Yvonne Chouteau
Ballet Dancer, Visual Artist
1929 –
Who is Yvonne Chouteau?
Myra Yvonne Chouteau is one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. 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. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she is also of ethnic French ancestry, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau. From the Chouteau family of St. Louis, he established Oklahoma's oldest European-American settlement, at the present site of Salina, in 1796. She grew up in Vinita, Oklahoma.
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- Born
- Mar 7, 1929
Fort Worth - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- School of American Ballet
- Lived in
- Vinita
- Fort Worth
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on July 23, 2013
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