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Born in Oklahoma in 1938, Sylvester Campbell trained\u00a0at\u00a0Jones-Haywood in Washington DC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and School of American Ballet in New York. He became a member of New York Negro Ballet in 1957 and after the company folded, the Het Netherlands Ballet (now Dutch National Ballet) in 1960. Campbell was a principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet from 1972-1975. Regarding Campbell,\u00a0Raven Wilkinson<\/a><\/strong>, who danced with him at the Dutch National Ballet, said, \u201cI regret that he was not seen in the United States as a dancer because there was living proof of a danseur noble no matter what color, and he was amazing.\u201d Campbell returned to the United States because he missed his home. In 1977, he won a prize at Moscow\u2019s International Ballet Competition. He was the director of the dance Department of the Baltimore School for the Arts for 15 years after his dance career. He died in Baltimore in 1997 from respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sources:<\/b> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alisha Naidu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sylvester Campbell and Capitol Ballet Sylvester Campbell is one of many prominent alumni of the Capitol Ballet Company. He received his initial […]<\/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-14139","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\/14139","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=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14335,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSylvester Campbell, 59, a Pioneer Among Black Classical Dancers, The New York Times<\/a><\/strong>
\nSylvester Campbell, acclaimed ballet dancer, 59, The Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/strong>
\nCapitol Ballet Guild, Incorporated, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg\")
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