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A

  • Ayo & Teo, duo of dancers and musicians from Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Fred Astaire ((1899-05-10)10 May 1899 – (1987-06-22)22 June 1987), American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. He was an innovator in dance. He made 31 musical films, 10 featuring his dances with Ginger Rogers, and was honored with the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
  • Mary Anthony, American modern dancer, choreographer, dance teacher.
  • Allu Arjun, Indian actor who works in Telugu Cinema. One of the highest paid actors in India. He is also known for his extraordinary dancing skills.
  • Alisha Singh, Indian television actress, dancer and choreographer
  • Hortensia Arnaud, pioneering Argentine dancer, vedette, and actress of film and stage

B

  • George Balanchine ((1904-01-22)22 January 1904 – (1983-04-30)30 April 1983), Georgian ballet choreographer. He is one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, and one of the founders of American ballet. His work formed a bridge between classical and modern ballet.
  • Bill Bales (1910-1990), American dancer, choreographer, professor and dean; member of Charles Weidman's men's company 1935-; The New Dance Group, New York City; founding member of the Dudley-Maslow-Bales trio in the 1940s and early 1950s. He led Bennington College's dance faculty 1940-1967; founding Dean of Dance of the SUNY Purchase School of the Arts, 1967-1975 and professor of dance 1967-1980.
  • Sara Baras (born 1971), female Flamenco dancer, born in the port of Cadiz
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov (born (1948-01-28)28 January 1948), Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor
  • Rodney Bell (born 1971), known for physically integrated dance
  • Bez (born (1964-04-18)18 April 1964), renowned as the dancer for the Happy Mondays
  • international folk dancing
    in the United States
  • Blaž Bertoncelj and Andrea Podlogar, Slovenian dance and choreography team
  • Neil Bhatt, dancer and actor from India, known for his work in Indian television.
  • Carlo Blasis ((1797-11-04)4 November 1797 – (1878-01-15)15 January 1878), Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician
  • Chrystelle Trump Bond, ((1938-01-01)1 January 1938 – (2020-05-06)6 May 2020) American dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
  • AC Bonifacio (born 2002), Filipino-Canadian actress, singer, model and dancer
  • Anise Boyer (1914–2008), American dancer who was part of the Cotton Club chorus line during the Harlem Renaissance and traveled with Cab Calloway's band
  • James "Buster" Brown
    (1913-2000), internationally renowned American tap dancer
  • James Brown ((1933-05-03)3 May 1933 – (2006-12-25)25 December 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", the "King of Funk", "Soul Brother #1" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was an American entertainer (singer and dancer). He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing.
  • step dancer
  • Glenn Ball (born ( 1985-06-27)27 June 1985} English World champion line dancer & West Coast Swing Dancer, internationally renowned choreographer

C

D

E

  • Amera Eid, Australian belly dancer and owner of an Australian belly dance school, Amera's Palace. Eid opened Amera's Palace belly dance boutique in 1987, which included one of the first belly dance schools in Sydney.
  • Fanny Elssler (23 June 1810 – 27 November 1884), Austrian dancer
  • Makhmud Esambayev (15 July 1924 – 7 January 2000), Soviet Chechen actor and dancer
  • Norberto Esbrez (1966–2014), Argentinian tango dancer, choreographer, and teacher of tango nuevo. He is known as El Pulpo or octopus for his fluid and intricate leg moves.

F

  • choreographer, teacher and innovator who is best known for creating a jazz exercise
    technique.
  • Lusi Faiva, known for physically integrated dance (New Zealand)
  • Antonio Fini (born March 26, 1983), Italian dancer, choreographer, educator and producer
  • step dancer
    from the south side of the country
  • breakdance
    crew, founded in 1993.
  • Cristina Wistari Formaggia (August 27, 1945 – July 19, 2008), key participant in the preservation and dissemination of Balinese dance
  • Bob Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987), dancer, actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and most notably a groundbreaking jazz/musical theatre choreographer. He won eight tony awards for choreography. His unique and famous style has been imitated and recreated over and over again throughout the world.
  • Michel Fokine (April 23, 1880 – August 22, 1942), groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer. Fokine staged more than 70 ballets in Europe and the United States.
  • Evan-Burrows Fontaine, American interpretive dancer and Ziegfeld Follies performer
  • Dame Margot Fonteyn (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), widely regarded as England's greatest ballerina, stage partner and friend of Rudolf Nureyev for many years.
  • William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949), American dancer and choreographer resident in Dresden in Saxony. He is known internationally for his work with the Frankfurt Ballet and his reorientation of classical ballet
    .
  • Joe Frisco (November 4, 1889 – February 12, 1958), American vaudeville performer who first made his name on stage as a jazz dancer, but later incorporated his stuttering voice to his act and became a popular comedian. Frisco was a mainstay on the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his Broadway debut in the Florenz Ziegfeld Follies in 1918.
  • Argentine Tango
    dancers. He is best known for his improvisation skills, and is regarded as one of the founders of Tango nuevo. He usually dances in this open style but is at ease when dancing close. He performed among others with Gotan Project, Tanghetto and Narcotango.
  • Loie Fuller (January 15, 1862 – January 1, 1928), pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.

