Melissa Hayden

Ballet legend Melissa Hayden, has passed away at the age of 83. Hayden enjoyed an illustrious career dancing, in Boris Volkoff's Canadian Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Alicia Alonso in South America before joining Balanchine's New York City Ballet in 1950. She later joined the faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts where she played a direct role in shaping a great number of today’s finest professionals.

And relatively new to the dance blogosphere, Megarina, has a similar post on topic too.


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