List of dance personalities

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This is a list of people involved in dance

Contents 1 Alphabetical 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C 1.4 D 1.5 E 1.6 F 1.7 G 1.8 H 1.9 J 1.10 K 1.11 L 1.12 M 1.13 N 1.14 O 1.15 P 1.16 R 1.17 S 1.18 T 1.19 U 1.20 V 1.21 Z 2 By occupation in ballet 2.1 Theatre directors 2.2 Choreographers 2.3 Dancers 2.4 Teachers 2.5 Designers and scenographers

[edit] Alphabetical

[edit] A

• Alicia Alonso - great Cuban prima ballerina assoluta
• Alvin Ailey - ballet choreographer
• Nina Ananiashvili - ballet dancer
• Gasparo Angiolini - Italian ballet dancer, choreograph and theoretician
• Frederick Ashton - British ballet dancer and choreographer
• Adele Astaire - an American Broadway dancer and singer, Fred Astaire's dance partner from 1905-1931
• Fred Astaire - an American film and Broadway dancer, choreographer, singer and actor.

[edit] B

• George Balanchine - a choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
• Mikhail Baryshnikov - Russian ballet dancer
• Vytautas Beliajus - Lithuanian-American, considered the father of international folk dance
• Hannelore Bey - German ballet dancer
• August Bournonville - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
• Julio Bocca - Argentine ballet dancer
• Erik Bruhn - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
• Darcey Bussell - British ballet dancer

[edit] C

• Yvonne Cartier - British ballet dancer, mime and teacher
• Irene Castle - ballroom dancer
• Vernon Castle - ballroom dancer
• Rebecca Canchani, Prima Ballerina of the National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
• Vakhtang Chabukiani - ballet dancer
• Cyd Charisse - American ballet and film dancer
• Alina Cojocaru - Romanian ballet dancer
• Calico Cooper - American film actress/dancer, daughter of Alice Cooper.
• Angel Corella Spanish Premier Danseur
• Joaquín Cortés - Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
• John Cranko - British ballet dancer and choreographer
• Dick Crum - American, prominent folk dance teacher
• Merce Cunningham - choreographer

[edit] D

• Jean Dauberval - French dancer and choreographer
• Sergei Diaghilev - Russian ballet impressario
• Charles-Louis Didelot - French dancer and choreographer
• Anton Dolin - English ballet dancer and choreographer
• Anthony Dowell - English ballet danver and choreographer
• Isadora Duncan - the Mother of Modern Dance
• Irina Dvorovenko - Ukrainian ballet dancer

[edit] E

• Fanny Elssler - Austrian ballet dancer
• Andre Eglevsky - Russian - American ballet dancer and teacher - performed in Charles Chaplin's film: Limelight

[edit] F

• Suzanne Farrell - ballet dancer
• Jane Farwell - folk dance teacher
• Marie Favart - French ballet dancer
• Michel Fokine - Russian choreographer
• Margot Fonteyn - foremost British ballerina and assoluta

[edit] G

• Yekaterina Geltzer - Prima ballerina of the Bolshoi in the 1910s and 1920s
• Adeline Genée - Danish ballet dancer
• Yvonne Georgi - German ballet dancer
• Elizaveta Gerdt - Russian dancer and teacher
• Pavel Gerdt - "Prince of St Petersburg stage"
• Ailes Gilmour - Early Martha Graham dancer, socialist activitst, and sister of Isamu Noguchi
• Alexander Godunov - Russian dancer who defected to the West
• Jeffrey Golladay - American ballet dancer
• "Ginger and Fred" - Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
• Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer
• Yury Grigorovich - Russian dancer and choreographer

[edit] H

• Evelyn Hart - ballet dancer
• Rita Hayworth - an American film dancer and actress
• Robert Helpmann - ballet dancer
• Audrey Hepburn - ballerina and movie star

[edit] J

• Rowena Jackson - New Zealand prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet
• Zizi Jeanmaire - ballet dancer

[edit] K

• Karen Kain - Canadian prima ballerina
• Vera Karalli - ballet dancer and actress
• Mathilde Kschessinska - the second prima ballerina assoluta
• Gene Kelly - American film and stage dancer, choreographer, singer, actor and film director
• Michael Kidd - American Broadway and film choreographer and dancer

[edit] L

• Rudolf Laban - choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
• Louise Lecavalier - Icon of Canadian contemporary dance
• Pierina Legnani - the first prima ballerina assoluta
• Tracy Li - Chinese ballet dancer who is a senior principail in the Cape Town City Ballet, South Africa
• Serge Lifar - Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer
• Maude Lloyd - South African ballerina and dance critic
• Lydia Lopokova - Russian ballet dancer

[edit] M

• Sabrina Matthews - Canadian ballet choreographer and former ballet dancer
• Sulamith Messerer - founder of Japanese ballet
• Ann Miller - Great American Dancer,Singer & Actress
• Arthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
• Arthur Murray - a famous dance instructor and businessman, known for Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise.

[edit] N

• Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
• Ivan Novikoff, Ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
• Rudolf Nureyev - Russian ballet dancer
• Nadia Nerina - South African ballet dancer
• Leon Neshanian - Armenian ballet dancer; performed for Queen of England (1958); at Opera La Scala (1961); live on KCET - 10/67

[edit] O

• Donald O'Connor - American dancer,singer & actor

[edit] P

• Hermes Pan - film choreographer, esp. in collaboration with Fred Astaire
• Merle Park - Zimbabwean ballerina at the Royal Ballet
• Anna Pavlova - legendary Russian prima ballerina, who bought ballet to the world
• Marius Petipa - a choreographer who created the classical ballet
• Maya Plisetskaya - prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1960 to 1990
• Sergiu Pobereznic - Romanian ballet principal dancer and teacher
• Olga Preobrajenska - Russian dancer and teacher
• Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.

