Maria Tallchief, one of America's ... Jacques d'Amboise, a former New York City Ballet dancer who partnered with Tallchief in many performances, said she was the Mount Everest of dance.

In December 1963, famed prima ballerina Maria Tallchief returned to her home state of Oklahoma to perform one of her signature roles: the Sugar Plum Fairy in "The Nutcracker." Tallchief's ...

The image of Maria Tallchief, considered the country’s first prima ballerina, was put on the U.S. quarter this week. Born in 1925 in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, she got her start as a dancer ...

75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina Published: Dec. 23, 2024, 9:00 a.m. Ballet dancers perform on stage ...

CHICAGO — Maria Tallchief, one of America’s first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as “The Nutcracker,” “Firebird,” and other masterpieces from… ...

Maria Tallchief, one of America’s first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as “The Nutcracker,” “Firebird,” and other masterpieces from legendary choreographer George ...

Maria Tallchief had been with Ballet Russe for two years when the most significant artistic event of her ... Japan and Russia where Premier Nikita Khrushchev once breezed in for a performance. ...

The dance world has been celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of Maria Tallchief, the first American prima ballerina and one of five Oklahoma-born dancers.

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.

Tallchief, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, and her daughter, Elise Paschen, tells PEOPLE how "exciting" it is to see her mother memorialized as a Barbie. News.

CHICAGO Maria Tallchief, one of America's first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as "The Nutcracker," "Firebird," and other masterpieces from legendary choreographer George ...

By Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. Before class, students can be found warming up with plies and ...