{"id":11636,"date":"2021-05-20T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","slug":"chip-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/chip-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chip Coleman<\/h2>\n<h2>The Washington Ballet<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11637\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-800x1208.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-830x1254.jpg 830w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-230x347.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-350x529.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-480x725.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman-600x906.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChipColeman.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Chip Coleman received his Bachelors in Biology from Dartmouth College. After college, Coleman joined The Washington Ballet, where he danced professionally for 14 years. He then danced with The Washington National Opera for three years.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure at The Washington Ballet, Coleman was cited in <em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em> as \u201cdancing with strong resilience\u201d in Graham Lustig\u2019s <i>Evening<\/i>. His role in Val Caniparoli\u2019s <i>Bird\u2019s Nest<\/i> was called \u201cexplosive\u201d by <em>The<\/em> <em>Washington Post<\/em>. <em>Dance Magazine<\/em> lauded Coleman for his \u201csmooth partnering\u201d in The Washington Ballet\u2019s \u201c7&#215;7: Love\u201d program. Other notable performances included Lynn Cote&#8217;s <i>Interlacing<\/i> and the role of Max\u2019s Mama in Septime Webre\u2019s story ballet <i>Where the Wild Things Are<\/i>. As a member of The Washington Ballet, Coleman also performed in Cynthia Newport&#8217;s 2004 documentary <i>Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Coleman is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Certified Polestar Pilates trainer, and fitness instructor. His work includes teaching Pilates and fitness classes as well as nutrition workshops for dancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bodydynamicsinc.com\/about-bdi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Your Team, Body Dynamics Inc.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/lifestyle\/2000\/10\/14\/the-washington-ballet-jazzing-up-its-act\/5e62f588-ff46-4012-99e0-fb6523b92441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Ballet, Jazzing Up Its Act, The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/01\/25\/arts\/dance-review-some-visitors-from-washington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dance Review: Some Visitors From Washington, The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/danceviewtimes.com\/dvdc\/reviews\/spring04\/dancecuba.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspects of Cuba, Dance View Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/07\/11\/04\/where-the-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Where the Wild Things Are @ The Washington Ballet, DCist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/bs-xpm-1996-05-10-1996131170-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Ballet meets challenge of three premieres, NY Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Coleman The Washington Ballet Chip Coleman received his Bachelors in Biology from Dartmouth College. After college, Coleman joined The Washington Ballet, [&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":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","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\/11636","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=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}