After her retirement, she became head of the ballet department at Skidmore College, and taught ballet at the School of Pacific North West Ballet in Seattle, and in New York City, where she opened her own school. From 1983 until just a month before her death, she taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where she stressed and impressed upon the student body the importance of the Balanchine technique with which she was most famously associated. She rehearsed and staged some of Balanchine's most demanding works including Concerto Barocco, and the masterful Theme & Variations.