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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 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 .
In 1962, she founded the Center for Classical Dance in Cannes, France. The school was structured after her beliefs and ideas of what multidisciplinary training should be. Hightower was the director of two companies, Marseilles Opera Ballet in Marseilles, France from 1969 to 1972, and the Ballet de Nancy in France from 1975 to 1978.
Andrew "Andy" Wiederhorn knows a thing or two about second chances. After becoming a millionaire before the age of 30, Wiederhorn pleaded guilty to tax return fraud charges and spent 14 months in ...
There are now many Fatburger locations worldwide that are, "following Yancey’s original business model and theme." She established a $1.7-million endowment at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte in 1986 for research into sickle-cell anemia. This was in fulfillment of a promise to her 22-year-old grandson, Duran Farrell, who had ...
Fatburger in the food court of Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California. Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey (1912–2008) in the neighborhood of Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California, in 1947. It was originally named "Mr. Fatburger" (on behalf of Yancey's boyfriend), until Yancey removed the "Mr." in 1952.
The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle awarded "Fancy Dance" a Special Citation for Achievement in Oklahoma Independent Filmmaking in its 2023 year-end best-of awards.
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. Its purpose is to demonstrate the unique United States' contributions to dance of jazz dance, tap dance, and ...