Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 5: Lives & Works

Alfreda Thorogood

ballet dancer 1942—

Bené Arnold

ballet dancer, educator

Maggie Gripenberg

Finnish ballet dancer (1881-1976)

Jacopo Tissi

Italian dancer

Franziska Romana Koch

German opera singer

Boris Knyazev

choreographer

Melinda Ottrubay

Hungarian ballet dancer (1920–2014)

Grete Wiesenthal

Austrian ballerina (1885–1970)

Troy Powell

American dancer, choreographer, educator, and director

Joanna Priest

choreographer

Marion Tait

British ballet mistress and dancer

Ana Cardus

ballet master

Elvira Santamaría

Monica Loughman

Irish ballet dancer

Sabrina Matthews

Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer

Elisha Willis

ballet dancer

Peter Martins

Danish danseur and choreographer

Colin Jones

English ballet dancer-turned-photographer

Khiara Bridges

American anthropologist and legal academic

Maria Kuznetsova

singer and dancer (1880–1966)

Raven Wilkinson

first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company

Eliot Feld

American ballet dancer and choreographer

Alexandra Waterbury

American ballet dancer and model

Ulyana Lopatkina

Russian ballet dancer

Ted Shawn

American dancer (1891–1972)

Marta García

ballet dancer

Vera Zorina

Norwegian ballerina (1917-2003)

Maria Francisca Bia

Dutch actress (1809-1889)

Yosvani Ramos

ballet dancer

Martha Graham

American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)

Caroline Müller

Danish and later Swedish singer, dancer and actor (1755-1826)

Joan Lawson

English ballet dancer and writer

Silvina Fabars

Cuban dancer

Lana Condor

Vietnamese-American actress

Lucia Joyce

Irish ballet dancer (1907-1982)

Mary-Ellen Moylan

American ballet dancer 1925–2020

Allen Yu

Taiwanese dancer and choreographer

Asta Mollerup

Danish modern dancer and educator

Boris Fenster

Soviet ballet dancer and ballet master (1916-1960)

Ivan Allen

ballet dancer (1930-2012)

Pisith Pilika

Cambodian ballet dancer and actress (1965–1999)

Momo Yeung

actress

Pamela May

British ballerina (1917–2005)

Alexander Godunov

Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor (1949-1995)

Sofia Golovkina

Russian ballet dancer and educator (1915–2004)

Danielle Baptiste

comics character

Pierre Beauchamp

French ballet choreographer, dancer and composer

Ivan Clustine

ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1862–1941)

Margrethe Schanne

Danish ballet dancer

Tatjana Gsovsky

dancer, teacher and choreographer (1901–1993)

Ashley Shaw

Australian ballet dancer

Irène Skorik

French ballet dancer, composer and actress

Konstanze Vernon

German choreographer (1939-2013)

Therrell C. Smith

American ballet dancer (1917–2025)

Conrad Ludlow

American ballet dancer

Maria Kochetkova

Russian ballet dancer

Olga Sandberg

Swedish ballerina

Amy Watson

ballet dancer, artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet

Vladimir Djouloukhadze

Georgian ballet master dancer, teacher, and choreographer

Miranda Esmonde-White

Canadian fitness trainer

Krzysztof Pastor

Polish dancer choreographer and ballet director

Askold Makarov

Russian ballet dancer (1925-2000)

Stephen Heathcote

Australian ballet dancer

Carmen Tórtola Valencia

Spanish dancer (1882–1955)

Ana Lupez

Argentine actress, dancer, choreographer, businesswoman (born 1944)

Igor Belsky

Russian ballet dancer (1925-1999)

Amanda Schull

American actress, professional ballet dancer

John Neumeier

ballet dancer, choreographer and director

Lorena Feijóo

Cuban ballet dancer

Josefa Butteau

stage actor and ballet dancer

Belinda Bauer

actress

Lucy Speed

British actress

Maina Gielgud

British ballet dancer

Tamara Tchinarova

French and Australian ballet dancer (1919–2017)

Serge Lifar

Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer (1905–1986)

Margot Werner

Austrian ballet dancer, singer and actor (1937–2012)

Julian Hosking

British ballet dancer

Kilian O'Callaghan

Irish ballet dancer and choreographer, Royal Ballet School-trained, former Principal with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and education administrator

Andrew Crawford

Australian ballet dancer

Russell Kerr

New Zealand choreographer (1930-2022)

Yvonne Mounsey

dancer

Ruthanna Boris

American ballet dancer and choreographer (1919-2007)

Boris Skibine

Russian ballet dancer

Eugénie Fiocre

French ballet dancer (1845–1908)

Rudi van Dantzig

Dutch dancer and choreographer (1933–2012)

Yonah Acosta

Cuban actor and dancer

Lisa Rinehart

former dancer with American Ballet Theatre

Yvette Espinosa

British ballet dancer

Edouard Borovansky

Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director

Elena Poliakova

ballet dancer 1884—1972

Jayna Ledford

American ballerina

Ernst Uthoff

German-born Chilean ballet dancer, and choreographer (1904-1993)

Miroslava Pešíková

Czech dancer

Louise Fitzjames

19th-century French ballerina

Vladimir Yaroshenko

Polish-Russian ballet dancer

Deborah Bull

dancer, writer and broadcaster

Enikő Somorjai

Hungarian dancer

Kathryn Bennetts

Australian choreographer

Anne Borg

Norwegian dancer and professor

Tamaz Vashakidze

Georgian ballet choreographer

Artem Datsyshyn

Ukrainian ballet dancer

Jane Burn

British ballerina

Graham Usher

ballet dancer

Iliko Sukhishvili

Georgian dancer (1907-1985)

Henriette Hansen

Norwegian actor, dancer and singer (1814–1892)

Eline Heger

Danish actress

Aaron S. Watkin

Canadian ballet dancer and director

Margrethe Schall

Danish ballerina (1775-1852)

Rex Harrington

Canadian ballet dancer

Edith Roger

Norwegian dancer and choreographer (1922–2023)

Genrikh Mayorov

Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1936–2022)

Tanaquil Le Clercq

French-American ballerina

Polly Cuninghame

Dutch ballerina

Julian MacKay

American ballet dancer

Ksenia Solo

Latvian-Canadian actress

Ellen Kjellberg

Norwegian ballet dancer

Amanda Forsberg

Swedish ballet dancer

Géraldine Rojas

Argentine tango dancer

Elvera Sanchez

American dancer (1905–2000)

Liam Scarlett

British choreographer (1986-2021)