Melba Huber said she liked the makeshift stage at the Convention Center, but feared risers -- which create steps between rows of seats -- would be difficult for older people to climb. A typical dance student brings three of four grandparents to a recital. 

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One of the younger dancers at Melba's was recently featured in a beautiful photo feature of SociaLife Magazine. 

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Andrea Torres, 23, started dancing at Melba's when she was 2 years old. Now, she lives in New York and recently performed in a tap routine on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.

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“The results exceeded my expectations,” said Melba Huber.

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Melba's School of Dance students take the stage in a professional-caliber dance show, including classical ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, vintage vaudeville and Broadway styles. 

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Melba's School of Dance students pour their energy into the final rehearsals for the big performance, a truly professional-caliber show. 

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Students at Melba's School of Dance put on a professional-caliber show with a wide variety of dance types -- and even singing! 

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Performance 2011 for Melba's McAllen Dance Theatre promises to be richly diverse and packed with energy. The show is Sunday, February 13 at 2pm in the McAllen Civic Center. 

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Everything from ballet to tap to vaudeville to jazz will leap, whirl and hoof across the McAllen Civic Center stage on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 2pm. The show features a cast of 191 dancers.

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When Melba Huber found out that the city is considering the sale of its only full-size performing arts theatre, she knew that would be a bad move for McAllen's future, both culturally and economically. Please read this article, and call if you would like to help save the Civic Center: 956-686-1411.

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Gabi Ruiz and Liz Ramos, two former Melba's dancers, were visited by Melba Huber and Julie Doyle Wilson on trips to New York City. Ruiz is a dancer and understudy in In The Heights, and Ramos is dance captain for The Addams Family.

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Twenty-two dancers from Melba's School of Dance enjoyed the St. Louis Tap Festival July 25-31. The Festival is attended regularly by Melba Huber, who conducts a tap history panel for the event every year. For more than 25 years, she has interviewed the top tap dancers for her monthly tap columns now featured on the website MelbasDance.com. 

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Melissa Lenz of the Radio City Rockettes and former Melba's Dance student taught a Bob Fosse style class at Melba's School of Dance in June 2010.

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This very nice piece appeared in the McAllen Monitor on the day of the 2010 Recital. 

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The staff at Melba's McAllen dance school know that for many parents, finding the appropriate environment for their young child can be quite a challenge. Assortments of questions come into play when tackling such a difficult decision. Is this the best time for my child to begin stepping away from the home? Are the teachers qualified and will they serve as suitable influences on my impressionable youth? Is this new environment safe and productive for my child?

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I have learned from 50 years experience at Melba’s McAllen dance school what to do and what not to do in planning a children’s dance curriculum. In my early years as a teacher, I always let the parents choose the type of dance for their children, as I wanted to please and include the parents. Years later, I realized my mistake. Most parents don’t realize what subjects in dance will most benefit their children throughout their lives.

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At Melba’s Dance Studio, our hip hop dance classes focus on grooving to the beat of the music and having a good time. Students are exposed to all types of hip hop music and dance ranging from krumping and hyphy moves, to breaking and “pop and lock” moves.

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Classical ballet training at Melba’s School of Dance is the underlying technical basis for all other forms of dance. It is the most demanding and most disciplined of all dance forms, but it can be the most rewarding. With a solid ballet foundation, classically trained dancers can transfer their skills into jazz, tap, hip-hop and many other dance forms.

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This jazz dance class at Melba’s School of Dance and Gymnastics is designed for the students’ enjoyment and allows our young students to get down and get groovy. We use upbeat and funky, kid-friendly music to get us moving.

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Melba Huber is the founder of the McAllen Dance Theatre Company that performs every February at the McAllen Civic Center. The February Showcase features a full act of ballet followed by a second act of show-stopping tap, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, musical theatre, and variety dance numbers. Auditions are held each year for three levels of company.

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Since 1958 Melba's has been dedicated to teaching the technique and discipline required in dance, which allows the students to feel pride in their personal accomplishments. This developmental training will last a lifetime.

Melba's School of Dancing is the largest dancing school in the Rio Grande Valley and offers preschool combination ballet-tap-gymnastics classes, preschool funk, ballet, tap, hip-hop, jazz, musical theatre, and three company-level sections. Since 1958, Melba’s School of Dance has been offering quality dance instruction for students from McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Donna, Weslaco, Rio Grande City, Edcouch, Elsa, La Joya, Hidalgo, Mercedes and Reynosa.

Starting with one dance studio in McAllen, the Melba’s dance complex now includes six studios, a preschool gym, a dancewear store and a snack barre.

Se habla Español.

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In the year when millions of Lincoln Head Pennies first poured out of the US Mint and thousands of Model Ts first rolled off of assembly lines, a one-of-a-kind person entered the world on May 15, 1909. And like a few of those first pennies, Melba Stewart is still in circulation 100 years later... but she almost didn't make it!

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McAllen of Chamber supports the arts by giving Melba Huber a grant.

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Melba Huber hits the cover of a national dance magazine.

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Savion Glover Honors Melba

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St. Louis Tap Festival

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2006 Flo-Bert Awards and Tradition in Tap

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