Melissa Roberts

Melissa Roberts teaches adult, teen and advanced trapeze classes at Canopy. She enjoys designing and choreographing on several apparatuses including lyra, aerial cube, double lyra, and triangle. She performs with Andrea Fors and Nicole Mermans of Co-Incident Aerial Dance, http://www.co-incident.com/gallery.html. Although she was a gymnast in her early days, she lost touch with that level of physicality during college and graduate school. Upon moving back to Athens from New York City in 2002, she saw Canopy’s first performance and immediately signed up for classes. Canopy has been her second home ever since!
When she’s not at Canopy, Melissa works as a grant director with the Center for Community Design and Preservation at UGA. She enjoys Lowes, home improvement (a.k.a. demolition), makeup design, cemetery documentation, biking and spending time with friends. When traveling, she attempts to takes contortion classes… and shops to fulfill her platform footwear obsession.