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Co-director of the Saratoga Summer Dance Intensive, Melinda Roy, leads students in barre exercises at the start of a morning class.
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Duty to teach
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Posted: July 12, 2009
Photographer: Marc Schultz
When Melinda Roy was asked to teach ballet, she balked. She was an accomplished dancer — a former principal with New York City Ballet — and a Tony-nominated choreographer who was currently working on Broadway. But a dance teacher?
”At first, I didn’t really have faith in myself,” she said. “But I felt that I should give something back because I had fantastic teachers like George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins. I felt it was my duty to teach.”
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