Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 9: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Alice Renavand
French ballet dancer
David Lichine
ballet dancer and choreographer (1910-1972)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Belgian choreographer
Melanie Person
American dancer and choreographer (born 1965)
Gary Burne
Rhodesian ballet master and choreographer
Louise Stichel
French dancer and ballet master
Ryan Martin
American ballet dancer
Luz del Fuego
feminist, naturist, ballerina, striptease artist (1917–1967)
Anastasia Novitskaya
Russian ballet dancer
Euphrosyne Löf
Swedish actor and ballerina
Suki Schorer
American ballet dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and writer
Miguel Terekhov
ballet dancer
Olga Pericet
Spanish flamenco and contemporary dancer
Anna-Marie Holmes
canadian-born ballet dancer, educator and choreographer
Waldeen Falkenstein
Mexican ballet dancer and choreographer (1913-1993)
Eleanor D'Antuono
American ballet dancer (born 1939)
Barbara Fallis
American dancer (1924-1980)
Francesca Hayward
English ballerina
Louise Rasmussen
Danish ballet dancer and actress; morganatic spouse of King Frederick VII of Denmark (1815-1874)
Viper
American pornographic actress (1959-2010)
Roma Egan
ballet dancer
Fanny Cerrito
Italian ballet dancer (1817–1909)
Julie Kent
ballet dancer
Makhmud Esambayev
Soviet actor and dancer
Alexander Grant
New Zealand ballet dancer (1925-2011)
Ekaterina Vazem
Russian prima ballerina (1848–1937)
Valery Lantratov
Russian ballet dancer
Yuri Soloviev
Soviet ballet dancer (1940-1977)
Sussan Deyhim
Iranian musician
Alexander Kølpin
Danish actor and ballet dancer
Vsevolod Nemolyaev
Russian ballet dancer (1937–2025)
Elizabeth Anderton
British ballet dancer
Joseph Caley
English ballet dancer
William Bracewell
Welsh dancer
Suzanne Douvillier
Ballerina, mime & choreographer (1778-1826)
Amanda McKerrow
American ballet dancer
Lucía Mazer
Argentine dancer
Renato Zanella
Italian ballet dancer, choreographer, and director
Tracy Inman
American dancer and educator
Zoltan Solymosi
(1967--) ballet dancer
Sophie Martin
French ballerina
Monica Mason
South African ballet dancer
Anatol Joukowsky
Russian ballet dancer
John Field
British ballet dancer and choreographer (1921-1991)
Elaine Kudo
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Xue Jinghua
Chinese ballerina
Silas Farley
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Tilly Losch
Ballerina, dancer, actress (1903-1975)
Hanne Wandtke
German university teacher
Katita Waldo
Spanish ballet dancer and ballet master
Karen KB Brown
American ballerina, educator, répétiteur, ballet mistress and director
Johaar Mosaval
South African ballet dancer
Heather Parisi
American-born dancer, singer, and television personality based in Italy
Alla Dzhalilova
Russian ballerina (1908-1992)
Howard Donald
British singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, DJ and producer (born 1968)
Nuria Pomares
dancer
Chan-hon Goh
Canadian ballet dancer
Evgeniy Svetlitsa
Ukrainian ballet dancer
Olga Spessivtseva
Russian ballet dancer (1895–1991)
Louise Lightfoot
Australian dancer and choreographer (1902–1979)
Odaray Prats Molina
Cuban ballet dancer
Carla Körbes
Brazilian ballet dancer
Dariia Nyzhankivska-Snihurovych
ballet dancer (b. 1915, d. 1980)
Virginia Johnson
American ballet dancer, choreographer, and journalist
Hannah Neeleman
American social media personality and businesswoman
Sophie Hagman
Swedish ballerina
Olga Lomonosova
Russian actress
Olga Kifyak
Ukrainian ballet dancer
La Argentinita
Spanish dancer and singer (1898–1945)
Alessandra Ferri
Ballet Dancer
Susan Hendl
American ballet dancer and master
Xenia Borovansky
Russian ballet teacher (1903-1985)
Alexandra Danilova
American ballet dancer (1903–1997)
Ib Andersen
Danish dancer and painter
Ohad Naharin
dancer and choreographer from Israel
Bella Bordy
(1909-1978) ballet dancer, actress
Gerd Larsen
Norwegian-born British ballerina
Isabel Mirrow Brown
ballerina
Paul Frame
American ballet dancer and chiropractor
Tamara Khanum
Uzbek dancer of Armenian heritage (1906-1991)
Akane Takada
Japanese ballet dancer (1990-)
Moira Shearer
British ballerina and actress (1926–2006)
Miyako Yoshida
Japanese ballet dancer and ballet instructor (1965-)
Misa Kuranaga
ballet dancer
Olga Sławska-Lipczyńska
Polish ballet dancer and choreographer (1915-1991)
Dinna Bjørn
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
Madina Aliyeva
Azerbaijani ballerina
Tina Pereira
trinidadian-Canadian ballet dancer and designer
Vanessa Hooper
British ballet dancer
Nora Kovach
Hungarian ballet dancer (1931–2009)
Guillermo Keys-Arenas
Australian ballet dancer and choreographer (1928–2006)
Ulla Poulsen Skou
Danish actress (1905–2001)
Maria Ikonina
Russian ballet dancer (1788-1838)
Léon Espinosa
Dutch ballet dancer (1825-1903)
Viacheslav Samodurov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1974)
Alina Frasa
Finnish ballet dancer
Vadym Pysarev
Dancer and choreographer
Jovani Furlan
Brazilian ballet dancer
Paul Taylor
American choreographer
María Ruanova
Argentine prima ballerina (1912–1976)
Rebecca Krohn
American ballet dancer
Heléne Alexopoulos
American ballet dancer
Stoner Winslett
founding Artistic Director of the Richmond Ballet
Greta Hodgkinson
American-Canadian ballet dancer
Zora Šemberová
Czech dancer, educator and choreographer
Kyle Allen
American actor
Lesley Collier
British ballet dancer
Vladimír Klos
German ballet dancer
Élisabeth Soligny
Swedish ballet dancer
Korn Khunatipapisiri
Thai actor, model and dancer
Ekaterina Teleshova
Russian ballet dancer (1805-1857)
Emma Palladino
Italian ballet dancer
Leanne Benjamin
Australian ballet dancer
Isabelle Ciaravola
French ballet dancer
Vera de Bosset
American ballet dancer (1889-1982)
Jean Dauberval
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Kateryna Kukhar
Ukrainian ballet dancer
Ilir Shaqiri
Albanian ballet dancer and choreographer
Bessie Clayton
American dancer
Sarah Hay
American film actor and actor