{"id":2379,"date":"2017-09-26T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","slug":"donna-lowe-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/donna-lowe-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Lowe Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Donna Lowe Warren<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Philadelphia Grand Opera Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2380\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2380 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-800x634.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-1024x812.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-830x658.jpg 830w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-230x182.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-350x277.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball-480x380.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/donna-Lowe-Elmer-ball.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Lowe and Elmer Ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Donna Lowe began her training in Philadelphia at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/1948-therrell-c-smith-school-of-dance-is-founded-in-washington-d-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judimar School of Dance<\/a> under the tutelage of Marion Cuyjet, John Hines, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/14\/delores-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Delores Browne<\/a>. During the summers, prompted by Cuyjet, Lowe studied in New York with George Chaffee. She later trained under Thomas Cannon, the ballet master of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Ballet. In 1958, Cannon offered Lowe a contract. At the time African Americans were not permitted to be a part of the company, but Lowe was fair enough to pass for white. In 1960 she attended the Juilliard School&#8217;s ballet program for one year but was unable to continue due to the financial burden. She returned to Philadelphia and resumed her contract with the opera, where she performed until 1971. In 1982, Lowe relocated to Florida and opened her own school, the Philadelphia School of Dance in Lehigh Acres Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2231\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2231\" src=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-800x1041.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-830x1080.jpg 830w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-230x299.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-350x455.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-480x624.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donna-Lowe-and-Elmer-Skeets-Ball-Judimar-School-scaled.jpg 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judimar School students Donna Lowe and Elmer &#8220;Skeets&#8221; Ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Lowe Warren Philadelphia Grand Opera Ballet Donna Lowe began her training in Philadelphia at the Judimar School of Dance under the [&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-2379","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\/2379","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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}