{"id":10416,"date":"2021-03-04T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","slug":"clementine-collinwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/clementine-collinwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Clementine Collinwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Clementine Collinwood<\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bsp-static.playbill.com\/dims4\/default\/dc6e334\/2147483647\/resize\/x250%3C\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpb-asset-replication.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2Fe1%2F8647ad604b92aa45b14dc4f1ad72%2FSwingin-the-Dream-Playbill-12-39.jpg\" alt=\"Swingin' The Dream Playbill - Dec 1939\" width=\"242\" height=\"326\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Swingin&#8217; The Dream<\/em> Playbill &#8211; Dec 1939.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Photo unavailable]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clementine Collinwood (also known as Clemie Collinwood) was a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/1940-negro-unit-of-ballet-theater-was-founded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre<\/a>. She was a part of the original cast of Agnes de Mille\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Ritual <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1940). Collinwood was also a part of the original Broadway cast of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swingin\u2019 the Dream<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which premiered November 29, 1939.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Note that some sources list Collinwood&#8217;s first name as &#8220;Clementina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abt.org\/ballet\/black-ritual-obeah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Ritual (Obeah), American Ballet Theatre<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/clemie-collinwood-vault-0000104727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clemie Collinwood, Playbill<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maher, Erin K. \u201cBallet, Race, and Agnes de Mille\u2019s Black Ritual.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Musical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vol. 97, no. 3, Fall 2014, pp. 390-428.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clementine Collinwood Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre [Photo unavailable] Clementine Collinwood (also known as Clemie Collinwood) was a member of the Negro [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416","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=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}