[edit] R

• Daniel Rajna - South African ballet dancer, currently a principal in the Cape Town City Ballet
• Ginger Rogers - American film and stage dancer, singer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire.
• Pedro Romeiras - dancer gold medal winner 1982 II Prix Français de la Danse

[edit] S

• Moira Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress in the Red Shoes
• Teresa Simas - Portuguese dancer and choreographer
• Yuri Soloviev - soloist of the Kirov Theatre
• Phyllis Spira-Boyd - South African ballet dancer
• Lynn Seymour - Canadian ballet dancer

[edit] T

• Paul Taylor - American choreographer
• Marie Taglioni - Italian ballet dancer
• Twyla Tharp - American dancer and choreographer
• Emmanuel Thibault (born 1974) (Dancer, Paris Opera Ballet")
• Tamara Toumanova (1919-1997) (one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas")
• Roger Tully (born 1928) (Dancer, teacher)

[edit] U

• Galina Ulanova (1910-1998), the great Soviet prima ballerina assoluta

[edit] V

• Agrippina Vaganova, founder of Vaganova method
• Vera-Ellen - an American Broadway and film dancer and actress
• Gwen Verdon - Broadway dancer and actress
• Ben Vereen - Tony Award winning,Emmy Award nominated actor,dancer & singer
• Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet of London
• Anastasia Volochkova - Russian prima ballerina

[edit] Z

• Svetlana Zakharova - principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet

[edit] By occupation in ballet

[edit] Theatre directors

Gerald Arpino, Jean Dauberval, Robert de Warren, Sergei Diaghilev, Robert Joffrey, Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Catherine de' Medici, Marie Rambert, Ninette de Valois, Diana Waldron

[edit] Choreographers

Main article: List of choreographers

Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Pierre Beauchamp, Erik Bruhn, Peter Darrell, Deborah Engerman, Mikhail Fokine, William Forsythe, Yury Grigorovich, Lev Ivanovich Ivanov, Serge Lifar, Kenneth MacMillan, Léonide Massine, Sabrina Matthews, Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska, Jean-Georges Noverre, Rudolf Nureyev, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Filippo Taglioni, Antony Tudor, Ian Steyn du Toit, Robert de Warren,

[edit] Dancers

Carlos Acosta, Alicia Alonso, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Michael Beare, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Jeremie Belingard, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Ashley Bouder, Erik Bruhn, Fernando Bujones, Darcey Bussell, Jose Manuel Carreno, Fanny Cerito, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Alina Cojocaru, Angel Corella, Gillian DiAddezio, Anton Dolin, Aurelie Dupont, Irina Dvorovenko, Fanny Elssler, Megan Fairchild, Suzanne Farrell, Alessandra Ferri, Margot Fonteyn, Yekaterina Geltzer, Adeline Genée, Pavel Gerdt, Ailes Gilmour, Jeffrey Golladay Marcelo Gomes, Lucile Grahn, John Grensback, Carlotta Grisi, Sylvie Guillem, Evelyn Hart, Rex Harrington, Melissa Hayden, Paloma Herrera, Laurent Hilaire, Greta Hodgkinson, Rowena Jackson, Charles Jude, Karen Kain, Allegra Kent, Julie Kent, Darci Kistler, Mathilde Kschessinska, Johan Kobborg, Maria Kowroski, Jennifer Lauren, Pierina Legnani, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Leriche, Agnes Letestu, Emma Livry, Joaquín De Luz, Vladimir Malakhov, Alicia Markova, Jose Martinez, Elisabeth Maurin, Patricia McBride, Briely Movric, Gillian Murphy, Kyra Nichols, Peter Naumann, Nadia Nerina, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marianela Nunez, Rudolf Nureyev, Karen Paisey, Anna Pavlova, David Peden, Elisabeth Platel, Maya Plisetskaya, Sergiu Pobereznic, Olga Preobrajenska, Laetitia Pujol, Lloyd Riggins, Rolando Sarabia, Moira Shearer, Yuri Soloviev, Phyllis Spira, Ethan Stiefel, Marian St Claire, Sofiane Sylve, Marie Taglioni, Maria Tallchief, Ludmilla Tchérina, Emmanuel Thibault, Mel Tomlinson, Galina Ulanova, Edward Verso, Michael Vester, Auguste Vestris, Gaetan Vestris, Diana Vishneva, Wendy Whelan, Rosalyn Whitten, Miyako Yoshida, Svetlana Zakharova, Uliana Lopatkina Jennifer Butler Svetlana Zakharova,

[edit] Teachers

Thoinot Arbeau, Cyril Atanassoff, George Balanchine, Pierre Beauchamp, Carlo Blasis, Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, August Bournonville, Enrico Cecchetti, Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Elisabeth Gerdt, Stanley Holden, Gelsey Kirkland, David Howard, Attilio Labis, Nicolai Legat, Sulamith Messerer, Peter Naumann, Valentina Pereyaslavic, Jules Perrot, Domenico da Piacenza, Lauren Plutachuvzo, Sergiu Pobereznic, Anna Pavlova, Olga Preobrajenska, Pierre Rameau, Jerome Robbins, olivia Russell Margarita de Saá, Agrippina Vaganova, Auguste Vestris, Vera Volkova, Inga Lujurenko, Diana Waldron, Stanley Williams.

[edit] Designers and scenographers

Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Christian Bérard, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, John Craxton, Salvador Dalí, André Derain, Barbara Karinska, Barry Kay, Pablo Picasso, Pavel Tchelitchev, Maurice Utrillo