{"id":7021,"date":"2020-11-21T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:27","slug":"joshua-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/joshua-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-clpid=\"SGzkcKy-ZwkrPmCPZo\">\n<h2><strong>Joshua Whitehead<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Ballet West II (2010-2012)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ballet West: Demi-Soloist (2012-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7022 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-800x1000.png 800w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-830x1038.png 830w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-230x288.png 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-350x438.png 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-480x600.png 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-1-5.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a>Joshua Whitehead, a Portsmouth, VA native, is a demi-soloist with Ballet West, coming to the first company after two years with Ballet West II. He started dancing at age 18 and trained at Academy de Ballet and as a trainee at Ballet West Academy. Whitehead was featured on the CW reality show <em>Breaking Pointe<\/em> and choreographs in addition to dancing. His repertoire with the company includes Russian Soloist and the Nutcracker Prince in <em>The Nutcracker<\/em> and Spanish in <em>Swan Lake<\/em>, as well as roles in Balanchine\u2019s <em>Tarantella<\/em> and <em>Square Dance<\/em>, Val Caniparoli\u2019s <em>The Lottery<\/em>, and Adam Sklute\u2019s <em>Giselle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4hnZ9azqm9k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balletwest.org\/dancers\/joshua-whitehead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Whitehead, Ballet West<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uaf.org\/venues\/event\/2335-dance-commission-ruuddances-featuring-ballet-west-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dance Commission: Ruuddances featuring Ballet West Academy, Utah Arts Festival<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theutahreview.com\/utah-arts-festival-2019-four-commissions-set-to-premiere-in-chamber-and-jazz-music-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Utah Arts Festival 2019: Four commissions set to premiere in chamber and jazz music, dance, The Utah Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/ballet-west-announces-policy-changes-to-allow-for-greater-equity-for-dancers-of-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Demi Soloist Joshua Whitehead in Merce Cunningham&#8217;s Summerspace (Photo by Beau Pearson), KUTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4hnZ9azqm9k&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ballet West Celebrates Black History Month ~ Joshua Whitehead &amp; Sanford Placide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshuawhitehe11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@joshuawhitehe11<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCiH9a5nzGYZm7mO9jQiZ7oA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Whitehead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Whitehead Ballet West II (2010-2012) Ballet West: Demi-Soloist (2012-present) Joshua Whitehead, a Portsmouth, VA native, is a demi-soloist with Ballet West, [&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-7021","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\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7127,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}