Famous British Choreographers: 117 Biographies

Rose English

British actor and film director (born 1950)

Margot Fonteyn

British ballerina

David Nixon

British choreographer

Russell Maliphant

British contemporary dance choreographer

Robert Arditti

British actor, singer and dancer

Benjamin Britten

English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)

Mari Bicknell

British ballet dancer and choreographer

Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer (1872-1958)

Herbert Mason

British film director and producer (1891–1960)

Irving Davies

Welsh dancer and choreographer

Peggy Spencer

British dancer and choreographer (1920-2016)

Jonathan Burrows

British choreographer

Matthew Bourne

British ballet and dance choreographer

Kenneth MacMillan

British ballet dancer and choreographer (1929–1992)

Irek Mukhamedov

Soviet dancer, ballet teacher and pedagog

Liz Aggiss

British live artist, dance performer, choreographer and film maker

Michael Pink

British choreographer, director, dancer, and theatre producer

Frederick Ashton

British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)

Melly Still

British director, designer and choreographer

Christopher Hampson

British ballet dancer and choreographer

Arthur Bliss

English composer and conductor (1891–1975)

Paul Harris

English choreographer

Sarah Michelson

British choreographer and dancer (born 1964)

Shobana Jeyasingh

Indian-born British choreographer

Ronald Hynd

British choreographer

Deryk Mendel

British actor (1920-2013)

Ashley Page

British former ballet dancer

Kevin Clifton

British dancer

Jason Piper

British actor

Bob Anderson

British actor and fencer (1922-2012)

Karen Bruce

British choreographer

Lindsay Kemp

British mime (1938-2018)

Ashley Banjo

British dancer and choreographer, known for dance troupe Diversity

Darcey Bussell

British ballerina

Steve McNicholas

director, composer

Siobhan Davies

British dancer

James Jordan

English ballroom dancer and choreographer

Adam Cooper

British ballet dancer

Alicia Markova

British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)

Phyllida Crowley Smith

British dancer, actress, and choreographer

Richard Wherlock

British dancer and choreographer (born 1958)

Alice Sheppard

British dancer and choreographer

Gillian Lynne

British ballet dancer, actress, choreographer and director (1926-2018)

Anne Woolliams

British choreographer and artistic director

Antony Hamilton

English-Australian actor, model, and dancer (1952-1995)

Anton du Beke

British television presenter; dancer

Jay Aston

British actress and singer; member of Bucks Fizz

Peter Darling

British dancer

Chris Piper

dancer

David Bower

British actor

Ivor Forbes Guest

British historian (1920–2018)

Willie Warde

English actor-dancer (1857–1943)

Toby Sedgwick

British theatre director, actor

AJ Pritchard

British ballroom dancer

Edna Deane

British ballroom dancer, choreographer, author, and school cofounder (1905-1995)

Maina Gielgud

British ballet dancer

Len Goodman

British professional ballroom dancer

Arlene Phillips

British choreographer

Liam Scarlett

British choreographer (1986-2021)

Nigel Lythgoe

Executive producer and television director

Karen Kresge

British choreographer

Ailsa Berk

British actress

Rosie Kay

British choreographer

Paul James Rooney

English choreographer and dancer

Colin Dunne

traditional Irish and contemporary dancer

Etta Murfitt

British dancer and choreographer

Lydia Sokolova

British dancer (1896–1974)

Joy Newton

ballet dancer 1913—1996

Louie Spence

English dancer and television personality

Alan Carter

British ballet dancer

Cathy Marston

British choreographer

Peter Wright

British ballet teacher, choreographer, director and former professional dancer

Arnold Cooke

British composer (1906–2005)

Rosemary Lee

English director, choreographer and performer

Richard Arnell

English composer (1917–2009)

Ben Stevenson

British ballet dancer

Mary Skeaping

British ballet dancer

Marjorie Lynette Sigley

English artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer

Peter Racine Fricker

English composer (1920–1990)

Leighton Lucas

British composer (1903-1982)

Irene Rose Mawer

(1893-1962) mime teacher

Margaret Morris

British ballet dancer (1891–1980)

Luke Cresswell

British dance percussionist

Celeste Dandeker

Dancer and founder of Candoco dance company

Cyril Scott

English composer, writer, and poet (1879–1970)

Richard Alston

British choreographer

Eleanor Fazan

Kenyan-born British choreographer and actress

Douglas Lee

British choreographer

Suzy Miller

English model and dancer

Helen Lewis

British dancer (1916–2009)

John Field

British ballet dancer and choreographer (1921-1991)

Sisco Gomez

British dancer

Aaron Sillis

British dancer and choreographer

Gill Clarke

Dave Brown

British comedian, designer and photographer

Ernest Maxin

British television director and presenter

Warren Carlyle

British theatre director and choreographer

Antony Tudor

British dancer and choreographer (1908–1987)

Adrian Paul

British actor (born 1959)

David Dawson

British choreographer

Tino Sehgal

German artist (born 1976)

Nicola McLean

model

Claire Cunningham

British choreographer and dancer

Jean-Carlos Garcia

footballer

Anthony Dowell

British ballet dancer

William Hobbs

British choreographer (1939–2018)

Stephen Preston

British musician

Dougie Squires

British choreographer (1932–2023)

Akram Khan

British dancer and choreographer

David Bintley

British ballet dancer and choreographer

Wayne McGregor

British choreographer

Royston Maldoom

British choreographer

Philip Chatfield

artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet

Will Tuckett

English director and choreographer

Julian Lloyd Webber

British solo cellist and conductor

Dorothée Munyaneza

British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer

Francesca Jaynes

British Choreographer