{"id":16497,"date":"2022-07-26T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"otis-daye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/otis-daye\/","title":{"rendered":"Otis Daye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Otis Daye<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Iranian National Ballet Company (1977-1978)<\/strong>
\nAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1979-?)<\/strong>
\nLes Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (1985)<\/strong>
\nCapitol Ballet (1988)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo via The Herald-Sun<\/em>, 1979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Born ca. 1955 in Oxford, North Carolina to Mrs. Catherine Turrentine and Mr. Daye, Otis Daye moved to Durham when he was seven years old and attended Northern High School (in Durham, North Carolina).<\/div>\n
Daye told The Herald-Sun<\/em> in 1979, \u201cEver since I can remember, I wanted to dance\u2026. I would go into the woods and leap\u2026.\u201d He trained at North Carolina School of the Arts on scholarship, the Dance Theatre of Harlem school, School of American Ballet, and the American Dance Center.<\/div>\n
A member of the Iranian National Ballet Company from 1977 to 1978, Daye then joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1979 and said about Ailey, \u201cAlvin is like my father\u2026.He\u2019s very sensitive, and he knows how to bring things out of you that you didn\u2019t know you had.\u201d<\/div>\n
After dancing as \u201cDelilah Razzmatazzmova\u201d in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo in 1985, he also performed with the Capitol Ballet in Nathaniel Orr\u2019s Undeniably Bach<\/em> in May 1988.<\/div>\n
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As a guest artist, Daye appeared with the Charlotte Youth Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty<\/em> in 1990 with Harry Bryde African American Dance Theatre in 1993.<\/p>\n

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Photo via The Durham Sun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Barbara Howse-Meadows and Otis Daye, photo via The Charlotte Observer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Capitol Ballet Capital Night, The Washington Post<\/a>
\nIranian National Ballet Company, Wikipedia<\/a>
\nKysionia Daye, IMDb<\/a>
\nThe Trocks, The Pittsburgh Press<\/a>
\nAiley\u2019s In Durham\u2013Durham\u2019s In Ailey Too, The Durham Sun<\/a>
\nDancers Back On Familiar Ground, The Charlotte Observer<\/a>
\nTrockadero Dancers at El Camino, The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\nIt\u2019s Homecoming For Two Dancers, The Herald-Sun<\/a>
\nCan Charlotte Support Dance, Or Will We Sit This One Out?, The Charlotte Observer<\/a>
\nTribute puts Lewis\u2019s works center stage, The Atlanta Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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