Famous Ballet Masters — Page 2: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet masters, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Natalia Kasatkina
Russian ballerina (1934–2024)
Pierre Gardel
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1758-1840)
Leon Wójcikowski
Polish dancer (1899-1975)
Augusta Maywood
American ballerina
Alan Carter
British ballet dancer
Peter Wright
British ballet teacher, choreographer, director and former professional dancer
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
German actor, explorer, mineralogist (1761-1833)
Rosita Mauri
Catalan dancer and ballet teacher
Lorca Massine
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Aleksandr Shiryaev
dancer (Mariinsky and Ballets Russes), pioneer of film and animation
Nino Ramishvili
Georgian ballet dancer and ballet master (1910-2000)
Dore Hoyer
German expressionist dancer (1911-1967)
Igor Moiseyev
Soviet dancer (1906–2007)
Gabriel Möhlich
German composer
Olga Dubeneckienė
Lithuanian artist (1891-1967)
Ludmila Semenyaka
Soviet and Russian ballerina
Jean-Marie Leclair
French Baroque violinist and composer
Aleksey Yermolayev
Russian ballet dancer (1910–1975)
Khumar Zulfugarova
Azerbaijani dancer and choreographer
Helmi Puur
Estonian ballet dancer and ballet master (1933-2014)
Agrippina Vaganova
Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)
Jules Perrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1810–1892)
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy
count, Russian artist (1783-1873)
Antonio Gades
Spanish dancer (1936-2004)
Tina LeBlanc
American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master
George Reich
American dancer, actor and choreographer
Antoine Bournonville
French actor and ballet dancer
Sarkis Djanbazian
Armenian artist (1914-1963)
Natalia Makarova
Soviet and American ballet dancer
Vladimir Curbet
Moldovan choreographer (1930-2017)
Doris Laine
Finnish ballet dancer (1931–2018)
Luigi Manzotti
Italian choreographer (1835–1905)
Aage Thordal-Christensen
Danish dancer and choreographer
Tamilla Shiraliyeva
Azerbaijani-Soviet ballet dancer and ballet master
Alberto Alonso
Cuban dancer and choreographer (1917-2007)
Galiya Izmaylova
Soviet and Uzbekistani ballet dancer and ballet master (1923-2010)
Pavlo Virsky
Ukrainian choreographer (1905-1975)
Roza Jalilova
Azerbaijani dancer (1929–2025)
Kurt Jooss
German dancer, choreographer and influential art dance educator (1901-1979)
Vladimir Malakhov
Ukrainian ballet dancer
Maurice Béjart
French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)
Yvonne Georgi
German ballet dancer (1903–1975)
Guli Razzakovna Khamrayeva
Uzbek ballerina
David Lichine
ballet dancer and choreographer (1910-1972)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Belgian choreographer
Bernhard Wosien
German dancer and music educator (1908-1986)
Makhmud Esambayev
Soviet actor and dancer
Dana Demkiv
Ukrainian ballet master (born 1932)
Claude Newman
British ballet dancer
Katita Waldo
Spanish ballet dancer and ballet master
Fernando Alonso
Cuban ballet dancer (1914–2013)
Boris Moiseev
Russian dancer, choreographer, singer, and actor
Susan Hendl
American ballet dancer and master
Ib Andersen
Danish dancer and painter
Tamara Khanum
Uzbek dancer of Armenian heritage (1906-1991)
Madina Aliyeva
Azerbaijani ballerina
Viacheslav Samodurov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1974)
Paul Taylor
American choreographer
María Ruanova
Argentine prima ballerina (1912–1976)
Rebecca Krohn
American ballet dancer
Jean Dauberval
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Çimnaz Babayeva
Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet master (1946-2019)
Kasian Goleyzovsky
ballet dancer and choreographer (1892–1970)
Leonid Lavrovsky
ballet dancer and choreographer at Mariinsky & Bolshoi (1905–1967)
Leon Danielian
American ballet dancer (1920–1997)
Jonathan Stafford
American ballet dancer and artistic director (born 1980)
Leonid Yakobson
Russian choreographer (1904-1975)
Antony Tudor
British dancer and choreographer (1908–1987)
Yuriko Kajiya
Japanese ballet dancer (1984-)
Louis-Guillaume Pécour
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Gasparo Angiolini
ballet dancer, composer, choreographer
Isahar Akilov
soviet artist, dancer, ballet master and choreographer
Margaretha von Bahr
Finnish ballet dancer and ballet master (1921–2016)
Heinz Spoerli
Swiss ballet dancer, choreographer, and company director (born 1940)
Tankho Israelov
Soviet ballet dancer and ballet master (1917-1981)
Maqsud Mammadov
Azerbaijani ballet dancer
Kunduz Mirkarimova
Uzbekistani ballet dancer and ballet master (1925–2019)
Alexander Plisetski
Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1931-1985)
Jean Coralli
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1779-1854)
Rafiga Akhundova
Soviet ballet dancer, ballet master and actor (1931–2024)
Irina Kolpakova
Russian ballet dancer
Natalia Dudinskaya
Russian ballet dancer (1912–2003)
Sara Levi-Tanai
Israeli choreographer and song writer (1911–2005)
Fyodor Lopukhov
ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer
Katti Lanner
Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer (1829–1908)
Lydia Kyasht
Russian-British ballet dancer and teacher
Natalia Trukhanova
French ballet dancer of Ukrainian origin (1885–1956)
Kjersti Alveberg
Norwegian dancer (1948–2021)
Arthur Saint-Léon
French ballet dancer (1821–1870)
Andris Liepa
Russian ballet dancer
Alla Shelest
Russian ballet dancer (1919–1998)
Irina Hudovа
Finnish ballet dancer (1926–2015)
Sulamith Messerer
Russian ballerina and choreographer (1908–2004)
Margarete Wallmann
Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer
Vincenzo Galeotti
Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet master (1733 – 1813)
Erkin Mademilova
Kyrgyz ballet dancer (1929–2018)
Marie Sallé
French ballet dancer
Nikolai Yavorsky
Cuban choreographer and ballet teacher of Russian origin
Roland Petit
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1924–2011)
Boris Sichkin
American actor (1922-2002)
Nacho Duato
Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
George Skibine
ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1920–1981)
Anders Selinder
Swedish ballet dancer (1806–1874)
Pierre Lacotte
French choreographer (1932-2023)