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Don Bellamy studied dance at Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts. Bellamy was part of the 12-member incarnation of the Capitol Ballet Company in 1988. He started his career as a corps dancer with the company in Washington, D.C. under the direction of <\/span>Doris Jones<\/a> and <\/span>Billy Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAfter this, he joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater under the artistic direction of <\/span>Alvin Ailey<\/a>. Bellamy has been part of such prestigious groups as Dance Theatre of Harlem, Complexions, Lar Lubovitch, Donald Byrd The Group, Elisa Monte, and was part of a collaboration between Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet. Bellamy was part of many Broadway productions including <\/span>The Red Shoes<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Lion King<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Porgy and Bess<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>The Phantom of the Opera<\/span><\/i>. He has worked with many artists including Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and Celine Dion. Bellamy teaches ballet, Horton, modern, and contemporary dance at The Rock. He is a ballet master and coach at the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources:<\/b><\/p>\n Capitol Ballet Capital Night, The Washington Post<\/a> Alisha Naidu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don Bellamy Capitol Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Don Bellamy studied dance at Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts. Bellamy […]<\/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-16509","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\/16509","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=16509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16510,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions\/16510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStaff, The Contemporary West Dance Theatre<\/a>
\n\u201cMemoria\u201d: Don Bellamy & Dana Hash, National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg\")
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