G

  • Antonio Gades (November 14, 1936 – July 20, 2004), Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer. He helped to popularize the art form on the international stage.
  • Samia Gamal (1924 – December 1, 1994), Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. In 1949, Egypt's King Farouk proclaimed Samia Gamal "The National Dancer of Egypt", which brought US attention to the dancer.
  • Paul Gerdt
    (near St. Peterburg, Russia, 22 November 1844 – Vamaloki, Finland, 12 August 1917), was the Premier Danseur Noble of the Imperial Ballet, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, and the Mariinsky Theatre for 56 years, making his debut in 1860, and retiring in 1916.
  • Gus Giordano (1923 – March 9, 2008), American jazz dancer
  • Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973), American actor, tap dancer, and choreographer
  • Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991), American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
  • Geeta Kapoor
    indian dancer, choreographer and reality show judge

H

  • hip-hop dancer
    , most popular during the late 1980s to mid-1990s
  • Erick Hawkins (April 23, 1909 – November 23, 1994), American dancer and choreographer
  • Sir Robert Helpmann (9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986), Australian dancer, actor, theatre director, and choreographer. Co-director of the Australian Ballet during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Tatsumi Hijikata (March 9, 1928 – January 21, 1986), Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh.
  • Gregory Oliver Hines
    (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003), American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer
  • B-Boy
  • Lester Horton (January 23, 1906 – November 2, 1953), American dancer, choreographer, and teacher
  • Ausdruckstanz
    tradition."
  • Finola Hughes (born 29 October 1959), English dancer and actress, most noted for her appearance in the 1983 film Staying Alive
  • Doris Batcheller Humphrey
    (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958), dancer of the early 20th century

J

  • Janet Jackson (born May 16, 1966), American singer and entertainer.
  • Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), American musician and entertainer, often cited by various media outlets as the "World's Best Dancer".
  • Robert Joffrey (1930–1988), American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets.
  • So You Think You Can Dance
    . She has the distinction of being the first female and person of African-American descent to win the title.
  • hip-hop clowns". Johnson and his followers have performed at birthday parties ranging from inner city communities to celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson
    , and Cedric the Entertainer.
  • Tamsier Joof (born May 17, 1973), British dancer and choreographer trained in classical ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, African and voguing. Tamsier is one of the early London voguers.[5]
    He is of a Senegalese and Gambian descent.
  • Raghav Juyal – Indian dancer, choreographer, actor, television presenter (born 1991)

K

L

  • Rudolf Laban
    (December 15, 1879 – July 1, 1958), notable, central European dance artist and theorist, whose work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, and other more specific developments.
  • Eddie Ladd, award-winning Welsh contemporary dancer, known for her controversial themes and presentation style.
  • Walter Laird (26 July 1920 – 30 May 2002), Dancesport World Champion in Professional Latin. He is the author of the Technique of Latin American Dancing, and coached many dancer champions including Allan Tornsberg, Vibeke Toft, Espen Salberg, Jukka Haapalainen and Sirpa Suutari.
  • break dancing
    crew that formed in 1997. With their win in the 2005 Battle of the Year, they have been recognized as a worldwide known name and a contributor to the Korean wave, their fans respectively calling them the 'Dancing Taeguk Warriors.
  • So You Think You Can Dance
    .
  • Nikolai Legat (1869–1937), dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet from 1888 to 1914 and was the main successor to the roles of the great ballet dancer, Pavel Gerdt.
  • Lawrence Leritz (born September 26, 1962), American dancer and choreographer.
  • identical twin brothers Larry and Laurent Bourgeois
    (born December 6, 1988).
  • Sonia Destri Lie (Brazil) Sonia Destri Lie, often known simply as Sonia Destri, Brazilian dancer and choreographer. In 2005, she formed Companhia Urbana de Dança, a hip hop group, which has achieved increasing international recognition.
  • Māris Liepa (27 July 1936, Riga – 26 March 1989, Moscow), Latvian ballet dancer.
  • Lil' C (born Christopher A. Toler in January 1983), American dancer and choreographer. He has choreographed for So You Think You Can Dance, along with many top music icons.
  • José Limón (1908–1972), pioneering modern dancer and choreographer. He was born in Culiacán Mexico and the eldest of 12 children. He moved to New York City in 1928 where he studied under Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most famous dance is The Moor's Pavane (1949), based on Shakespeare's Othello.
  • Chloe Lukasiak
    (born May 25, 2001), American actress, dancer, author, model and reality TV star most known for starring on the reality show, Dance Moms.
  • Jennifer Lopez (born July 24, 1969), often referred to as J. Lo, is an American actress, singer and dancer. Jennifer Lopez is known for her upbeat pop songs and Latin-pop influenced dancing abilities.
  • La Argentina (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), Argentine-born Spanish dancer.

