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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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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