Ballerina Maria Tallchief performs for President John F. Kennedy (1962) | The Kennedy Center

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  • @kas_xo
    @kas_xo 4 роки тому +118

    Thanks, Google! I never would've known about Maria otherwise. What a tremendously talented and beautiful woman.

    • @joannanderson1444
      @joannanderson1444 4 роки тому +1

      And also jacque Valle whome my life work a d help me to be a succusable workers nrsonesinwsbe yevjnphos

    • @1231oreo
      @1231oreo 4 роки тому

      @@joannanderson1444 same here.

    • @rahstara
      @rahstara 4 роки тому

      same!

    • @LeePaul-u4e
      @LeePaul-u4e 20 днів тому

      She's also one of the first principal dancers at the New York city ballet

  • @adawkins5678
    @adawkins5678 4 роки тому +35

    I'm so mad that I'm today years old just learning about Maria Tallchief and all she's done for ballet! 😣 I love ballet and can't believe I haven't heard of her once! Excited to learn more about her though!

  • @kearabevels296
    @kearabevels296 4 роки тому +79

    Very lovely ballerina. She used to have a studio in chicago. My grandfather actually fixed the flooring and all that for her and actually got to meet her. This was years ago though.

    • @jillianmcbeaver8371
      @jillianmcbeaver8371 4 роки тому +1

      what an honor!

    • @thangvuong9196
      @thangvuong9196 Рік тому +1

      America's first Prima Ballerina.

    • @leeannmettlach2412
      @leeannmettlach2412 8 місяців тому

      What an amazing performance & amazing share! I am currently reading Killers of the Flower Moon or should I say trying to read it. It just makes me sad. I follow a channel & they did a podcast where they were walking downtown Fairfax. There is a wooden statue of a ballerina outside of the Tallchief Theater, where they have a memorial set up. I had to try & see Maria Tallchief dance. What a beautiful performance!!!

  • @SnippetsBB
    @SnippetsBB 4 роки тому +74

    It's about time to see honors such as this for the First People. Certainly this was NEVER mentioned in schoolbooks. Writers of schoolbooks MUST have varied ethnic writers/historians at the table.

    • @jillianmcbeaver8371
      @jillianmcbeaver8371 4 роки тому

      agreed!

    • @NeryssaPaige
      @NeryssaPaige 4 роки тому

      She was beloved and famous, and always honored her Osage background. However, Tallchief considered herself a ballet dancer who happened to be a Native American not vice versa. Her autobiography is worth reading.

    • @TrevorMom
      @TrevorMom 5 місяців тому +1

      I love the term First People because that's what Native Americans were. They were first, and if we whites hadn't committed genocide, they would still live on this land. Furthermore, they would have respected it enough to not destroy it for profits.

    • @PowerEnglish4ForeignExecs
      @PowerEnglish4ForeignExecs 5 місяців тому +1

      @@TrevorMom Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I agree that First People contributed much to our American history and as such should be recognized. Happy 4th.

  • @kristinehatkinson7323
    @kristinehatkinson7323 4 роки тому +40

    Her arms are amazingly expressive-- so graceful under the most ambitious movements. Wow. Yes, I think she may be the best-- and I've seen Margot Fonteyn, Nuryev, Baryshnikov and pricnipals of Boston Ballet last 30 years.

  • @carinamoses2704
    @carinamoses2704 2 роки тому +13

    such a beautiful sense of musicality and dramatic timing, and lots of flexibility and flair in the poses - she captures the mix of poetic swan and emotive human personality very well.

  • @OperaJH
    @OperaJH 2 роки тому +9

    I’m originally from Singapore and I had heard of her and seen some film of her magical dancing… so I don’t know why people here wouldn’t have heard of her. I also worked with Pacific Northwest Ballet and the dancers were certainly aware of her, as well as those of in marketing and development.
    At any rate, Maria Tallchief is an American legend and icon of the highest order…

  • @caylya7869
    @caylya7869 4 роки тому +115

    celebrating a native american google. Cool.

    • @albertodiaz9853
      @albertodiaz9853 4 роки тому +3

      Sii

    • @CulturedCarlo
      @CulturedCarlo 4 роки тому +7

      Yup we some of the first people checking her out because of Google haha thanks google!

    • @PamelaJean515
      @PamelaJean515 4 роки тому +2

      Not I. I learned about Maria as a little girl (which was many years ago)

  • @lexizurovec8957
    @lexizurovec8957 2 роки тому +5

    My girl was 37 here. Absolutely insane talent and beauty

  • @nikkitennison6938
    @nikkitennison6938 4 роки тому +22

    Beautiful and elegant Maria....

    • @bananakids_1212
      @bananakids_1212 4 роки тому +1

      You are acting like she is your crush lol

  • @AuntieMamie
    @AuntieMamie 2 місяці тому +1

    What must people think!!! Those were the days. Miss Tallchief is legendary. And she is an American.

  • @racourdav
    @racourdav 4 роки тому +4

    So elegant and graceful...wonderful recognition Google! RIP Maria

  • @Yoliplanting
    @Yoliplanting Рік тому +1

    She was exquisite and incomparable 👏👏👏💖💖💖💖🌸🌸🌸

  • @JillASim
    @JillASim Рік тому +3

    Strength, grace, precision, and the negative space between movements creating tension with her partner (and story), when other ballerinas would have chosen hyper flexibility, delicateness, virtuosity. She was a true artist.

  • @davideasiebert1941
    @davideasiebert1941 2 роки тому +10

    She was 47 years old in this video.......so lovely, graceful, fluid like magic.

  • @pbjsilverstudio4882
    @pbjsilverstudio4882 2 роки тому +1

    I found Maria’s name on the She Persisted book and had to look her up! What a BEAUTIFUL dancer she was!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Brava!!

