Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, best known for her iconic role in "Swan Lake," pirouetted her way across the world, garnering admiration far and wide. This esteem manifested itself in a dessert that ...

Considered a prodigy since she discovered ballet at age 13, Misty Copeland has danced across the world’s stages, performing alongside the Nutcracker Prince and the late musical icon Prince alike, and ...

Once known as the famous International Ballet School West, the brick building tucked away on Montana Avenue that launched the careers of famous prima ballerinas has been transformed and into one of ...

The US Mint has started shipping out quarters with the likeness of a famous Osage nation woman. Maria Tallchief was America's first major prima ballerina and broke barriers as a Native American ballet ...

On Nov. 27, 1949, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief waited for her cue in the wings of the City Center in downtown Manhattan, preparing to take the stage in the New York City Ballet’s premiere of ...

(CNN) — The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. Before class, students can be found warming up with plies and battements, battering pointe shoes or ...

The image of Maria Tallchief, considered the country’s first prima ballerina, was put on the U.S. quarter this week. Born in 1925 in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, she got her start as a dancer in ...

Tallchief, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, and her daughter, Elise Paschen, tells PEOPLE how "exciting" it is to see her mother memorialized as a Barbie Mattel;Getty Maria ...

To judge by last year’s furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet’s top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan’s City ...

OKLAHOMA (KFOR) —Barbie celebrates women with different careers and backgrounds. Her latest adventure is honoring Oklahoma’s own, Maria Tallchief. Maria Tallchief, Courtesy: Oklahoma Historical ...

TULSA, Okla. — Barbie is honoring the Osage Nation Prima Ballerina Maria Tallchief with a doll for Native American Heritage Month. The Tallchief doll is the second from an Oklahoma tribe in the ...