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Notable Dancers and Choreographers

  • 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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