{"id":2899,"date":"2019-01-15T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","slug":"juwan-j-alston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/15\/juwan-j-alston\/","title":{"rendered":"Juwan J. Alston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col span_12 no-date\">\n<div id=\"post-area\" class=\"col span_6\">\n<h2><strong>Juwan J. Linkston (n<b>\u00e9e Alston)<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"col span_6 col_last float-right\" data-follow-on-scroll=\"1\">\n<h2><strong>Charlotte Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"wpb_wrapper\" class=\"float-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5267 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-230x144.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/juwan-j-alston.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Juwan is a native of Round Rock, Texas and began dancing at the age of 15 at Cedar Ridge High School. He was awarded the Senior Hip-Hop Scholarship at the Texas Association of Teachers Dancing Inc. convention in June 2012. He began seriously studying ballet at Dancers Workshop in Austin, TX. In 2013, he attended American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Summer Intensive on scholarship. Alston attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2014, where he performed in ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Susan Jaffe, and Ethan Stiefel. Currently, he serves as a Professional Mentor for Texas Future Dance Educators, Guest Faculty for the UNC School of the Arts Preparatory Dance Program, and as a freelance master teacher. Since joining Charlotte Ballet in 2015, he has performed in ballets by Ohad Naharin, Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Sasha Janes, David Ingram, and Mark Diamond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charlotteballet.org\/meet-the-dancers\/juwan-alston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juwan Alston, Charlotte Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDRF0u8CD7E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncsa.edu\/dance\/alumni\/juwan-j-alston.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlotte Ballet dancer Juwan J. Alston is on the rise, UNCSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itheedanseur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">@itheedanseur<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juwan J. Linkston (n\u00e9e Alston) Charlotte Ballet Juwan is a native of Round Rock, Texas and began dancing at the age of [&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-2899","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\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}