{"id":11758,"date":"2021-08-25T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:23","slug":"sydney-kings-orbit-richard-moten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/25\/sydney-kings-orbit-richard-moten\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney King’s Orbit: Richard Moten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney King and Richard Moten<\/h2>\n
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Return to the Sydney King \/ Richard Moten Orbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo via the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Richard Moten, a former dancer with the Philadelphia Civic Ballet and Philadanco as well as a choreographer, \u201cstudied, performed, and taught in the dance culture created by Sydney King and Marion Cuyjet\u201d (Gottschild 289). Moten also taught at the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, the school established by Joan Myers Brown, a notable student of Sydney King.<\/p>\n

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

Planting seeds of nourishment for the arts, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nDixon Gottschild, Brenda, et al. Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance<\/em>. United States, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.<\/p>\n

More about Richard Moten<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Born ca. 1950, Richard Moten spent most of his career dancing in Philadelphia. In the early 1970s, Moten danced as a member of a modern dance company, the Joan Kerr Dance Company. He then joined Philadelphia Civic Ballet ca. 1976, and the Philadelphia Daily News<\/em> states that Moten was a soloist with the company. It was at PCB that he started choreographing; in 1978, Philadelphia\u2019s Channel 3 televised A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/em>, for which Moten created a piece set to music by Stevie Wonder. He also choreographed More Miles Per Gallon<\/em> in 1980, described as \u201ca statement through jazz movement of transferring today\u2019s hard economic times into constructive energies\u201d by The Morning News<\/em>, and Point of Reference<\/em>, performed by Philadanco in 1992.<\/p>\n

Moten most likely left Philadelphia Civic Ballet in 1989, as there is no evidence of his performances with the company following this year, and became a member of Philadanco, where he danced in the early 1990s.*<\/p>\n

Moten seemed to be much appreciated and often featured in the companies with which he danced, and The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> called the dancer \u201ctall\u201d and \u201cgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n

*Note that there are varying records of the time period in which Moten danced with Philadanco\u2014Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina <\/em>states that he was with the company before 1975.<\/p>\n

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

Bancroft steps up to dance program, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nPlanting seeds of nourishment for the arts, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nShow Notes, Philadelphia Daily News<\/a>
\nBallet set for King show, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nCircus, shows, concerts are coming to the area, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nSome winners across the river, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nEvents, The Morning News<\/a>
\nModern Dance Not Void of Sex, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\nDixon Gottschild, Brenda, et al. Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance<\/em>. United States, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Written by Mad Crawford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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