’Amboise, the former New York City Ballet principal dancer. The institute rented and borrowed space here and there as it brought dance, performance and arts education to thousands of New York City public school students.
But its itinerant days are over, as exuberantly demonstrated on a recent fall afternoon by a group of children dancing inside a sleek, modern studio on 147th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass Boulevards. The studio is part of the institute’s first permanent home, 18,000 square feet of clean lines and blond wood inside what was once Public School 90, one of the many buildings in central Harlem shuttered in the 1970s as economic decline battered the city.
Read more: National Dance Institute Center Celebrates Harlem Home – NYTimes.com.
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