{"id":13793,"date":"2021-12-03T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","slug":"capitol-ballets-orbit-maria-newby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-maria-newby\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Ballet&#8217;s Orbit: Maria Newby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Capitol Ballet and Maria Newby<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria Newby was a prominent member of the Capitol Ballet Company. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the company\u2019s performance, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol Ballet Company in Concert, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Howard University, on November 21, 1973, Cowan performed in <em>Taps for Old Times<\/em>, <em>Les Deux<\/em>, <em>Hinty<\/em>, <em>The Black Cries<\/em>, <em>Flair for Movement<\/em>, and <em>Asha I<\/em>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At another production, <em>Piloting Capitol Ballet Clipper, Flight #4874 \u2018Around the World<\/em>,\u2019 performed in 1974, Newby performed in \u201cCarnival Day\u201d (in \u201cIII. Galeao Airport, Rio de Janeiro\u201d), \u201cSongrant Day at the Thai Buddhist Temples\u201d (in \u201cIV. Paya Lebar Airport, Singapore, Asia\u201d), \u201cBon Marche, The Left Bank<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(in \u201cVII. Orly Airport, Paris, France\u201d), and \u201cNatives\u201d (in \u201cXIII. Duvalier Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti\u201c).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13585 alignleft\" 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>Iulia Stanciu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Ballet and Maria Newby Maria Newby was a prominent member of the Capitol Ballet Company. At the company\u2019s performance, Capitol Ballet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"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":[286,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13793","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\/13793","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=13793"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16275,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}