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☆ Maria Tallchief, America’s first prima ballerina, continues to inspire new generations of Native American dancers
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. The Osage Ballet hopes to continue to inspire a new generations of dancers in her honor. But Tallchief refused and insisted on dancing as Maria Tallchief, keeping her Osage name, according to a biography of the ballerina by the School of American Ballet. Ballerina Maria Tallchief WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Getty ImagesElise Paschen, Tallchief’s daughter and a poet, told CNN her mother took great pride in her heritage. Smith said she hopes the Osage Ballet will continue Tallchief’s pioneering legacy of dance and Native American representation in ballet.
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☆ A Physical and Spiritual Awakening (but No Steady Paycheck)
  + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Gia Kourlas | More About Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Let her dance.’”She was short, her turnout was nonexistent and her feet needed a lot of work. She is firm about one thing: If her young self were to audition for the School of American Ballet today, she wouldn’t get in — much less into the company. And I think that was the main thing he respected about me. And I think he saw that I loved to dance.”Walczak was also a sharp observer. (With the dancer Una Kai, she wrote “Balanchine the Teacher,” a jewel of a book examining the fundamentals that shaped the company’s first generation.)
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☆ How the New ‘Little Mermaid’ Goes Back ‘Under the Sea’
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Mekado Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
So right about here, as the turtles start to move, then you see, O.K., there’s a little bit of dance starting to happen. And I took a page out of Walt Disney’s playbook, and I worked with the Alvin Ailey Company. He had worked with the Ballet Russe Company when he created ‘Fantasia.’ And I thought that was such a brilliant idea. And then we found all these sea creatures that actually lent themselves to dance naturally. These are all real sea creatures.
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