For Native American Heritage Month, as part of our “Hidden Histories” series, we look back on the life of Maria Tallchief, an Osage Nation dancer who left an indelible mark on the world of ballet.

PORT ANGELES — Filmmakers Sandra Sunrising Osawa and Yasu Osawa will screen their film “Maria Tallchief,” a woman considered to be America’s first major prima ballerina, at 3 p.m. Thursday. The free ...

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 learning ...

Ballet’s glorious past and new ways of melding choreography and cinema make up the second annual “Dance on Camera” festival, being held this weekend at the Circle Cinema. Two separate programs will be ...

The U.S., which lacks Europe’s state-supported ballet schools and its longstanding ballet tradition, is supposed to be a dim spot for the production of topflight classical ballerinas. Last week, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Widely considered America’s first prima ballerina, Tallchief is being celebrated by New York City Ballet, where she was a Balanchine muse, in her ...