{"id":13798,"date":"2021-12-03T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=13798"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","slug":"capitol-ballets-orbit-leroy-cowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-leroy-cowan\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Ballet&#8217;s Orbit: Leroy Cowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Capitol Ballet Company and\u00a0<strong>Leroy Cowan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leroy Cowan was a notable member of the Capitol Ballet Company. At the company\u2019s production <\/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>Hinty<\/em>, <em>Asha I<\/em>, <em>Three Black Cries<\/em>, <em>Flair For Movement<\/em>, and the<em> Ebony Concerto<\/em> pas de deux, for which he, along with Sandra Fortune Green, received positive reactions from the critics. In another production, <em>Piloting Capitol Ballet Clipper, Flight #4874 \u2018Around the World<\/em>,\u2019 performed in 1974, Cowan performed in the \u201cRedskin Fans and Admirers\u201d (in \u201cXIV. Dulles Airport, Washington, DC\u201d),\u00a0 \u201cBeale Street\u201d (in \u201cII. International Airport, New Orleans\u201d), and \u201cMontego Bay, North Shore\u201d (in \u201cX. Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica\u201d).\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=\"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>Iulia Stanciu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Ballet Company and\u00a0Leroy Cowan Leroy Cowan was a notable member of the Capitol Ballet Company. At the company\u2019s production 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-13798","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\/13798","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=13798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16283,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions\/16283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}