NYCB Vol. 15 No. 6 - Apollo

Jacques d'Amboise with Suzanne Farrell, Gloria Govrin and Patricia Neary in Balanchine's Apollo, 1965.

“It was becoming a more and more frequent occurrence that I was thrown on in a new part, and Jacques was there to catch me. His conviction and security gave me enormous comfort as I started to dance new ballets as fast as I could learn them. Our energies, in fact, were amazingly well-matched, and our mutual abandon resulted in a kind of natural eruption on stage. We encouraged each other and there was no apparent limitations to our daring. I would never have had a career to write about had I no found—and relished—such freedom on the stage […].”

— Suzanne Farrell in Holding on to the Air

In this video we see Suzanne pay tribute to Jacques at the Kennedy Center, and in return, 10 years later, Jacques paid tribute to Suzanne when she received the Kennedy Center Honor. A beautiful partnership: