{"id":15367,"date":"2024-10-27T09:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ballerina-melissa-hamilton-says-performing-in-belfast-is-a-dream-come-true\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:34:54","slug":"ballerina-melissa-hamilton-says-performing-in-belfast-is-a-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ballerina-melissa-hamilton-says-performing-in-belfast-is-a-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballerina Melissa Hamilton says performing in Belfast is &#8216;a dream come true&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A world-renowned ballerina has said coming back to Northern Ireland to perform is a dream come true.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Melissa Hamilton from Dromore in County Down is a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet in London.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The 35-year-old is performing a special Ballet Gala in Belfast&#8217;s Grand Opera House this weekend.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The showcase will include excerpts from ballet classics such as The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Giselle.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;To be able to bring world-class ballet to Belfast is just incredible,&#8221; she told BBC News NI.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Read more on this story <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp9z50p7xpzo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">here<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx2ddn20nx2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world-renowned ballerina has said coming back to Northern Ireland to perform is a dream come true. Melissa Hamilton from Dromore in County Down is a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet in London. The 35-year-old is performing a special Ballet Gala in Belfast&#8217;s Grand Opera House this weekend. The showcase will include excerpts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6398,420,4607,6400,6399,6401,1160],"class_list":["post-15367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-ballerina","tag-belfast","tag-dream","tag-hamilton","tag-melissa","tag-performing","tag-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15369,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367\/revisions\/15369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}