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11 de abr. de 2013 · Maria Tallchief. Commemoration. (dancer and teacher; born January 24, 1925, Fairfax, Oklahoma-April 11, 2013) "A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes th her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role," Maria Tallchief once said. "As an American, I believe in great individualism.
Maria Tallchief, age 3 or 4 (1929) by Granger National Women’s History Museum. Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief was born in a small hospital on January 14, 1925 in Fairfax, Oklahoma to Ruth Porter and Alexander Joseph Tall Chief, member of the Osage Nation. Her younger sister, Marjorie, was born a year later.
16 de abr. de 2013 · Maria Tallchief, who died last Thursday, at the age of eighty-eight, was the first grand ballerina produced by this country. The daughter of an oil-rich Osage Indian (she had the cheekbones to ...
Maria Tallchief in SYMPHONY IN C, choreography by George Balanchine ©️The George Balanchine Trust. Photographer unknown. Maria Tallchief began her ballet training at the age of three on the Osage Indian Reservation in northern Oklahoma and continued to do so upon her family’s relocation to Los Angeles in 1933 with Ernest Belcher.
12 de abr. de 2013 · Maria Tallchief, who broke barriers to become one of the most respected American ballerinas, died on Thursday of complications from a broken hip. She was 88. The New York Times reports that ...
19 de nov. de 2019 · “MARIA TALLCHIEF momentarily turns the ballet stage into a runway,” Evening Star (Washington, DC), December 9, 1951. “Onstage, she looks as regal and exotic as a Russian princess; offstage, she is as American as wampum and apple pie,” cheered TIME magazine about prima ballerina Maria Tallchief in 1951. One of the most celebrated Native American women of the 20th century, Tallchief was ...
15 de nov. de 2023 · Maria Tallchief, an Osage woman, revolutionized ballet in the 1940s and became America’s first prima ballerina. The Osage Ballet hopes to continue her legacy.
