{"id":10408,"date":"2021-03-03T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","slug":"leonore-azelean-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/leonore-azelean-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonore \u201cAzelean\u201d Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonore \u201cAzelean\u201d Cox<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre (1940-1941)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Flying
Flying Colors<\/em> Playbill – September 1932.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photo unavailable]<\/p>\n

Leonore Cox (also known as Azelean Cox) was born\u00a0in 1905 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia to Mrs. Creole Cox and a father of an unknown name.* Cox trained at the School of Modern Dancing under Doris Humphrey and was a student at New York\u2019s City College.<\/div>\n
As a member of the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre<\/a>, Cox was in the original 1940 cast of Agnes de Mille\u2019s Black Ritual<\/em>.<\/div>\n
She was a member of the original Broadway cast of Flying Colors<\/em>, which opened September 15, 1932.<\/div>\n
As a dance critic and writer, Cox gave a lecture at the First National Dance Congress and Festival in 1936 as well as at the second conference in 1939. Additionally, she wrote an article for The Proceedings of the First National Dance Congress and Festival <\/em>called \u201cOn a Few Aspects of Negro Dancing.\u201d Her 1933 essay \u201cScanning the Dance Highway\u201d for Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life<\/em> can be read here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Cox also worked as a Red Cross hospital recreation worker in Arizona.<\/div>\n
Cox passed away in 1981.<\/div>\n

*Note that another source<\/a> has stated that Cox was a native of New York, though this may be a mistake as Cox previously lived in New York while a member of the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre and a student at City College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Ritual (Obeah), American Ballet Theatre<\/a>
\nLeonore Cox, Playbill<\/a>
\nMaher, Erin K. \u201cBallet, Race, and Agnes de Mille\u2019s Black Ritual.\u201d The Musical Quarterly<\/em>, vol. 97, no. 3, Fall 2014, pp. 390-428.
\nModern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion, by Susan Manning<\/a>
\nOpportunity: Journal of Negro Life<\/a>
\nThe Omaha Guide<\/a>
\nFighting for Hope, by Robert F. Jefferson<\/a><\/p>\n

See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s, by Mark Franko<\/a>
\nScanning the Dance Highway, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life<\/a>
\nNight\u2019s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonore \u201cAzelean\u201d Cox Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre (1940-1941) [Photo unavailable] Leonore Cox (also known as Azelean Cox) was born\u00a0in 1905 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}