{"id":9543,"date":"2021-01-29T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:25","slug":"patricia-griffith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/29\/patricia-griffith\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Griffith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-block-id=\"block-1ca414e6-082a-404c-90ac-7016d0dab987\"><strong>Patricia Griffith<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>First Negro Classic Ballet<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>New York Negro Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ql-img\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/etMa5lu_Lwc-AteJBh_4xZZJ48bIXOSgLJkVgyedeg102ob_elWepAzdf-5Y4NZOPCKmqhoMHqJOiUi0buR8paCE93LRkdr5GLgKR7ZWJRqW4XN5neLigwxY5_D5oKzI324oY8FV\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffith\u2019s signature among those of 18 other members of New York Negro Ballet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-bef35843-72ac-4fc3-b816-827eeb2833f2\">[Photo unavailable]<\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-bef35843-72ac-4fc3-b816-827eeb2833f2\">Patricia Griffith was a member of both the First Negro Classic Ballet and New York Negro Ballet, with which she toured England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-586f5aef-64b0-4987-b565-729e903f0d05\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-227995d3-286d-4ffd-8f2d-9ff384c95ed8\"><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_4hMLl3HEEcC&amp;pg=PA110&amp;lpg=PA110&amp;dq=donald+stinson+first+negro+classic+ballet&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=AuYqCZAl50&amp;sig=ACfU3U2gZWG0mFDqirm3ZXQbIWcxmCdE3w&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjE7fD3w_HtAhUD1VkKHdPgDP0Q6AEwDXoECBUQAg#v=snippet&amp;q=patricia%20griffith&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Night\u2019s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vialibri.net\/years\/books\/98675213\/1957-the-new-york-negro-ballet-autographs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Negro Ballet. Autographs of 19 Members on a card. 1957, ViaLibri<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-94004cf5-761b-40c0-a904-c61f4a42a250\"><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"block-57658191-71af-4de8-b4cf-4f002ef021ed\"><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/1946-sydney-king-and-marion-cuyjet-found-the-sydney-marion-school-of-dance-phila\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The First Negro Classic Ballet is Founded, MoBBallet<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/1947-first-negro-classic-ballettalley-beatty-and-betty-nichols-performed-lew-christensens-blackface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Negro Classic Ballet Company debuts, MoBBallet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Griffith First Negro Classic Ballet New York Negro Ballet [Photo unavailable] Patricia Griffith was a member of both the First Negro [&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-9543","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\/9543","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=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}