Yvonne Chouteau

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v. l. No. Maria Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin.
v. l. No. Marjorie Tallchief, Rosella Hightower.

Yvonne Myra Chouteau (born March 7, 1929 in Fort Worth , Texas , † January 24, 2016 ) was a Native American ballerina . She was one of The Five Moons, or Native Prima ballerinas of Oklahoma . In 1962 she and her husband Miguel Terekhov , dancer of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo , founded the first fully accredited university dance school in the United States, the Oklahoma City Civic Ballet of the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma . Chouteau was a member of the Shawnee tribe, but also of French descent as the great-great-great-granddaughter of Major Jean Pierre Chouteau . The Chouteau family from St. Louis founded Oklahoma's oldest European-American settlement in 1796 at what is now Salina . She grew up in Vinita , Oklahoma .

Life

Chouteau began dancing , inspired by a performance by the well-known dancer Alexandra Danilova in Oklahoma City . She studied at the School of American Ballet in New York . In 1943 Danilova recommended her to Serge Denham for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. At the age of 14, she was the youngest dancer ever to join this ballet company . In 1945 she danced her first solo role in Coppélia . At 18, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame as the youngest member .

In 1956, Chouteau married the dancer Miguel Terekhov . Together they organized the Oklahoma City Civic Ballet (now Oklahoma City Ballet). In 1962 she and her husband founded the first fully accredited dance department in the USA at the University of Oklahoma in Norman (Oklahoma) . She was featured in Ballets Russes , a documentary by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller that premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival .

Together with the four other dancers of Indian descent ( Rosella Hightower , Moscelyne Larkin , Maria Tallchief and Marjorie Tallchief ), who all danced at the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Chouteau was part of the prominent ballet group The Five Moons .

Honors

Governor Frank Keating designated it on October 8, 1997 as a treasure of Oklahoma. When the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington, DC in 2004, Chouteau received the National Cultural Treasures Award for her contribution to the nation's cultural heritage at the opening ceremony .

The sculpture

As a member of the Five Moons, Chouteau was honored in November 2007, along with four other dancers of Indian descent (Rosella Hightower, Moscelyne Larkin, Maria Tallchief and her sister Marjorie Tallchief) with a bronze statue from the cycle by the sculptor Monte England . England started sculpture in 1995; when he died in 2005, Gary Henson continued the work. The statues are located on the west lawn in the garden of the Tulsa Historical Society in Tulsa , Oklahoma.

photos

The Chickasaw painters Mike Larsen made for the Oklahoma State Capitol Rotunda in Oklahoma City a mural called Flight of Spirit . Another picture is from the Muskogee Jerome Tiger .

ballet

A ballet called The Four Moons was written for the Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festival in 1967 and reflects the tribal origins of the five artists. The music is by Louis Ballard , a Quapaw - Cherokee .

literature

Lili Cockerille Livingston wrote a biography of the five women, American Indian ballerinas, but left out Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski at their request.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Livingston, Lili Cockerille. American Indian ballerinas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999: 56., English
  2. ↑ Vincent, Melissa. Chouteau, Myra Yvonne (Terekhov) (1929-) ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture, 2009, accessed February 9, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.library.okstate.edu
  3. ↑ OU dance school founder Yvonne Chouteau dies at 86
  4. ↑ Jack Anderson: Miguel Terekhov, Dancer With Ballets Russes, Dies at 83 . In: New York Times , January 9, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2011.  English
  5. ^ Oklahoma Historical Society . Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 26, 2008. English @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.library.okstate.edu
  6. ^ Tulsa People, The Indian Ballerinas, May 2007 . Retrieved May 26, 2008., English
  7. ^ Revolver Group - Balle Russe . Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2008., English
  8. ^ Zeitgeist Films . Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 26, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeitgeistfilms.com
  9. ^ Scott Foundas: Variety Feb. 17, 2005 . February 17, 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2008. 
  10. ↑ Camille Hardy: Dance Magazine, February 1998 . In: Dance Magazine . Retrieved May 26, 2008.  , English.
  11. ^ Oklahoma Arts Council, News release, Sept. 14, 2004 . Archived from the original on December 16, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 26, 2008., English @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.state.ok.us
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Tulsa World , November 11, 2007 , English@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tulsaworld.com
  13. ^ Tulsa Historical Society, "Five Moons Rising" . Archived from the original on August 12, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 26, 2008., English @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tulsahistory.org
  14. ↑ Rosella Hightower, Prima Ballerina and School Founder, Is Dead at 88 The New York Times, November 4, 2008, English
  15. ↑ Foster, Toni Annette. Larkin, Moscelyne (1925-) . ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Oklahoma Historical Society Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.library.okstate.edu
  16. ↑ Morand, Ann, Kevin Smith, Daniel C. Swan, and Sarah Erwin. Treasures of Gilcrease: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum, 2003: 111. ISBN 0-9725657-1-X
  17. ↑ Everett, Dianna. Ballard, Louis Wayne (1931-). ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.library.okstate.edu
  18. ↑ Livingston, Lili Cockerille. American Indian ballerinas . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999: xix.
personal data
SURNAME Chouteau, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chouteau, Myra Yvonne (maiden name); Terekhov, Myra Yvonne (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth , Texas , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2016