Famous Choreographers — Page 10: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable choreographers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Marge Champion
American dancer and actress (1919–2020)
Alexander Godunov
Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor (1949-1995)
Walter Bobbie
American theatre director and choreographer
Taiaroa Royal
New Zealand dancer, artistic director and choreographer
Pierre Beauchamp
French ballet choreographer, dancer and composer
Aloysius Valente
Norwegian dancer
Jeraldyne Blunden
American choreographer (1940-1999)
Sadhana Bose
Indian actress
Ivan Clustine
ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1862–1941)
Oskar Schlemmer
German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)
Tatjana Gsovsky
dancer, teacher and choreographer (1901–1993)
Cleo Parker Robinson
American dancer and choreographer (born 1948)
Janette Manrara
dancer
Julia Levien
American dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer
Angiolo Vestris
France-Italian ballet dancer
Konstanze Vernon
German choreographer (1939-2013)
Nick Navarro
Mexican-American dancer and choreographer (b.1938)
Jon Berle
Norwegian actor, choreographer and dancer (1932-2010)
Athina Vahla
artist, teacher
Pappu Samrat
Pakistani choreographer
Olena Shoptenko
Ukrainian choreographer
Pál Frenák
Marilyn Wood
American choreographer and writer (1929-2016)
Renaldo Benson
American musician (1936–2005)
AJ Pritchard
British ballroom dancer
Ina Boyle
Irish composer
Stacey Tookey
American cheerleader, choreographer and dancer
Candy Lane
New Zealand choreographer, dancer and television presenter
Edna Deane
British ballroom dancer, choreographer, author, and school cofounder (1905-1995)
Sally Gross
American choreographer and dancer (1933–2015)
Vladimir Djouloukhadze
Georgian ballet master dancer, teacher, and choreographer
Jerron Herman
interdisciplinary dancer, choreographer, and researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0754-8517)
Krzysztof Pastor
Polish dancer choreographer and ballet director
Mariemma
Spanish dancer
Askold Makarov
Russian ballet dancer (1925-2000)
Kaja Hanevold
figure skater
Nicola Guerra
Italian choreographer (1865-1942)
Carmen Tórtola Valencia
Spanish dancer (1882–1955)
Kany
French-Senegalese dancer (born 1986)
Igor Belsky
Russian ballet dancer (1925-1999)
Amanda Schull
American actress, professional ballet dancer
Mélanie Demers
choreographer and performing artist in Canada
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
American playwright and actress
John Neumeier
ballet dancer, choreographer and director
Maina Gielgud
British ballet dancer
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer (1905–1986)
Polly Bennett
British movement director and choreographer
Armand Silvestre
French poet and conteur (1837-1901)
Fayard Nicholas
Choreographer, dancer, actor (1914–2006)
Dan Karaty
Dancer and choreographer
Andrew Turner
lacrosse player
Denise Faye
American actor and dancer
Kilian O'Callaghan
Irish ballet dancer and choreographer, Royal Ballet School-trained, former Principal with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and education administrator
Paul Pellicoro
dancer
Germaine Ingram
American choreographer and lawyer
Russell Kerr
New Zealand choreographer (1930-2022)
René Blum
French theatre impresario (1878–1942)
Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani
Italian dancer
Sylvia Lewis
American actress
C.K.Balagopalan
Indian classical dancer, choreographer and teacher (1939-2019), known for his contributions to Bharatanatyam and Kathakali
Ruthanna Boris
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1919-2007)
Ian Eastwood
U.S. dance artist
Len Goodman
British professional ballroom dancer
Rika Burnham
American museum educator
Chandralekha
Indian dancer and choreographer (1928–2006)
Nakul Dev Mahajan
American dancer and choreographer
Rudi van Dantzig
Dutch dancer and choreographer (1933–2012)
Edouard Borovansky
Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director
Santee Smith
Kahnyen’kehàka (Mohawk) multidisciplinary artist, dancer and choreographer
Vusa Mkhaya
Zimbabwean singer
Britt Bendixen
Danish choreographer TV dancing judge and dance instructor (1942-2023)
Isadora Duncana
American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
Percival Borde
Afro-Caribbean dancer and choreographer (1922-1979)
Marie-Thérèse Walter
cohabitant of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
Flick Colby
American dancer, choreographer (1946-2011)
Nadezhda Kalinina
Russian choreographer
Sharon Lowen
American dancer
Valeria Archimó
Argentine theatre dancer, choreographer & vedette
Seki Sano
Japanese actor, left-wing activist (1905-1966)
Rachel Browne
Canadian dancer (1934-2012)
Ernst Uthoff
German-born Chilean ballet dancer, and choreographer (1904-1993)
Albertine Morin-Labrecque
Canadian composer (1886–1957)
Remo D'Souza
Indian choreographer, actor and film director
Choi Seung-yoon
South Korean actress and dancer
Enikő Somorjai
Hungarian dancer
An Seong-hee
North Korean dancer (born 1932)
Kathryn Bennetts
Australian choreographer
Sergei Diaghilev
Russian art critic and impresario (1872–1929)
Francisco Miralles Arnau
Robert Thompson
American dancer and choreographer (1933–1984)
Neon
US belly dance and stiletto dance instructor
Leah Bergstein
Israeli choreographer
Edward Verso
American dancer and choreographer
Hassan Ouakrim
moroccan-born American dancer, choreographer and art collector (died 2025)
Alexandre Benois
Russian artist (1870–1960)
Kathryn Posin
American choreographer
Peter Chu
American dancer
Judith Jamison
American dancer and choreographer (1943–2024)
Carole Johnson
African American dancer and choreographer
Alexander Ekman
Swedish dancer and choreographer
Iliko Sukhishvili
Georgian dancer (1907-1985)
Kelli Finglass
American cheerleader
Claude Brumachon
French choreographer
Daisy Shah
Indian film actress
Deborah Colker
Theater director, writer, choreographer, dancer
Arlene Phillips
British choreographer
Nia Love
American dancer and choreographer
Edith Roger
Norwegian dancer and choreographer (1922–2023)
Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
Iranian dancer
Tim Federle
American actor
Max Pollak
Austrian percussionist, choreographer and dancer (born 1970)
K. V. Satyanarayana
Kuchipudi dancer, dance teacher
Daniil Simkin
Russian ballet dancer
Genrikh Mayorov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1936–2022)
Vladyslav Yama
Ukrainian dancer
Mary Wigman
German dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor (1886–1973)
Israel Galván
Spanish dancer
Shila Mehta
dancer
General Hershy Bar
satirical character
Polly Cuninghame
Dutch ballerina