{"id":13806,"date":"2021-12-03T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=13806"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","slug":"capitol-ballets-orbit-clover-mathias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/capitol-ballets-orbit-clover-mathias\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Ballet&#8217;s Orbit: Clover Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Capitol Ballet and Clover Mathis<\/h2>\n<p>Clover Mathis accompanied his partner, Sandra Fortune Green, to Moscow for the International Ballet Competition. They danced a program consisting of <em>Don Quixote<\/em>, <em>Le Corsaire<\/em>, the grande pas de deux from <em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, and <em>Les Deux<\/em>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They received numerous accolades for the successful performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a member of the Capitol Ballet Company, Matis performed the pas de deux from <em>Don Quixote<\/em> with Sandra Fortune Green on numerous occasions. The pair won the spirited approval of the audience for their original and distinctive interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the premiere of <em>Black Cries<\/em> at Howard University, in 1973, Mathis and Fortune-Green performed in <em>Les Deux<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Ballet and Clover Mathis Clover Mathis accompanied his partner, Sandra Fortune Green, to Moscow for the International Ballet Competition. They danced [&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-13806","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\/13806","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=13806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16281,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806\/revisions\/16281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}