{"id":16455,"date":"2022-07-25T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"16455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/16455\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"ql-block\" data-block-id=\"block-b38995dd-c627-42cd-aef7-9359052e7a23\"><strong>Joan Cooper<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ql-block\" data-block-id=\"block-de843ccc-94be-4f88-83ea-346ef73ca20e\"><strong>Capitol Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"ql-block\" data-block-id=\"block-320cd234-52ce-49c9-89fe-b753b493c7bb\">\n<p>[Photo unavailable]<\/p>\n<p>While a member of the Capitol Ballet, Joan Cooper appeared in <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/14\/sylvester-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sylvester Campbell<\/a>\u2019s <em>Pas de Trois Royale<\/em> alongside Anita Kelley and <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/11\/adrian-vincent-james\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Vincent James<\/a> on November 20, 1977 at the Lisner Auditorium. Little else is known about Cooper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ql-block\" data-block-id=\"block-b11bbbe0-4a5b-4a6a-bdf1-04bd8750001e\">\n<p>Note: It is not definite that Joan Cooper was Black as we have no photographic or written evidence, but based on her status as a member of a historically Black company, she has been included in MoBBallet\u2019s Roll Call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Program: The Capitol Ballet Company 1976-77 Concert Series<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Cooper Capitol Ballet [Photo unavailable] While a member of the Capitol Ballet, Joan Cooper appeared in Sylvester Campbell\u2019s Pas de Trois [&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-16455","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\/16455","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=16455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16457,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}