Ballet Dancer

Yvonne Chouteau

Native American ballet dancer (1929–2016)

Born 1929 · Fort WorthDied 2016United States
Yvonne Chouteau
Image: Jno.skinner · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Yvonne Chouteau was an American ballet dancer, born in 1929 in Fort Worth, who died in 2016.

Biography

Myra Yvonne Chouteau () (March 7, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was a Native American ballerina and one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. She was the only child of Corbett Edward and Lucy Annette Chouteau. She was born March 7, 1929, in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1943, she became the youngest dancer ever accepted to the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, where she worked for fourteen years. In 1962, she and her husband, Miguel Terekhov, founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma. She was a member of the Shawnee Tribe.

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Contemporaries

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