Yvonne Chouteau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yvonne Chouteau

American ballet dancer

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1929

Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 24-Jan-2016

Profession: ballet dancer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.