Some companies have good dancers, yet their rehearsal directors don't know how to keep ballets alive.

Edwards worked as a rehearsal director for the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1970.

After 15 years onstage, he became a rehearsal director and then an indispensable assistant to Ailey, who died in 1989.

They looked like rehearsal directors preparing to rehearse their company.

Ailey made him his assistant and then rehearsal director.

One man is surely intended to represent a choreographer or rehearsal director guiding a shy woman through an intricate sequence of steps.

She has spotted two students who, she believes, will in time make good rehearsal directors.

"In some of our work I would just do small or transitional phrases, because I felt that that was my area as a rehearsal director."

She now maintains a hectic schedule as a choreographer, teacher, rehearsal director and occasional performer.

She and her rehearsal director, Peggy Lyman, even came and taught a class.