Famous Choreographers — Page 7: Lives & Works

Avery Brooks

American actor and director

Phulwa Khamkar

Indian dancer and choreographer

Alan Johnson

American choreographer and film director (1937–2018)

Justin McCarthy

Dancer and choreographer

Klara Semb

Norwegian folklorist, choreographer and folk dance educator (1884-1970)

Eleo Pomare

American choreographer

Sonny Kiss

American professional wrestler, dancer, choreographer, and professional wrestling manager

David Earle

Canadian choreographer, dancer and artistic director; co-founder and co-artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre

Mercedes Ellington

American dancer, choreographer, art director, and educator

Louise Potiki Bryant

New Zealand choreographer, dancer, director and video artist

Raphaëlle Boitel

French circus performer, contortionist, acrobat, actress, theatre director, and choreographer

Kelley Abbey

Australian actress and singer

Adrienne Truscott

American Stand-up comedian

Vicente Martín y Soler

Spanish composer (1754–1806)

Melanie LaPatin

American dancer

Meenakshi Chitharanjan

Indian classical dancer, teacher and choreographer

Hippolyte Monplaisir

French dancer (1821–1877)

Dag Vågsås

Norwegian actor

Vinii Revlon

French dancer, choreographer, and producer specializing in voguing

Nathaniel Shaw

American actor, dancer, and direector

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Ukrainian-American Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor

Gusmiati Suid

Indonesian choreographer

Buddy Bradley

American dancer and choreographer

Vaslav Nijinsky

Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

Jatin Goswami

Indian dancer and choreographer

Brion Gysin

British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist (1916-1986)

Richard Wherlock

British dancer and choreographer (born 1958)

Sardono Waluyo Kusumo

Indonesian choreographer, dancer, film director and actor (born 1945)

Andy Blankenbuehler

Broadway dancer and choreographer

William Forsythe

American actor

David Vaughan

British-American dance historian and critic (1924-2017)

Sampath Kumar D.Y.

Indian dancer

Antonio Sacco

Italian stage actor

Barbara Dilley

American dancer and choreographer (born 1938)

Yuri Khanon

pianist and composer

Shobha Naidu

Indian dancer

Javier de Frutos

Venezuelan dancer

Louis Mérante

ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (Paris Opera)

Justin Peck

American choreographer

Gab Sorère

French visual artist and choreographer

Luther Brown

Canadian dancer

Monty Oum

American animator

Lise Noblet

ballet dancer (1801–1852)

Alice Sheppard

British dancer and choreographer

Violette Verdy

ballerina and ballet teacher (1933-2016)

Shanthi

Indian choreographer and actress

Muriel Miguel

indigenous theatre artist in what is known as the U.S.

Marco Da Silva

Portuguese dancer

Deirdre Tarrant

Dance teacher, choreographer

LaVaughn Robinson

American dancer

Carina Ari

Swedish dancer, choreographer and sculptor (1897–1970)

Deborah Hay

American choreographer (born 1941)

Ann Veronica Janssens

British artist (born 1956)

Jean-Baptiste Hus

French dancer and ballet master

Gul Bardhan

Indian choreographer

Charles Weidman

American choreographer (1901–1975)

Adolphe Blaise

French actor, conductor, choreographer and composer (-1772)

Ananda Shankar Jayant

Indian dancer, choreographer and dance scholar

Kazuo Ohno

Japanese dancer and choreographer (1906-2010)

Rhodessa Jones

American actress, teacher, director, writer, and founder of the Medea Project

Giovanni Gallo

Sharna Burgess

Australian dancer

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Ukrainian-American dancer

Bill T. Jones

American artist and dancer (born 1952)

Gillian Lynne

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

Sue Samuels

American dancer

Anne Woolliams

British choreographer and artistic director

Miriam Mahdaviani

ballet choreographer, dancer and répétiteur

Vakhtang Chabukiani

Georgian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1910–1992)

Pali Chandra

Indian choreographer, dance educator and artistic director (born 1967)

Somizi Mhlongo

South African actor, dancer/choreographer, television and radio personality

Martin Kippenberger

German artist (1953–1997)

Zhang Jigang

Chinese choreographer

Helen Tamiris

American choreographer (1905-1966)

Litza Bixler

British film choreographer

Antoine Pitrot

French ballet dancer and choreographer

Elna Jørgen-Jensen

Danish actress (1890-1969)

Robert North

American choreographer

Joseph Martin Kraus

German composer (1756-1792)

Kherington Payne

American dance musician and actress

Michael Bennett

American choreographer (1943-1987)

Neal Kenyon

American choreographer and theatre director

Shantanu Maheshwari

Indian actor, dancer and choreographer

Lau Kar-leung

Hong Kong Chinese martial arts film director and actor (1936-2013)

Dai Ailian

ballerina (1916-2006)

Ninette de Valois

British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet

Gerd Kjølaas

Norwegian choreographer and dancer

Zorica Jevremović

Serbian theatre and video director (1948–2023)

Marzi Pestonji

Indian choreographer

Sharon Savoy

American dancer

Jenna Johnson

American professional dancer

Antony Hamilton

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

René Highway

Canadian actor (1954–1990)

Dana Tai Soon Burgess

choreographer, dance artist, cultural figure

Mamata Shankar

Indian actress

Stephen Baynes

Australian ballet dancer

Sitara Devi

Indian dancer (1920-2014)

Vera Shvetsova

Russian ballerina

Travis Wall

American choreographer

Michel François Hoguet

French Ballet dancer and choreographer (1793-1871)

luciana achugar

Uruguayan-American choreographer

Lea Anderson

choreographer

Elsie Augustave

Haitian-American author

Ekaterina Maximova

Russian ballet dancer (1939-2009)

Jacques Heim

French choreographer

Only Won

rapper

Oti Mabuse

South African professional Latin American and ballroom dancer

Greta Mendez

trinidad-born dancer and choreographer (born 1954)

Nicolas-Médard Audinot

French actor (1732-1801)

Jean-Claude Trial

composer (1732-1771)

Sang Jijia

ethnic Tibetan Chinese choreographer

Vivi Flindt

ballet dancer

Nyaniso Dzedze

South African actor and singer

Alarmel Valli

Indian dancer

Bella Lewitzky

modern dance dancer and choreographer (1916–2004)

Sheema Kermani

Pakistan Kathak Bharatantyem Dancer

Brian Carbee

Australian screenwriter

Suzanne Perrottet

Swiss expressionist dancer and musician (1889-1983)

Ann Reinking

American dancer, choreographer and actress (1949-2020)

DJ Arafat

Ivorian musician, singer and record producer (1986-2019)