List of dance personalities
This is a work-in-progress partial list of people involved in dance.
Alphabetical
A
B
C
D
Sophie Daguin - ballet mistress and ballerinaDan Dailey - American film actor and dancerJean Dauberval - French dancer and choreographerShiamak Davar - Indian choreographerDavid Dawson - British choreographerIgone de Jongh - Dutch ballet dancerAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker Louis Deland - ballet master, ballet dancer, choreographerPatricia Delgado - American ballet dancer, répétiteur and teacherMichaela DePrince - Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancerGaby Deslys - French ballroom dancer and actressSasha De Sola - American ballet dancerPrabhu Deva - Indian dancer and choreographerJulie Diana - American ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administratorCharles-Louis Didelot - French dancer and choreographerAnton Dolin - English ballet dancer and choreographerHolly Dorger - American ballet dancerAnthony Dowell - English ballet dancer and choreographerJurgita Dronina - Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancerRemo D'Souza - Indian Bollywood choreographerTabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directorsIsadora Duncan - "mother of modern dance"Katherine Dunham - pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham TechniqueAurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet Irina Dvorovenko - Ukrainian-American ballet dancerAurelia Dimier , French baller dancer
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
Brooklyn Mack - American ballet dancerMayara Magri - Brazilian ballet dancerShantanu Maheshwari - Indian dancer, choreographer and actorNatascha Mair - Austrian ballet dancerNatalia Makarova - Russian ballet dancerDavid Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancerMaia Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancerMarianna Malińska (1767–fl.1797) - first native ballerina in PolandHugo Marchand - French ballet dancerPaul Marque - French ballet dancerRoberta Marquez - Brazilian ballet dancerCathy Marston - British choreographerSophie Martin - French ballet dancerKizzy Matiakis - English ballet dancerJosé Martínez - Spanish ballet dancerWilliam Matons - WPA-era, 1930s modern dancer and choreographer, known later during Calypso craze as Calypso Joe, and later still as General Hershy BarSabrina Matthews - Canadian ballet choreographer and former ballet dancerKay Mazzo - American ballet dancer and educator, Chairman of Faculty of School of American Ballet David McAllister - Australian ballet dancer, former artistic director of The Australian Ballet Wayne McGregor - British choreographerTrey McIntyre - American dancer and choreographerAmanda McKerrow - American ballet dancerRachael McLaren - Canadian dancerSteven McRae - Australian ballet dancerTate McRae - first-ever Canadian finalist in So You Think You Can Dance Sara Mearns - American ballet dancerVrushika Mehta - Indian contemporary dancer and television actressItziar Mendizabal - Spanish ballet dancerSulamith Messerer - founder of Japanese balletJo Mihaly - German dancer and writerAnn Miller - American tap dancer, singer, and actress, especially in filmsArthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancerShakti Mohan - Indian contemporary dancer and winner of Dance India Dance 2 Baisali Mohanty - Indian classical dancer and choreographerPippa Moore - English ballet dancerLaura Morera - Spanish ballet dancerKathryn Morgan - American ballet dancer and YouTuberMary Ellen Moylan - American ballet dancerHope Muir - Canadian dancer, artistic director of National Ballet of Canada , former artistic director of Charlotte Ballet Vadim Muntagirov - Russian ballet dancerGillian Murphy - American ballet dancerGraeme Murphy - Australian choreographerArthur Murray - dance instructor and businessman, known for the Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise Louis-Stanislas Montjoie , French ballet dancer
N
O
P
Stephen Page - Australian choreographer, artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre Ludmila Pagliero - Argentine ballet dancerMaria Palmer - Austrian-born American actress and dancerHermes Pan - film choreographer, especially in collaboration with Fred Astaire Noelani Pantastico - American ballet dancerMerle Park - Zimbabwean ballerina at the Royal BalletSae Eun Park - South Korean ballet dancerGeorgina Parkinson - English ballet dancer and ballet mistressVeronika Part - Russian ballet dancerAnna Pavlova - legendary Russian prima ballerina, who brought ballet to the worldGeorgina Pazcoguin - American ballet dancerJustin Peck - American ballet dancer and choreographerTiler Peck - American ballet dancerRupert Pennefather - English ballet dancerTina Pereira - Trinidadian-Canadian ballet dancerRosie Perez - American (Afro-Puerto Rican descent) dancer, choreographer, actress and directorJules Perrot - French ballet dancer and choreographerMarius Petipa - choreographer who created the classical balletVilhelm Pettersson - Swedish ballet dancerUnity Phelan - American ballet dancerJuanita Pitts - African-American tap dancerMaya Plisetskaya - prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1960 to 1990David Poole - South African ballet dancer and ballet master at Cape Town City Ballet Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing Ida Praetorius - Danish ballet dancerAngelin Preljocaj - French dancer and choreographerOlga Preobrajenska - Russian dancer and teacherJuliet Prowse - South African-American dancer, actress, and singer in many films, including G.I. Blues Elvis Presley Laetitia Pujol - French ballet dancerBrian Puspos - American hip-hop dancer, choreographer
R
S
Stephanie Saland - American ballet dancer and teacherSaleem (Saleem Azzouqa) - gay Muslim playwright, actor, DJ, and dancerIana Salenko - Ukrainian-German ballet dancerMarcelino Sambé - Portuguese ballet dancerOh Sehun - South Korean dancer and member of EXORuth St. Denis - American dancer who tried to fuse modern dance with Egyptian and east Asian ideas; famously in collaboration with her partner Ted Shawn Olga Sandberg (1844–1926) - Swedish ballerinaMargrethe Schall - ballerinaSilja Schandorff - Danish ballet dancerAmanda Schull - American actress and ballet dancerAmber Scott - Australian ballet dancerAnders Selinder - ballet master and choreographerPolina Semionova - Russian ballet dancerHee Seo - South Korean ballet dancerLynn Seymour - Canadian ballet dancerUday Shankar (Bengali: উদয় শংকর) (1900–1977) - pioneer of modern dance in India; world-renowned Indian dancer and choreographer; known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930sTed Shawn - ballet dancer often in collaboration with his influential partner Ruth St. Denis ; they were the creators of Denishawn Moira Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress in The Red Shoes Fang-Yi Sheu - Taiwanese dancerIngrid Silva - Brazilian ballet dancerDaniil Simkin - ballet dancerMary Skeaping - British ballerinaCharlotte Slottsberg - ballet dancerDamian Smith - Australian ballet dancerThiago Soares - Brazilian ballet dancerYuri Soloviev - soloist of the Kirov Theatre Jennie Somogyi - American ballet dancerPhyllis Spira-Boyd - South African ballet dancerHelene Spilling - Norwegian dancer and TV personalityAbi Stafford - American ballet dancerJonathan Stafford - American ballet dancer and artistic director of New York City Ballet Taylor Stanley - American ballet dancerCory Stearns - American ballet dancerLisa Steier - Swedish ballerinaDana Stephensen - Australian ballet dancerEthan Stiefel - American ballet dancer and choreographerBeatriz Stix-Brunell - American ballet dancerMadoka Sugai - Japanese ballet dancerLaurretta Summerscales - British ballet dancerSofiane Sylve - French ballet dancerSofia Boutella - Algerian hip hop dancerShobana - Indian Bharatanatyam dancer
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
By occupation in ballet
Theatre directors
Choreographers
Dancers
Teachers
Designers and scenographers
See also
References
