Biographies: Notable Dancers and Choreographers
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Notable Dancers and Choreographers
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- Ailey, Alvin, Jr., modern dancer and choreographer
- Alonso, Alicia, ballerina and choreographer
- Ashley, Merrill, ballerina
- Ashton, Sir Frederick, choreographer and dancer
- Astaire, Fred, dancer
- Béjart, Maurice, ballet dancer and opera director
- Balanchine, George, choreographer and ballet dancer
- Baryshnikov, Mikhail, dancer and choreographer
- Bausch, Pina, dancer and choreographer
- Bolger, Ray, dancer, actor
- Bournonville, Auguste, dancer
- Brothers, The Nicholas, dancers, actors
- Brown, Trisha, modern dancer and choreographer
- Bruhn, Erik, ballet dancer
- Bujones, Fernando, ballet dancer
- Caron, Leslie, dancer, actress
- Castle, Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe), and Irene Foote, husband-and-wife dance team
- Clercq, Tanaquil Le, ballerina
- Cunningham, Merce, modern dancer and choreographer
- d'Amboise, Jacques, dancer and choreographer
- Danilova, Alexandra, ballerina
- de Mille, Agnes, choreographer and dancer
- Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich, ballet impresario and art critic
- Dolin, Sir Anton, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Duncan, Isadora, dancer
- Dunham, Katherine, dancer
- Eglevsky, André, dancer
- Elssler, Fanny, dancer
- Fagan, Garth, dancer and choreographer
- Farrell, Suzanne, ballet dancer
- Flatley, Michael, dancer, choreographer
- Fokine, Michel, choreographer and ballet dancer
- Fonteyn, Dame Margot, ballerina
- Fosse, Bob, choreographer, dancer
- Fuller, Loie, dancer and theatrical innovator
- Graham, Martha, dancer
- Greco, José, dancer and choreographer
- Green, Chuck, tap dancer
- Helpmann, Sir Robert, dancer and choreographer
- Hines, Gregory, dancer, actor
- Horton, Lester, modern dancer
- Humphrey, Doris, modern dancer and choreographer
- Ito, Michio, dancer, choreographer
- Ivanov, Lev, dancer
- Jamison, Judith, dancer and choreographer
- Jones, Bill T., dancer and choreographer
- Jooss, Kurt, dancer
- Karsavina, Tamara, prima ballerina
- Kaye, Nora, ballerina
- Kelly, Gene, dancer
- Kirstein, Lincoln, dance and theater executive and writer
- Laban, Rudolf von, dancer
- Lang, Pearl, dancer and choreographer
- Lifar, Serge, dancer
- Limón, José, modern dancer, choreographer
- Makarova, Natalia, ballet dancer
- Marchowsky, Marie, choreographer, dancer
- Markova, Dame Alicia, ballerina
- Martins, Peter, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Massine, Léonide, choreographer and ballet dancer
- Mitchell, Arthur, dancer
- Moiseyev, Igor Alexsandrovich, dancer and choreographer
- Monk, Meredith Jane, dancer
- Morris, Mark, dancer and choreographer
- Nijinska, Bronislava, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Nijinsky, Vaslav, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Nikolais, Alwin, dancer and choreographer
- Nureyev, Rudolf, ballet dancer
- Pavlova, Anna Matveyevna, ballerina
- Perrot, Jules, dancer and choreographer
- Petipa, Marius, dancer and choreographer
- Petit, Roland, dancer and choreographer
- Plisetskaya, Maya, dancer
- Prowse, Juliet, dancer
- Rambert, Dame Marie, a founder of the ballet
- Reinking, Ann, dancer, choreographer, actor
- Robbins, Jerome, choreographer and dancer
- Sokolova, Lydia, ballerina
- St. Denis, Ruth, dancer
- Taglioni, Maria, ballerina
- Tallchief, Maria, ballerina
- Tapps, Georgie, tap dancer
- Taylor, Paul, modern dance choreographer
- Tetley, Glen, modern dancer and choreographer
- Tharp, Twyla, dancer and choreographer
- Tudor, Antony, choreographer and dancer
- Tune, Tommy, dancer
- Ulanova, Galina, ballerina
- Valois, Dame Ninette de, ballet director
- Verdon, Gwen, dancer, actor
- Vestris, Gaetan, classical dancer
- Villella, Edward, ballet dancer
- Weidman, Charles, modern dancer and choreographer
- Wigman, Mary, dancer
- Youskevitch, Igor, ballet dancer.
- Zemach, Benjamin, dancer, choreographer
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