{"id":8661,"date":"2021-01-08T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","slug":"yvonne-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/yvonne-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yvonne Miller<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First Negro Classic Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Miller with Theodore Crum in Cinderella. Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library, Joseph Rickard Papers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a0Yvonne Miller was a star of the First Negro Classic Ballet, as well as being one of seven directors of the company. Miller\u2019s repertoire with the company included Harlot\u2019s House<\/em> (1949), Pagliacci<\/em> (1949), Cinderella<\/em> (1948), Little China Figure<\/em> (1948), Bach’s Variations Classique<\/em>, Landscape<\/em>, and Symphonic Etudes<\/em> (1948). Miller, along with her fellow dancers, was praised for “executing magnificently the classic ballet interpolations” in a December 1949 performance.<\/div>\n
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From left to right: Roberta Rhinehart<\/a>, Theodore Duncan<\/a>, and Yvonne Miller.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Rickard papers, Online Archive of California<\/a>
\nDance Moves: An African American Ballet Company in Postwar Los Angeles by Kenneth H. Marcus<\/a><\/p>\n

See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The First Negro Classic Ballet is Founded, MoBBallet<\/a>
\nFirst Negro Classic Ballet Company debuts, MoBBallet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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