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Published on 5/17/08
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Gene Siskel Film Center | Find Tickets
164 N State St
(at Randolph St)
Loop/West Loop, Chicago
| Map
312-846-2600
El: Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple (rush hrs) to State/Lake; Red to Lake; Blue to Clark/Lake. | Directions
Tickets: $9, students $7
Sandra Osawa's 2007 documentary traces the biography of Maria Tallchief, born in 1925. One of the nation's first American Indian ballerinas, she is also a longtime Chicago resident. Learn about her Osage Nation heritage, her ballet training under the Russian Mme. Nijinska, her personal and professional partnership with George Balanchine as prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet, her part in founding the Chicago City Ballet, and much more. The film also includes rare performance footage of the extraordinarily elegant Tallchief in performance. If you can hit the matinee, do, and go early to get a good seat. Tallchief, Osawa and Tallchief's daughter, the noted poet Elise Paschen, will be present for audience discussion at the 3pm screening.
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