{"id":521005,"date":"2026-04-09T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:33:14","slug":"britains-first-professional-black-ballerina-has-shoes-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521005\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s first professional black ballerina has shoes restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dancer said it was her late mothers idea to have the shoes restored: &#8220;It just turned out that life is busy as we all know it, and I never got the opportunity to get them fixed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each episode, The Repair Shop features different people having personal loved pieces restored by expert craftspeople. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My idea was to have them mounted somehow, just slightly salvaged in some way, but Dean exceeded my expectations,&#8221; Felix added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Felix worked as Head of Dance at St Martin&#8217;s Girls School in Solihull until her retirement, and has since been awarded an MBE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Repair Shop airs on 8 April at 20:00 BST on BBC1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dancer said it was her late mothers idea to have the shoes restored: &#8220;It just turned out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}