M

  • Madonna (born August 16, 1958), American recording artist, actress and dancer. Her controversially successful career has made her one of the best selling artists of all time and one of the world's most influential dancers.
  • Bollywood
    .
  • Natalia Makarova (born November 21, 1940), Soviet-Russian prima ballerina. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "Her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation." She has also won awards as an actress and continues to stage classical ballets throughout the world.
  • Frankie Manning (1914–2009), American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop.
  • István Martin, Franco-Hungarian ballet dancer
  • exotic dancer
    and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage during World War I. Many books have been written about Mata Hari, some of them serious historical and biographical accounts, and many of them highly speculative.
  • flamenco dance
    .
  • Adriana Miller ("The Legendary Adriana") American helped in the renaissance of Middle Eastern dance in Washington, D.C.
  • Ann Miller (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004), American dancer, singer and actress
  • swing dancer
    known as The Queen of Swing.
  • swing dancer
    who ever lived.
  • Baisali Mohanty, Indian classical dancer and choreographer of Indian dancing style Odissi. Widely regarded as one of the most promising dancer of her generation, Baisali has been performing along with her own dance company "Baisali Mohanty & Troupe" for over a decade in major International and national festivals.
  • ballroom dancing
    , a dancer, dance teacher and author of classical ballroom dancing books. His Ballroom Dancing is considered to be the "Bible" of International-style ballroom dancing.
  • So You Think You Can Dance
    . Mary Murphy is a former U.S. champion ballroom dancer and TV personality. She was born in Lancaster, Ohio, the only daughter in an Irish family of four children. She graduated from Northwest High School in Canal Fulton, Ohio.
  • Mukti Mohan Indian dancer and actress, she is the winner of Zara Nachke Dikha 2.

N

  • RRR
    .
  • Aira Naginevičiūtė, international dance artist, producer and composer.
  • Nellie Navette (1865–1936), British dancer, singer and comedienne of the late 19th and early 20th-centuries who performed in music hall, variety and pantomime..
  • The Nicholas Brothers, African-American team of dancing brothers, Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006) and Harold Nicholas (1921–2000). With their highly acrobatic technique, high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day.
  • Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972), Polish and Russian ballet dancer.
  • Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky
    (March 12, 1889 – April 8, 1950), Polish ballet dancer and choreographer. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary.
  • Maris Liepa, Vaslav Nijinsky, Alexander Godunov and Mikhail Baryshnikov
    .

O

  • Universal Studios musicals throughout the 1940s. Several years later, he appeared with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in the 1952 film classic Singin' in the Rain
    .
  • Ann-Margret Olsson, Swedish-American woman who is famous for dancing, acting and singing in many American motion pictures, including Viva Las Vegas.
  • Simona Orinska (born August 18, 1978), only butoh artist in Latvia and a multidisciplinary artist: contemporary dancer, poet, director and choreographer of many art projects. She is also a Dance Therapy or Dance Movement Therapy practitioner.
  • Cristian Oviedo (born November 19, 1979), professional dancer, dance instructor, and choreographer.

P

  • Prabu Deva, Indian dancer, actor, director and choreographer
  • Punit J Pathak, Indian dancer, choreographer and reality show judge

R

  • RRR
    (2022).
  • Dame Marie Rambert (20 February 1888 – 12 June 1982), Polish-Jewish dancer and dance pedagogue who exerted a great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher.
  • Wade Robson (born September 17, 1982), Australian dancer, choreographer, producer and songwriter.
  • Pierre Rameau (1674–1748), French dancing master to Elisabetta Farnese, and the author of two books that now provide us with valuable information about Baroque dance.
  • Ram Pothineni, is an Indian actor who works in Telugu cinema. He is known for his quick versatile dance moves.
  • Bill Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949), also known as Bojangles, pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer.
  • Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), American dancer, actress, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for dancing in 10 feature films with Fred Astaire.
  • Brynn Rumfallo (July 1, 2003), American dancer, model and actress who rose to fame on America's Got Talent and Dance Moms.
  • Mister Big, What's Cookin'?
    , and Patrick the Great, their last film together.
  • Hrithik Roshan (born 10 January 1974), Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He has portrayed a variety of characters and is known for his dancing skills
  • Remo D'Souza, Indian choreographer, dancer, director and reality show judge
  • Raghav Juyal (born 10 July 1991), Indian dancer, choreographer, actor, television presenter

