{"id":12552,"date":"2021-07-29T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:23","slug":"eric-stith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/29\/eric-stith\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Stith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-block-id=\"block-bbcc0e19-a150-46d6-9171-a5a2899253a9\"><strong>Eric Stith<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 data-block-id=\"block-ff4554a6-47cd-42c2-b92e-4b1596b885c7\"><strong>Charlotte Ballet II (2020-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-b23addf7-efee-454a-aa3c-c6048062b96a\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/charlotteballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Eric-Stith.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Stith - Charlotte Ballet\" width=\"366\" height=\"244\" \/>Eric Conrad Stith III was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and started training at the age of seven at The Old Donations Center for the Gifted and Talented. He later trained for four years at the Governor\u2019s School for the Arts, where he performed the roles of Lucien in <em>Paquita<\/em> and Johnny in Paul Taylor\u2019s <em>Company B<\/em>. Stith has played a major role in Richard Alston\u2019s <em>Arrived<\/em> in the film <em>Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants<\/em> in 2019. He also studied at the Elevate Performing Arts Center for three years as well as summer intensives at the School of American Ballet, Orlando Ballet School, and Charlotte Ballet.<\/p>\n<p>Stith joined Charlotte Ballet II in 2020 and has performed George Balanchine\u2019s <em>Donizetti Variations <\/em>with the main company.<\/p>\n<p>He has studied Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship at a community college and has taught at El Alma de la Luna Dance Academy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/charlotteballet.org\/meet-the-dancers\/eric-stith-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Stith, Charlotte Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/charlotteballet.org\/2021\/03\/01\/interview-with-eric-stith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview with Charlotte Ballet Dance Eric Stith, Charlotte Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wyVZ1DT2_dM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Stith from the Charlotte Ballet Dancing to Have Hope 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eric_stithiii\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@eric_stithiii<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Stith Charlotte Ballet II (2020-present) Eric Conrad Stith III was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and started training at the age [&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-12552","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\/12552","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=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12553,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}