1929 - 2016
Yvonne Chouteau American Ballet dancer
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First Name |
Yvonne
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Last Name |
Chouteau
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Full Name at Birth |
Myra Yvonne Chouteau
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Alternative Name |
Yvonne Chouteau, Myra Yvonne Chouteau
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Birthday |
7th March, 1929
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Birthplace |
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Died |
24th January, 2016
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Place of Death |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Build |
Athletic
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Eye Color |
Green
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Hair Color |
Brown - Light
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Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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Ethnicity |
Multiracial
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation |
Ballet dancer
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Myra Yvonne Chouteau () (March 7, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was an 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. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she also had 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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