{"id":1225,"date":"2010-10-18T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:04:59","slug":"my-world-oklahomas-indian-ballerinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"My World – Oklahoma’s Indian Ballerinas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yogi’s spent some time Saturday afternoon at the Tulsa History Center. Among other things we found was a series of sculptures entitled “The Five Moons.” It consists of five sculptures by Gary Henson and Monte England depicting the Five Oklahoma Indian ballerinas who achieved international acclaim in the 1940’s to the 1960’s for their dancing. After their dancing careers, they continued in various teaching and director roles in the dance fields for decades.<\/p>\n

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First row, from left to right: Yvonne Chouteau<\/a> (Shawnee Tribe), Rosella Hightower<\/a> (Choctaw Tribe), Moscelyne Larkin<\/a> (Peoria-Shawnee tribe)<\/p>\n

Second row, left, Marjorie Tallchief<\/a>, (Osage Nation), and then her sister Maria Tallchief<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The achievements and contributions to the world that these women made are many.  For example, Maria Tallchief originated the role of the Sugar Plum fairy in the Balanchine version of The Nutcracker. Click on the links to find out more about them.<\/p>\n

In 1997 these women were honored by the State of Oklahoma as State Treasures. We Okies are very proud of them.<\/p>\n

Check out That’s My World<\/a> for more images of our shared world.<\/p>\n

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Here<\/a> is a link to a YouTube video featuring Rudolf Nureyev dancing with Maria Tallchief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yogi’s spent some time Saturday afternoon at the Tulsa History Center. Among other things we found was a series of sculptures entitled “The Five Moons.” It consists of five sculptures by Gary Henson and Monte England depicting the Five Oklahoma Indian ballerinas who achieved international acclaim in the 1940’s to the 1960’s for their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,70,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-world","category-oklahoma","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}