  • @se9f282
    @se9f282 4 роки тому +4

    She is very lovely. Married to Balanchine, and renowned for her performance of The Firebird.

  • @theendofanerror4173
    @theendofanerror4173 4 роки тому +11

    Google brought me here. Her strength is unbelievable!! 😍

  • @insaelliott1318
    @insaelliott1318 Рік тому +1

    Oh - she was such a Queen of Dance! What charisma, elegance and attack!

  • @queenteireigns6212
    @queenteireigns6212 4 роки тому +2

    Beautiful! Thanks for the history lesson!

  • @PeggyR70
    @PeggyR70 Рік тому +1

    She looks light as air and has such incredible control of her movements. I dont know much about ballet but this looked as perfect as could be.

  • @MsEmilylovesya
    @MsEmilylovesya 4 роки тому +3

    So beautiful and elegant, I always click on the Google homage for this reason. She makes everything look effortless

  • @cathyroque954
    @cathyroque954 2 роки тому +2

    She's amazing!🤩

  • @yelenazerk
    @yelenazerk 3 роки тому +1

    Woow amazing. Never knew there is so much to this pas de deux wow its looooooooong!!!

  • @andres16251
    @andres16251 4 роки тому +3

    Maria's technique= perfection

  • @ericahorton2162
    @ericahorton2162 4 роки тому +1

    Wow! She;s amazing!

  • @leonorsnowe1823
    @leonorsnowe1823 4 роки тому +1

    Absolutely beautiful.
    She is also in the book Gutsy women.💃

  • @woodenloonynickel
    @woodenloonynickel 8 місяців тому

    Thank you.

  • @sugarhoney2175
    @sugarhoney2175 3 місяці тому

    Wouldn’t know her name if I didn’t look at the back a quarter in my hand 😢 thankful to these coins! Ballet always makes me cry she’s beautiful

  • @DianaKazimiera-
    @DianaKazimiera- 4 роки тому

    This absolutely amazing dancers 👏👏👏

  • @MrQbenDanny
    @MrQbenDanny 2 роки тому +3

    What a great joy to see the magnificent Siegfried of ROYES FERNANDEZ!!!

  • @pamelabartock4696
    @pamelabartock4696 4 роки тому +8

    My favorite ballerina!

    • @edithdlp8045
      @edithdlp8045 4 роки тому +5

      Wow. The best I have seen. I just knew her because of google. I was missing out

  • @CaseyRoche
    @CaseyRoche 4 роки тому +7

    At 37 years old!

    • @Action_Slacks
      @Action_Slacks 4 роки тому +1

      Hard to believe! Most people can't even walk after age 35!

    • @edithdlp8045
      @edithdlp8045 4 роки тому +1

      @@Action_Slacks I had a brain tumor removal surgery at 43 and now at 45 need a walker to get around. I wish I could walk not dance like she did, simply awesome.

  • @qatarbeyondthelens9144
    @qatarbeyondthelens9144 3 роки тому +1

    tallchief was an article in my sat

  • @SweetTater
    @SweetTater 5 місяців тому

    Incredible talent.

  • @maeve40fitness
    @maeve40fitness 11 місяців тому

    Learned from Maria and her sister Marjorie. Legends!

  • @nauonevabb
    @nauonevabb 4 роки тому +1

    wow she is amazing

  • @danawinsor1380
    @danawinsor1380 2 роки тому +5

    I wish they would credit the excellent male dancer. Don't forget: a ballerina cannot perform a scene like this without the male dancer to lift her and bring her back down. Most people don't realize how strong these guys have to be!

  • @derphyn
    @derphyn 11 місяців тому

    I just discovered the U.S. 25-cent coin has her image and her name in Osage on the back. The world was so fortunate to have her in it.

  • @drewr2983
    @drewr2983 4 роки тому +1

    BEAUTIFUL. Thanks google.

  • @1psoas9
    @1psoas9 4 роки тому +5

    Who is her partner here? He presents her beautifully

  • @Henry-n7n8
    @Henry-n7n8 4 роки тому +4

    can't imagine all the training this took.

  • @waboosejackson3711
    @waboosejackson3711 3 роки тому +1

    I first got a schooling about her, on my trimet ride in Portland Oregon, a gentleman asked if I was a dancer, I said No, I just dance pow wow style, he told me I had a dancer's body whatever that means.

  • @cheyannelecamp226
    @cheyannelecamp226 4 роки тому +3

    shes gorgeous

  • @bananakids_1212
    @bananakids_1212 4 роки тому +2

    Cool

  • @danawinsor1380
    @danawinsor1380 2 роки тому

    Beautiful video -- thanks for posting! BTW, the title's not quite correct -- the Kennedy Center didn't open until 1970.

  • @sheilabloom6735
    @sheilabloom6735 Рік тому

    I just found out she was a member of the Osage tribe; her sister was also a well-known ballerina.

  • @MrAlexanderrangel
    @MrAlexanderrangel 4 роки тому

    she moves like no other person I've ever seen

  • @eosornio1558
    @eosornio1558 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you google for letting me know this legend is Native American

  • @donteporchia1744
    @donteporchia1744 7 місяців тому +1

    🩰

  • @Dammi-y1t
    @Dammi-y1t 4 місяці тому

    Yo la conocí por la moneda especial que tengo😢😢

  • @AliciaMarkoe
    @AliciaMarkoe 4 роки тому

    pretty

  • @woodenloonynickel
    @woodenloonynickel 8 місяців тому

    I have come to know sarcasm.

  • @tombaird2584
    @tombaird2584 10 місяців тому

    And who is her partner???? She couldn't have done that without him!

    • @gazzablanca
      @gazzablanca 10 місяців тому

      It is John f kennedy