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The Oklahoma City Ballet is a professional dance company and school located in Oklahoma City. The company began under the artistic direction of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers Yvonne Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov in the Science and Arts Foundation building on the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds .
The American Spirit Dance Company is an American dance company in association with Oklahoma City University. It has been founded 1981 and is directed by Professor Jo Rowan , chairman of the Oklahoma City University Dance Department .
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. [1] A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she also had French ancestry, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau.
The school opened in Oklahoma City as Oklahoma City College in 1919, bolstered by funding from Methodist congregations. [7] The college experienced rapid growth and changed its name to Oklahoma City University in 1924. [7] Despite the success and growth of the university in the 1920s, OCU again fell on hard times during the Great Depression. [7]
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Karen Brown (born 1955 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma) is an American ballerina, educator, répétiteur, ballet mistress, and director.She is noted for her long career as a principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and as the first African-American woman to lead a ballet company.
The class of 2025 will be the first group of Oklahoma high school students required by state law to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) before they graduate.
Landry Braziel, Community Christian (University of Texas at El Paso) Anna Degraffenreid, Oklahoma Christian School (Mid-America Nazarene) Aja Green, Norman North (Oklahoma Baptist)