Chicago City Ballet

…as artistic director of the Chicago City Ballet. In 1996 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and that year she also received a Kennedy Center Honor. The autobiography Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (cowritten with Larry Kaplan) was published in 1997.

…and helped Maria found the Chicago City Ballet (1980). From 1989 to 1993 she was director of dance at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida.