Tallchief
Americannoun
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New York City Ballet’s 2024-25 season will feature earlier curtain times, fewer intermissions and a tribute to the great American ballerina Maria Tallchief, the company announced on Monday.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024
“He seemed like a child himself when he was choreographing,” wrote Maria Tallchief, the original Sugarplum in City Ballet’s production, in 1954, in her autobiography.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Museum officials say the Five Moons statue of Marjorie Tallchief was probably removed Thursday from its plinth outside the Tulsa Historical Society, the Tulsa World reported.
From Washington Post • May 2, 2022
Nor will it ever be too late to encounter Wilma Rudolph or Maria Tallchief.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021
The Osage have long been linked to the world of classical dance, having produced two of the greatest ballerinas, the sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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