New artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet grew up homeless

Melendez was a product of "Project Lift," a community service outreach program that finds at-risk and underserved New York City children and introduces them to

Byer said the program strove for diversity and inclusiveness, adding that "the world is diverse and the art world should show the world. So we've always been diverse and I think that being able to find children that are living in homeless shelters, who have no advantages, don't know the art, there's a lot of talent there. So it really opened my eyes."

"The most astonishing thing of tracking children or young people, young dancers over the course of ten years is that you start to see them change with all the challenges," said Petersen. "Snd you start to see something that you never see in real-time with dance is to see their development. And that development is astonishing."

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