S

  • Jon Chu, and their dance group ACDC or Adam/Chu Dance Crew, had challenged pop star Miley Cyrus
    to a highly publicized dance battle.
  • Ruth St. Denis (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968), early modern dance pioneer
  • So You Think You Can Dance
    .
  • Uday Shankar (December 8, 1900 – September 26, 1977), the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer
  • Lloyd Shaw (1890–1958), also known as Dr. Lloyd "Pappy" Shaw, was an educator, and is generally credited with bringing about the broad revival of square dancing in America.
  • Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis
    .
  • Jimmy Slyde (1927–2008), known as the King of Slides, world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz. Slyde's profile in the United States revived noticeably in the 1980s.
  • "Shorty" George Snowden, African American dancer in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. He is popularly credited with coining the name "Lindy Hop" for a popular partner swing dance of the day.
  • Britney Spears (born December 2, 1981), American singer and dancer. Apart from being famous for her hit singles "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!...I Did It Again", she is known internationally for her unique outfits and her entertaining and freestyle dancing.
  • John William Sublett (February 19, 1902 – May 18, 1986), known by his stage name John W. Bubbles, was an American vaudeville performer, singer and entertainer. Sublett is known as the father of "rhythm tap", a form of tap dance.
  • swing dance
    instructor, judge and choreographer. In particular, she is considered by most to be the leading authority on the dance Balboa.
  • Shantanu Maheshwari (born March 7, 1991), Indian actor, dancer, and choreographer
  • Shakti Mohan, contemporary dancer, choreographer and reality show judge from India. She is winner of dance India dance season 2.
  • Shahid Kapoor, actor and dancer from India
  • Super Junior, Korean multi-talented boy band under the company SM Entertainment. They performed Twins for their debut in 2005.
  • Sema Yildiz is a Turkish Belly dancer, Romani dancer, Dance teacher and actress who is known as the first dancer to perform in the Ottoman era Topkapi palace. She has been referred to as "One of Turkey's senior oriental dancers" and is also known for her expertise in Romani dance.

T

  • Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884), famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance
  • Layla Taj, Egyptian belly dancer whose dances communicate aspects of Egyptian traditions and culture
  • Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941), leading American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy and Tony awards, and currently works as a choreographer in New York City.
  • Lisa Joann Thompson (born April 22, 1969), American dancer and choreographer, best known for starring as a Fly Girl on the In Living Color television show.
  • Danny Tidwell (born August 1, 1984), American contemporary and ballet dancer and choreographer, best known for being the runner-up on Fox's third season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2007.
  • Alphonse Tierou (born 17 April 1946), French dancer, choreographer, and scholar of dance
  • Eddie Torres (born July 3, 1950), famed salsa dance
    instructor
  • Antony Tudor (4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987), born William Cook, influential 20th-century English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer
  • Terence Lewis, Indian dancer, choreographer and reality show judge

U

V

W

  • Karin Waehner (1926–1999), German-born French modern dancer and choreographer
  • John Weaver (July 21, 1673 – September 24, 1760), English dancer and choreographer and is commonly known as the father of English pantomime.
  • Charles Weidman (1901 Lincoln, Nebraska – 1975), American modern dancer, choreographer and teacher
  • Elliana Walmsley (born June 23, 2007), American dancer, actress and model who is most known for starring on the reality show, Dance Moms
  • Mary Wigman (1886–1973), German dancer, choreographer, and instructor of dance. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance, and pioneer of modern dance in Germany
  • G. Hepburn Wilson (1875–?), proponent of jazz dancing
  • Katja Wulff (1890–1992), German-Swiss expressionist dancer and dance instructor
  • Leni Wylliams (1961–1996), African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher

Y

Z

  • Mackenzie Ziegler (born June 4, 2004), American dancer, singer, author, and actress who is most known for her role on the reality show, Dance Moms.
  • Maddie Ziegler (born September 30, 2002), American dancer, actress and model who is most known for her role on the reality show, Dance Moms, as well as the main dancer in the music videos for Australian singer-songwriter Sia.
  • Lahcen Zinoun (born 1944), Moroccan choreographer, dancer and filmmaker; considered the greatest contemporary Moroccan choreographer.

See also

References

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  2. ^ Whittenburg, Zachary (16 December 2010). "The dancing men of 2010". Time Out. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Minkus – "Don Quixote" – Ballet ~ Misty Copeland – 15 – 1997 – VOB". YouTube. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  4. ^ Cooper, Michael (June 30, 2015). "Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2015.; and Feeley, Sheila Anne (July 1, 2015). "Historic 1st for ballet company". A.M. New York. p. 3. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  5. ^ The Face Magazine, July, 1991, p. 10
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