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After retiring from dancing, Tallchief moved to Chicago, where husband Buzz Paschen resided. [10] She served as director of ballet for the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1973 to 1979. [ 2 ] In 1974, she founded Lyric Opera's ballet school, where she taught the Balanchine technique.
She danced all over the world before retiring in Chicago with her husband Henry Paschen Jr. (who died in 2004), the couple's daughter, Elise Paschen, who is an award-winning poet, and Tallchief's ...
Her latest poetry book, Tallchief, was a tribute to her mother and was released in October 2023. [3] Her poem "Wi’-gi-e" was credited as inspiration for the title of the non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), which contained her poem and was adapted into the 2023 film of the same name. [4]
In 1980, she formed Upstream productions with her husband, Yasu Osawa. [6] She met Osawa while at UCLA. [2] Her first documentary, In the Heart of Big Mountain focuses on Kathrine Smith, a Navajo matriarch and the relocation of her tribe. She worked on The Eight Fire for NBC which examined treaty rights in three different parts of the U.S.
Maria Tallchief's younger sister, Marjorie Tallchief was born in 1926 in Denver, Colorado, during a family vacation. She grew up in Fairfax until the family moved to California when she was a girl.
Maria Tallchief, an Osage dancer from Oklahoma known as "America's first prima ballerina" is the latest in the line of Inspiring Women to be immortalized as a Barbie doll. In celebration of Native ...
Marjorie Tallchief (Osage Nation, 1926–2021 [11]) was born during a family vacation to Denver, Colorado, but grew up in Fairfax, Oklahoma. She and her sister, Maria Tallchief, moved with the family to California to pursue ballet training when they were young. She studied with Ernest Belcher, Bronislava Nijinska, and David Linchine. Tallchief ...
Maria Tallchief, one of the featured dancers, married Balanchine during the run of the show. Ballet dancer James Starbuck portrayed the roles of Freddy and Tito in the Broadway production. It ran in London for 526 performances at the Palace Theatre , the first Broadway show to cross the Atlantic after the end of the Second World War.