Famous Choreographers — Page 8: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable choreographers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Gerd Neggo
Estonian music educator, choreographer and dancer (1891-1974)
Witney Carson
American actress and dancer
John Carrafa
American choreographer
Anton du Beke
British television presenter; dancer
Yuen Cheung-yan
Hong Kong actor and film director
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Robin Shou
Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist and stuntman
Annie-B Parson
American choreographer
Yang Liping
Chinese dancer
Ramon Obusan
Filipino artist (1938–2006)
François Colin de Blamont
French composer
Victoria Santa Cruz
Peruvian composer (1922–2014)
Talley Beatty
American dancer (1918–1995)
Vladimir Vasiliev
Soviet dancer
Colette Brosset
French actress (1922-2007)
Ana Kamien
Argentine choreographer
Anna Lærkesen
Danish soloist at the Royal Danish Ballet
Laurent Hilaire
French ballet dancer
Savitha Sastry
Indian dancer
Maximilian Steinberg
Russian composer (1883-1946)
Mona Vangsaae
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (1920-1983)
Guillermina Bravo
Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (1920-2013)
Roy Campbell-Moore
British dancer
Rorion Gracie
Brazilian martial artist
Kelucharan Mohapatra
Indian dancer (1926–2004)
Parker Esse
American choreographer
Jodie Gates
ballet dancer
Uma Rama Rao
dancer and choreographer (1938–2016)
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky
composer, conductor (music), pianist, music teacher
Toni Lander
Danish ballerina (1931–1985)
Shotei Ibata
Japanese calligrapher
Jay Aston
British actress and singer; member of Bucks Fizz
Peter Darling
British dancer
Bertram Ross
American dancer and choreographer (1920-2003)
Katya Jones
dancer
Ana Bárbara
Mexican singer
Lin Mei-hong
Taiwanese choreographer
Anne Imhof
German contemporary artist (born 1978)
Longinus Fernandes
Indian dancer and choreographer
Tamara Karsavina
Russian ballet dancer
Puti Kaisar-Mihara
martial artist
Sushmita Banerjee
Indian dancer
Laurieann Gibson
Canadian choreographer
Noa Eshkol
Israeli dancer, artist and music educator (1924-2007)
Auti Angel
actress
Eva Von Gencsy
Margalit Oved
American-Israeli dancer and choreographer
Cristina Caprioli
Swedish choreographer
Colette Marchand
French dancer and actress (1925-2015)
Jeff Whiting
American theatre director
Pierre Droulers
choreographer, dancer
Robert Weiss
American ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director of Carolina Ballet
Katrine Engberg
Danish actress and novelist
Damian Woetzel
American dancer
Bello Sisqo
musical artist
Paul Ladmirault
French composer (1877–1944)
Carmencita Romero
American dancer, choreographer, and actor (1914-2001)
Joshua Bergasse
American choreographer and dancer
Natanael Berg
Swedish composer (1879-1957)
Marie Taglioni
Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)
Marina Zueva
figure skating coach, choreographer
Helju Mikkel
Estonian folk dancer and choreographer (1925-2017)
Asadata Dafora
Sierra Leonean multidisciplinary musician (1890–1965)
Hanan Hameen
Sandy Master
Indian actor and choreographer (born 1986)
I Radhika Master
Indian film Choreographer
Sergio Trujillo
Colombian dancer
Miriam Adams
Canadian dancer, choreographer and archivist
Chris Piper
dancer
Vasyl Verkhovynets
Ukrainian dancer and choreographer (1880–1938)
Otis Sallid
American choreographer, director, and dancer
Noelle Rose Andressen
ballet dancer, and choreographer
Robert Wilson
American stage director and playwright (1941–2025)
Justin Tornow
American modern dancer and choreographer
William Forsythe
American choreographer (born 1949)
Shannon Holtzapffel
Australian actor
Tamsier Joof
Senegalese model and actor
David Bower
British actor
Jean-Louis Morin
Canadican choreographer (1953–1995)
Viengsay Valdés
Cuban ballerina
Erdem Gündüz
Turkish dancer (born 1979)
Hedwig Gorski
American poet and performance artist
Lois Bewley
American dancer and choreographer (1934–2012)
Dilip Rayamajhi
Nepalese actor, producer and choreographer
Amanda Celine Miller
American voice actress
Sol Picó
Spanish dancer and choreographer (born 1967)
Lydia Lopokova
Russian ballet dancer (1892–1981)
Juan Carlos Copes
Argentine tango dancer, choreographer, and performer (1931–2021)
Elizabeth Swados
American composer (1951-2016)
Claude Balon
French dancer
Tami Stronach
American choreographer
Tamara Geva
Soviet-American actress and dancer (1906–1997)
Luis Salgado
Puerto Rican actor
Sigurd Harald Lund
Swedish choreographer (1823–1906)
Loyce Houlton
American dancer and choreographer
Marie-Madeleine Guimard
French ballerina (1743-1816)
Lev Ivanov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, creator of a "Swan Lake" (1834–1901)
Steve Barton
American actor/singer (1954-2001)
François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif
French writer (1687–1770)
Craig Revel Horwood
British and Australian choreographer
Emilio de' Cavalieri
Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer
Kelli Erdmann
American social media personality
Eugenia Popescu-Județ
Romanian musicologist, choreographer and ethnomusicologist (1925-2011)
Pola Nireńska
Polish dancer and choreographer (1910-1992)
P. L. Raj
Indian choreographer (1934–2002)
Shane McNamara
Australian actor, children’s entertainment comedian, singer, tap dancer and choreographer
Oscar Poigny
French choreographer
Antonia Franceschi
American actor and choreographer
Surupa Sen
Indian Odissi dancer
Signe Hofgaard
Jean-Léon Destiné
Haitian-born American dancer and choreographer
Mythili Prakash
Bharatanatyam Dancer, Choreographer
Munna Shukla
Indian choreographer
Radu Poklitaru
Ukrainian ballet dancer, choreographer, and director
John Clifford
American choreographer
François de Chancy
French composer
Frances Taylor Davis
American dancer and actress (1929-2018)
Natalie Burn
American actress, film producer, screenwriter, dancer and singer
Ivor Forbes Guest
British historian (1920–2018)
Benji Schwimmer
American dancer and choreographer