{"id":16449,"date":"2022-07-25T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16449"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"thomas-kelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/thomas-kelley\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Kelley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Thomas Kelley<\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Capitol Ballet<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Photo unavailable]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Kelley (also written as Kelly) performed with the Capitol Ballet in several pieces on November 20, 1977 at the Lisner Auditorium: Doris W. Jones\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Pilgrims<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhapsody in Blue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is not known if Kelley performed elsewhere with the Capitol Ballet or other companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: It is not definite that Thomas Kelley was Black as we have no photographic or written evidence, but based on his status as a member of a historically Black company, he has been included in MoBBallet\u2019s Roll Call.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Program: The Capitol Ballet Company 1976-77 Concert Series<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Kelley Capitol Ballet [Photo unavailable] Thomas Kelley (also written as Kelly) performed with the Capitol Ballet in several pieces on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16450,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions\/16450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}