Ethnicity Puerto Rican Occupation Ballet dancer | Website www.stevenmelendez.com Name Steven Melendez | |
Born September 1986 Bronx, New York Current group New York Theatre Ballet | ||
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Steven Melendez is a classical dancer from the USA. He is a principal artist with the New York Theatre Ballet. Formerly, he was a principal artist with the Estonian National Ballet and a soloist with Ballet Concierto in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Steven melendez the latino link to charlie brown
- Early life
- Career
- Choreographer interview steven melendez
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Early life
Born in The Bronx, New York Melendez began his ballet training at Ballet School New York at the age of 7 when he was rescued from a New York City homeless shelter and enrolled in New York Theatre Ballet's Project LIFT. He is also a graduate of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre
Career
Melendez has performed internationally in works by Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, Agnes deMille, George Balanchine, Sallie Wilson, Frederick Ashton and Richard Alston. In 2011 Melendez premiered Alston's work A Rugged Flourish. In 2008 Melendez premiered Uinuv Kaunitar by Swedish Choreographer Pär Isberg at the Vanemuine Theater. Melendez was a 2012 Clive Barnes Award nominee and was a finalist at the 5th Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Competition in Budapest, Hungary. In 2013 Melendez spoke on the Dancing Through Life, Living Through Dance symposium as an alumnus of Professional Children's School Melendez performed with The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth at the 2012 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in honor of Ted Shawn