Steven Melendez is the artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, a Manhattan-based ballet company dedicated to performing classic masterpieces and new contemporary works for adults and innovative hourlong ballets for young children. Steven's introduction to ballet began as a young child through the New York Theatre Ballet School's LIFT scholarship program that creates an equal opportunity and an accessible dance training environment for talented at-risk homeless and underserved children. A documentary about Steven and the program, also titled LIFT, will have its West-Coast Premiere on Saturday, November 5th at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
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Tickets for the 2022 San Francisco Dance Film Festival are now available
https://sfdancefilmfest.org/fall-festival-2022/
This episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/
