{"id":16478,"date":"2022-07-25T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16478"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"beryl-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/beryl-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Beryl Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Beryl Thornton<\/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;\">While a member of the Capitol Ballet, Beryl Thornton performed in Doris W. Jones\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mendelssohn Suite<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> alongside Theressa Cassese, Robin Blair, and Laura Fitz. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tennessean<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> declared that it was \u201cvery well danced,\u201d and the performance, part of the Southeastern Regional Ballet Festival, took place on April 22, 1970 at the Henderson A. Johnson Gymnasium of Fisk University. It is not known if Thornton performed elsewhere or with the company on other occasions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: It is not definite that Beryl Thornton 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/113460034\/?terms=%22Capitol%20Ballet%22&amp;match=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Admirable\u2019 Top Word For Ballet, The Tennessean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beryl Thornton Capitol Ballet [Photo unavailable] While a member of the Capitol Ballet, Beryl Thornton performed in Doris W. Jones\u2019 The Mendelssohn [&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-16478","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\/16478","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=16478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16479,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions\/16479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}