Famous Choreographers — Page 9: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable choreographers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Okwui Okpokwasili
Nigerian-American artist (born 1972)
Christopher Bannerman
choreographer
Ivan Valberkh
Russian choreographer, ballet master and ballet dancer (1766-1819)
Michael J. Bobbitt
American dramatist
Mathilde Monnier
French choreographer
Cheryl Burke
American dancer
Isabel Bayón
Spanish Flamenco dancer
Abby Lee Miller
American dance instructor and choreographer (born 1965)
Kangol Kid
Haitian-American hip hop producer, songwriter, break dancer, and emcee
Lynn Seymour
Canadian-born ballet dancer (1939–2023)
Carlo Blasis
Italian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher (1797–1878)
Galina Ulanova
Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998)
Jessica Wallenfels
American choreographer and actor
LeRoy Prinz
American film director and choreographer (1895-1983)
Alicia Alonso
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (1920-2019)
Jacques Lecoq
French drama teacher (1921-1999)
Aira Naginevičiūtė
Lithuanian dance artist, producer and composer
Dawn Kramer
American artistic director (born 1945)
Donna McKechnie
American dancer, actress and singer
Sharon Kinney
American dancer
Pearl Primus
American dancer and choreographer (1919-1994)
Douglas Scott
American choreographer
Lila York
American dancer and choreographer
Muna Tseng
Chinese-American dancer
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
American dancer
Mercedes Quintana
Argentine artist
Meghna Venkat
Indian Bharatanatyam dancer
Janet Novás
Spanish actress
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer and choreographer
Choi Seung-hee
Korean dancer and actress (1911-1969)
Lachhu Maharaj
Indian dancer and choreographer
Panna Rittikrai
Thai actor and director (1961–2014)
Viveca Vázquez
Puerto Rican dance choreographer and professor
Mark Samuels
choreographer, dancer
Dmitry Chaplin
Ballroom dancer and Reality TV contestant
Kettly Noël
Haitian dancer, choreographer and actress
Bogle
Jamaican dancehall star and choreographer (1964–2005)
Pascal Touzeau
French choreographer
Vasyl Avramenko
Ukrainian dancer (1895–1981)
Pina Bausch
German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director (1940–2009)
Nima Kiann
Iranian choreographer
Colin Self
American artist, composer, and choreographer
Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin
Russian ballet dancer (1907-1970)
Kayoko Kumono
former Takarazuka Girls' Revue Company
Carrie Ann Inaba
American television personality, dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer
Cynthia Harvey
American ballet dancer
Gabriel Valenciano
Filipino actor-singer
Mika X
New Zealand performing artist and director
Kum Uma Sharma
Indian dancer
Swapna Sundari
Indian dancer
Frank Gatson, Jr.
American choreographer/director
Maggie Gripenberg
Finnish ballet dancer (1881-1976)
Terence Lewis
Indian choreographer
Willie Warde
English actor-dancer (1857–1943)
Boris Knyazev
choreographer
Robert Alton
American dancer and choreographer
Kenichi Ebina
Japanese dancer
Paul Becker
Canadian actor and choreographer
Grete Wiesenthal
Austrian ballerina (1885–1970)
Troy Powell
American dancer, choreographer, educator, and director
Raju Sundaram
Indian actor
John Playford
London bookseller and publisher (1623-1686)
Candis Cayne
American actress and performance artist
Kate Bornstein
American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Vitthal Patil
Indian dancer, choreographer
John Moran
American composer
Sabrina Matthews
Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
Noémie Lafrance
choreographer
Nina Winthrop
American choreographer
Bada Lee
South Korean choreographer and dancer
Eddie Torres
Salsa instructor
Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau
Nigerian dancer (born 1980)
D'Arcy Drollinger
American actor, writer, musician, director, producer & choreographer
Peter Martins
Danish danseur and choreographer
Jarmila Kröschlová
Czech choreographer, dancer and university educator (1893-1983)
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Filipino dancer (1917–2005)
Doris Humphrey
American dancer and choreographer (1895–1958)
Lucas Hoving
Dutch dancer (1912-2000)
Rocío Molina tiruri
Spanish choreographer
Eliot Feld
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Dwight Rhoden
American choreographer
Jeanine Claes
French artist, dancer, choreographer and teacher
Ulyana Lopatkina
Russian ballet dancer
Ted Shawn
American dancer (1891–1972)
Baudouin Oosterlynck
Belgian sound artist, visual artist and choreographer (born 1946)
Lar Lubovitch
American choreographer, founder of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Toby Sedgwick
British theatre director, actor
Vera Zorina
Norwegian ballerina (1917-2003)
Lincoln Kirstein
American writer (1907–1996)
Jonathan Meese
German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist
Leland Palmer
American actress, dancer and singer (b. 1945)
Mayuri Upadhya
Indian choreographer, dancer (born 1979)
Lindsay Arnold
American professional Latin and ballroom dancer
Hi-Hat
American choreographer
Stephen Page
Australian dancer
Robyn Orlin
South African dancer
Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
Mumtaz Ali
Indian dancer, actor
Vijay Raghav Rao
Indian musician, dancer and writer (1925–2011)
Yui Sakakibara
Japanese choreographer, dancer, singer, songwriter, and voice actress
Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula
Filipina choreographer (1929-1999)
Jacques Aubert
French composer and violinist
Mary Fulkerson
American dance teacher and choreographer
Helba Huara
Peruvian dancer and choreographer (1905–1986)
Morten Rudå
Norwegian actor
Kym Johnson
Australian ballroom dancer and TV performer
Anbariv
Indian twin choreographers
Efva Lilja
Swedish choreographer
Jenny Mézile
Jenny Mézile
Peter Randazzo
American dancer and choreographer (born 1943)
Sonya Tayeh
American choreographer
Beryl McBurnie
Trinidad and Tobago dancer
Vladimir Zakharov
Russian choreographer (1946–2013)
Anita Ratnam
Indian dancer and choreographer (1954-)
Allen Yu
Taiwanese dancer and choreographer
Grethe Barrett Holby
American producer, stage director, choreographer and dramaturge
Matthew Prescott
ballet dancer
Marina Mazepa
Ukrainian actress
Ilse Meudtner
German diver (1912–1990)
Leyla Shikhlinskaya
Azerbaijani actress