{"id":16517,"date":"2022-07-26T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"capitol-ballets-orbit-robert-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/capitol-ballets-orbit-robert-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Ballet&#8217;s Orbit: Robert Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Capitol Ballet and Robert Davis<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.jacobspillow.org\/media\/jacobspillow\/images\/1\/7\/72002_ca_object_representations_media_1767_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"323\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Davis and Mimi Paul in <em>Ondine<\/em>, photo via Jacob&#8217;s Pillow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Washington Ballet dancer Robert Davis performed as a guest artist with the Capitol Ballet on two occasions. On May 31, 1968 at the Cramton Auditorium of Howard University in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he appeared with Patricia Sorrell and <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/27\/llanchie-stevenson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Llanchie Stevenson<\/a> (also Washington Ballet dancers) in <em>Collaboration<\/em>. On April 22, 1970 at the Henderson A. Johnson Gymnasium of Fisk University, he danced <em>The Nutcracker <\/em>Grande Pas de Deux with <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/26\/sandra-fortune-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ql-block\" data-block-id=\"block-1c99d84d-981f-4d97-9fdc-4b46390c673c\">\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, 30th May 1968, p. C6<br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/113460034\/?terms=%22Capitol%20Ballet%22&amp;match=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Admirable\u2019 Top Word For Ballet, The Tennessean<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archives.jacobspillow.org\/Detail\/objects\/15564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ondine, Jacob&#8217;s Pillow Dance<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capitol Ballet and Robert Davis Washington Ballet dancer Robert Davis performed as a guest artist with the Capitol Ballet on two [&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":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitol-ballet-constellation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","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=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16518,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions\/16518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}