Famous Choreographers — Page 2: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable choreographers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Tom Pazik
American choreographer (1940–1993)
Liz Gerring
American choreographer
Raghunath Manet
Indian classical musician and dancer
Françoise Prévost
French ballet dancer (1680-1741)
Travis Payne
American dancer
Scarlett Mackmin
British actress
Jessica Iwanson
Swedish choreographer
Simone Orlando
Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
Ulysses Dove
American dancer and choreographer (1947-1996)
Daniel Nagrin
American dancer and choreographer (1917-2008)
Pilar López Júlvez
Spanish choreographer and dancer (1912-2008)
Bob Fosse
American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)
Amir Hosseinpour
opera director and choreographer
Sophie Maslow
American dancer (1911–2006)
Marja Merisalo
Finnish choreographer
Tero Saarinen
Finnish dancer and choreographer
Isaac de Benserade
French writer (1613–1691)
Shobana
Indian actress
Maria Ley-Piscator
Austrian dancer (1898–1999)
Charles Walters
American film director and choreographer (1911-1982)
Eva Blažíčková
Czech dancer and writer
Angel Corella
Spanish ballet dancer (born 1975)
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
André Gingras
Canadian ballet dancer
Tim Rushton
British dancer
Antoine Houdar de La Motte
French author (1672–1731)
Ernst Lert
Austrian composer, writer and director (1883–1955)
David Roussève
American choreographer, writer, director, and performer
August Bournonville
Danish ballet master and choreographer (1805–1879)
Sophie Calle
French artist (born 1953)
James Starbuck
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1912-1997)
Idrissa Camara
UK-based dancer and choreographer originating from Guinea
Reynaldo Hahn
Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
Alibaba Abdullayev
Azerbaijani folklore dancer, teacher, and choreographer
Dania Krupska
American dancer and choreographer
Stijn Celis
choreographer, set designer
Lee Grant
New Zealand actress and singer
David Brimmer
American actor
Dasari Narayana Rao
Indian director, actor, politician (1942–2017)
Constanza Hool
Mexican actor and dancer
Will Rawls
American dancer
Germaul Barnes
American dancer
Larissa FastHorse
playwright and choreographer
Lynda Gaudreau
Canadian choreographer and artistic director
Kevin Stea
American dancer, choreographer, actor
Penney de Jager
Dutch choreographer
Peggy Spencer
British dancer and choreographer (1920-2016)
Auguste Vestris
French dancer (1760-1842)
Chen Shi-Zheng
American theatre director
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
Debbie Allen
American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer (born 1950)
Irmgard Bartenieff
American physical therapist and dance therapist (1900-1981)
Brendan Fernandes
Kenyan-Indian-Canadian dancer and visual artist (born 1979)
Martine van Hamel
Dutch choreographer, teacher, and former principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre and the National Ballet of Canada
Alan Lund
Canadian dancer (1925–1992)
Philippe Decouflé
Theatre director, dancer, choreographer, writer
Tony Jaa
Thai stunt actor
Carolee Schneemann
American visual experimental artist (1939–2019)
Martine Époque
Canadian choreographer (1942–2018)
Kriota Willberg
American cartoonist and choreographer
Keith Terry
musical artist
Mansi Aggarwal
Indian choreographer
Ola Skanks
Canadian dance artist, choreographer, and teacher
Peter Boneham
American choreographer, dance educator and artistic director
José Limón
Mexican dancer and choreographer (1908–1972)
Anna Halprin
American dancer (1920–2021)
Christopher Calvin Harrison
American choreographer
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)
Neila Sathyalingam
Classical Indian dancer, choreographer and instructor (1938-2017)
James Harvey D'Egville
British dancer and choreographer
Gayathri Govind
dancer
Neil Greenberg
American choreographer
Lee Taemin
South Korean singer, model, dancer and actor
Mukarram Turgunbaeva
Soviet ballet dancer, ballet master and actor (1913-1978)
Dora Stratou
Greek dancer (1903-1988)
Shiamak Davar
Indian choreographer
Gaetano Saracco
Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
Pasha Kovalev
Russian dancer
David Gordon
American choreographer (1936–2022)
Jonathan Burrows
British choreographer
Portia Mansfield
American dance educator and choreographer
Vladimir Stepanov
Russian ballet dancer
Mademoiselle Ambroisine
French actress and ballet dancer (1811-1882)
Jüri Nael
Estonian choreographer and actor (born 1975)
Derek Hough
American dancer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
Karel Shook
American ballet teacher and company director (1920-1985)
Dimitris Papaioannou
Greek choreographer and visual artist (born 1964)
Kathryn Doby
American actress and dancer
Morleigh Steinberg
American choreographer and dancer, wife of The Edge
Pirmin Treku
basque-born ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1930–2006)
Vicente Nebrada
Venezuelan choreographer and ballet dancer (1930–2002)
Rostislav Zakharov
ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, ballet and opera director (1907–1984)
Viviane Macedo
Brazilian dancer
Prabhu Deva
Indian choreographer, film producer & actor
Ame Henderson
Canadian choreographer
Matthew Bourne
British ballet and dance choreographer
Rain
South Korean singer and actor
Donald McKayle
American dancer (1930–2018)
Alan Weeks
American actor
Rudolf Laban
Austrian choreographer (1879-1958)
Maya Deren
Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker (1917–1961)
Mary Overlie
American choreographer
Karen Jamieson
Canadian dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher
Willam Christensen
American ballet dancer (1902-2001)
Victoria Marks
Choreographer and professor
Daniel François Esprit Auber
French composer (1782-1871)
Zohra Sehgal
Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)
Mikhail Mordkin
Russian-American ballet dancer (1880–1944)
Marguerite Derricks
choreographer
Kenneth MacMillan
British ballet dancer and choreographer (1929–1992)
Anouk van Dijk
Dutch dancer and choreographer
Kamal Haasan
Indian actor, activist and joker (born 1954 )
Shen Wei
Chinese-born American choreographer, visual artist and director (born 1968)
Chet Walker
American basketball player (1940–2024)
Iro Tembeck
Canadian dancer
Ferdinand Hérold
French composer (1791–1833)
Giovanni Gallini
Italian dancer, choreographer and impresario
Vera Volkova
Russian ballet dancer (1904-1975)
Guru Bipin Singh
choreographer (1918–2000)