{"id":2142,"date":"2025-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/barbara-mcdaniel-three-decades-dance-wolmers-prep-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:57:07","slug":"barbara-mcdaniel-three-decades-dance-wolmers-prep-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/barbara-mcdaniel-three-decades-dance-wolmers-prep-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara McDaniel: three decades of dance and discipline at Wolmer\u2019s Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/entertainment\/20250927\/barbara-mcdaniel-three-decades-dance-and-discipline\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gleaner profiled Barbara McDaniel \u2014 \u201cMiss B\u201d \u2014 founder and artistic director of Dance Theatre Xaymaca and long-time leader of the Wolmer\u2019s Dance Troupe at Wolmer\u2019s Preparatory School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McDaniel\u2019s training began at the Jamaica School of Dance in 1985. Within six years she was leading Wolmer\u2019s Prep to 60 gold and 15 silver medals in the JCDC National Dance Competition. She later received the Ivy Baxter Award for Excellence in Dance, and launched Dance Theatre Xaymaca in 1995 with her senior Wolmer\u2019s students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gleaner recorded more than 36 years of service to Wolmer\u2019s Prep \u2014 as dance teacher, dean of discipline, development coordinator and events coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/entertainment\/20250927\/barbara-mcdaniel-three-decades-dance-and-discipline\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a>, September 27, 2025. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jamaica Gleaner September 27, 2025 The Gleaner profiled Barbara McDaniel \u2014 \u201cMiss B\u201d \u2014 founder and artistic director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}