{"id":13652,"date":"2021-12-03T01:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=13652"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","slug":"capitol-ballets-orbit-rodney-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-rodney-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Ballet&#8217;s Orbit: Rodney Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Capitol Ballet and Rodney Green<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the restoration of the Capitol Ballet Company at the University of the District of Columbia in 1988, Rodney Green, a veteran of the old Capitol Ballet Company, performed (alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-treanna-reid-alexander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treanna Reid-Alexander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-robyn-nash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robyn Nash<\/a>) in <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/17\/jones-haywood-orbit-doris-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doris Jones<\/a>&#8216; wonderfully flavorsome and inventive tap number <em>Bach Vibrations<\/em>, created in 1973 and a Capitol classic ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Green performed in various performances with the Capitol Ballet, including <em>Taps for Old Times<\/em>, <em>Les Deux<\/em>, <em>Hinty<\/em>,<em> Three Black Cries<\/em>, <em>Flair For Movement<\/em>, and <em>Asha I<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/lifestyle\/1988\/05\/14\/capitol-ballet-capital-night\/280f6d5a-c95a-4b61-8e3f-82439dbfc9d4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol Ballet Capital Night, The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov\/library\/document\/0018\/81556643.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol Ballet Guild, Incorporated, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>More about Rodney Green<\/h2>\n<p>Green is featured in <em>The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals<\/em> by Dan Dietz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=12NECgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA232&amp;lpg=PA232&amp;dq=rodney+green+ballet&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=gWxdFA1yzJ&amp;sig=ACfU3U2tuF9ZIa3YGYPICiwk96XBqbjshg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi7n9Tg6-b0AhUflmoFHUvDDyUQ6AF6BAglEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=rodney%20green%20ballet&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13585\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alisha Naidu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Ballet and Rodney Green At the restoration of the Capitol Ballet Company at the University of the District of Columbia in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"universe-template.php","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":[286,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitol-ballet-constellation","category-universe"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652","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\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13652"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16303,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions\/16303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}