Yvonne Chouteau

At 86 years old, Yvonne Chouteau physical status not available right now. We will update Yvonne Chouteau's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Myra Yvonne Chouteau () (March 7, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma.

She was the only child of Col.

Corbett Edward and Lucy Arnett 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.

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.

Source

Career

Chouteau was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 7, 1929. Corbett Chouteau's father worked for an oil company, while Lucy Annette (née Taylor), a schoolteacher, worked at a Walgreens. After seeing the great ballerina Danilova dance in Oklahoma City, Chouteau attended the School of American Ballet in New York before Danilova recommended her to Serge Denham for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1943. She was the first dancer to be accepted at 14 years old. Prayer in Coppelia was her first solo role. (1945) At the age of 18, she was the youngest member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

Chouteau married dancer Miguel Terekhov in 1956. Though her brief marriage was annulled, her first husband, flutist and conductor Claude Monteux, was annulled. After she had her first child with Terekhov, they moved to Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma City Civic Ballet (now Oklahoma City Ballet) was founded by the two performers together. They established the first fully accredited dance department at the University of Oklahoma in 1962 at Norman, Oklahoma. In Ballets Russes, a documentary film by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, she was included in Ballets Russes. On January 24, 2016, she died as a result of a long illness. She worked with such well-known choreographers as George Balanchine, Leonide Massine, Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, and Bronislava Nijinska throughout her career.

Source