Famous Dancers — Page 10: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Carmen Amaya
Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
Mohombi
Congolese-Swedish musician, singer, composer and dancer
Sigurd Harald Lund
Swedish choreographer (1823–1906)
Antonio Cansino
Flamenco dancer (1865–1954)
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)
Shannon Funchess
American musician
Marie Tsoni
Greek actress and singer (1987–2017)
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)
Konstantin Raikin
Soviet and Russian actor and theater director
Pepita de Oliva
Spanish dancer (1830-1871)
Pola Nireńska
Polish dancer and choreographer (1910-1992)
Pauline Lawrence
American designer and musician in modern dance (1900-1971)
Dylan Riley Synder
American actor
Momoko Hirata
Japanese ballet dancer (1985-)
Irene Emery
American textile anthropologist, museum curator, scholar, art historian (1900–1981)
Cindy Walker
American songwriter, country music singer and dancer (1918–2006)
Surupa Sen
Indian Odissi dancer
Signe Hofgaard
Sergey Glushko
Russian film actor (born 1970)
Lydia Thompson
British burlesque performer
Laurie Babin
performing artist in Canada
Katharine Wildish
American ballerina
Anila Sunder
Indian classical dancer
Natalie Burn
American actress, film producer, screenwriter, dancer and singer
Benji Schwimmer
American dancer and choreographer
Kay Mazzo
American ballet dancer and educator
Johnny Hooker
Brazilian singer, songwriter, screenwriter and film director
Keiynan Lonsdale
Australian actor
Shwe Man Tin Maung
Burmese dancer
Ivan Valberkh
Russian choreographer, ballet master and ballet dancer (1766-1819)
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Indian classical dancer and playback singer
Cheryl Burke
American dancer
Albert Torres
salsa promoter
Nirupama
Indian Kathak duo
Isabel Bayón
Spanish Flamenco dancer
Abby Lee Miller
American dance instructor and choreographer (born 1965)
Amie Sultan
Egyptian dancer
Linh Nga
American-Vietnamese film director, film producer, actress, screenwriter and news anchor
Evaldas Sodeika
Lithuanian dancer
Lynn Seymour
Canadian-born ballet dancer (1939–2023)
Van Le Ngoc
Vietnamese ballet dancer
Eddie Rector
American tap dancer
Wu Xuan Yi
Chinese singer and actress
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
Mexican-American educator, dancer
Natalia Gordienko
Moldovan singer
Alicia Alonso
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (1920-2019)
Joan Jay
dancer
Michelle Dorrance
American tap dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and director
Chano Pozo
Cuban musician (1915-1948)
Aira Naginevičiūtė
Lithuanian dance artist, producer and composer
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo
French dancer
Pearl Primus
American dancer and choreographer (1919-1994)
Hilda Dehil
Acting name Hilda Dehil born Hilda Bobasso
Pierre Dulaine
Palestinian Dance Instructor
Malia Ann Kawailanamalie Petersen
Hula dancer
Aslı Sümen
Turkish actor, dancer and fashion model (born 1994)
Lila York
American dancer and choreographer
Muna Tseng
Chinese-American dancer
Pushpa Bhuyan
Indian classical dancer
Kalamandalam Girija
Indian Kutiyattam dancer
Meghna Venkat
Indian Bharatanatyam dancer
Mathilde Kschessinska
Russian ballet dancer and princess
Kathryn McCormick
American contemporary dancer and actress
Jonelle Allen
American actress, singer, and dancer
Farrah Franklin
American R&B singer
Janet Novás
Spanish actress
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer and choreographer
Viveca Vázquez
Puerto Rican dance choreographer and professor
Mark Samuels
choreographer, dancer
Finola Hughes
British actress (born 1959)
Sheena Belarmino
Filipino singer and dancer (born 2005)
Tsurugi
Kokoro Kohatsu
Japanese singer and member of PSYCHIC FEVER from EXILE TRIBE
Ren Watanabe
musical artist
Ryoga Nakanishi
musical artist
Anh Vo
Vietnamese-American dancer
Thamela Mpumlwana
Canadian film actor, actor and dub actor
Pina Bausch
German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director (1940–2009)
Nima Kiann
Iranian choreographer
Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin
Russian ballet dancer (1907-1970)
Carrie Ann Inaba
American television personality, dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer
Cynthia Harvey
American ballet dancer
Nathalie Baye
French actress (1948–2026)
Bailey May
Filipino-British singer, actor and model
Bené Arnold
ballet dancer, educator
Rapeepong Supatineekitdecha
Thai singer and actor
Mitzi Gaynor
American actress (1931–2024)
Maggie Gripenberg
Finnish ballet dancer (1881-1976)
Franziska Romana Koch
German opera singer
Tarzzan
South Korean singer, model, rapper, and dancer
Dolores
artists' model
Malu Trevejo
Cuban-American dancer and singer-songwriter
Geetanjali Sharma
Indian Folk exponent and a Kathak dancer.
Yuya Matsushita
Japanese singer and actor
Boris Knyazev
choreographer
Robert Alton
American dancer and choreographer
Shūka Fujii
Japanese actress
Haydée Palacios Vivas
Nicaraguan dancer (1945–2024)
Tommy Tihoni
French Polynesian model
Nia Sioux
American actress, singer, dancer and model
Shobha Deepak Singh
Indian cultural impresario
Elmer "Scooter" Lowry
American actor
Elvira Santamaría
Paul Killick
British dancer
Isabel Clifton
English actress (born 2002)
Clara Tabody
Hungarian actor and singer (1915–1986)
Iza
Brazilian singer-songwriter and dancer
Jasmine Guy
American actress (born 1962)
Bada Lee
South Korean choreographer and dancer
Eddie Torres
Salsa instructor
Peter Martins
Danish danseur and choreographer
Khiara Bridges
American anthropologist and legal academic
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)