List of dance personalities

This is a work-in-progress partial list of people involved in dance.

Alphabetical

A

Eleonora Abbagnato - Italian ballet dancer
Stella Abrera - Filipino-American ballet dancer
Carlos Acosta - Cuban ballet dancer and artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Precious Adams - American ballet dancer
Carolina Agüero - Argentine ballet dancer
Joo Won Ahn - South Korean ballet dancer
Alvin Ailey - modern choreographer
Heléne Alexopoulos - American ballet dancer
Alicia Alonso - Cuban prima ballerina assoluta
Alicia Amatriain - Spanish ballet dancer
Dores André - Spanish ballet dancer
Elena Andreianova - considered the outstanding Russian ballerina of the romantic genre
Gasparo Angiolini - Italian ballet dancer, choreographer and theoretician
Ann-Margret (no surname) - Swedish-American dancer, actress, and singer in films; Viva Las Vegas
Aesha Ash - American ballet dancer
Merrill Ashley - American ballet dancer
Frederick Ashton - British ballet dancer and choreographer
Charles Askegard - American ballet dancer
Adele Astaire - American Broadway dancer and singer; Fred Astaire's dance partner, 1905–1931
Fred Astaire - American film and Broadway dancer, choreographer, singer and actor
Gary Avis - British ballet dancer
Silvia Azzoni - Italian ballet dancer

B

Elisa Badenes - Spanish ballet dancer
George Balanchine - choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
Caroline Baldwin (born 1990) - American ballet dancer
Matthew Ball - British ballet dancer
Ashley Banjo - choreographer and leader of Diversity (dance troupe)
Marie Barch (1744–1827) - first native Danish ballerina
Aszure Barton - Canadian choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov - Russian ballet dancer
Léonore Baulac - French ballet dancer
Vytautas Beliajus - Lithuanian-American, considered the father of international folk dance
Jérémie Bélingard - French ballet dancer
Aran Bell - American ballet dancer
Leanne Benjamin - Australian ballet dancer
Hanna Berger - German-Austrian dancer and resistance fighter
Hannelore Bey - German ballet dancer
Joan Boada - Cuban ballet dancer
Gertrud Bodenwieser - Austrian dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of modern dance
Roberto Bolle - Italian ballet dancer
Antoine Bournonville - French ballet dancer
August Bournonville - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
Julie Bournonville - ballet dancer
Julio Bocca - Argentine ballet dancer
Roberto Bolle - Italian ballet dancer
Federico Bonelli - Italian ballet dancer
Hélène Bouchet - French ballet dancer
Ashley Bouder - American ballet dancer
Kent Boyd - American teen dancing sensation; runner-up of Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance; contemporary jazz, Broadway
Isabella Boylston - American ballet dancer
Skylar Brandt - American ballet dancer
James Brown - African American dancer, entertainer, singer, musician and songwriter
Erik Bruhn - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
Stéphane Bullion - French ballet dancer
Cheryl Burke - American ballroom and Latin dancer
Darcey Bussell - British ballet dancer and TV presenter

C

Rita Cadillac - Brazilian dancer and singer
Maria Calegari - American ballet dancer
Claire Calvert - British ballet dancer
Alexander Campbell - Australian ballet dancer
Leslie Caron - French-born ballet dancer and American film actress
José Manuel Carreño - Cuban ballet dancer
Elisa Carrillo Cabrera - Mexican ballet dancer
Yvonne Cartier - British ballet dancer, mime and teacher
Irene Castle - ballroom dancer
Vernon Castle - ballroom dancer
Vakhtang Chabukiani - ballet dancer
Guru Chandrasekharan - Indian dancer
Cyd Charisse - American ballet and film dancer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Belgian choreographer, artistic director of Royal Ballet of Flanders
Yuhui Choe - Korean ballet dancer
Frances Chung - Canadian ballet dancer
Jeffrey Cirio - American ballet dancer
Lia Cirio - American ballet dancer
The Clark Brothers - tap dancers
Alina Cojocaru - Romanian ballet dancer
Valentine Colasante - French ballet dancer
Deborah Colker - Brazilian writer, theater director, dancer and choreographer
Calico Cooper - American actress, dancer, and singer daughter of Alice and Sheryl Cooper
Sheryl Cooper - American dancer and dance instructor, wife of Alice Cooper and mother of Calico Cooper
Jonathan Cope - British ballet dancer
Misty Copeland - American ballet dancer
Bernice Coppieters - Belgian ballet dancer
Jean Coralli - French ballet dancer and choreographer
Angel Corella - Spanish premier danseur
Erica Cornejo - Argentine ballet dancer
Herman Cornejo - Argentine ballet dancer
Cesar Corrales - Canadian ballet dancer
Joaquín Cortés - Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
Guillaume Côté - Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
J'aime Crandall - American ballet dancer
John Cranko - South African ballet dancer and choreographer
Dick Crum - American prominent folk dance teacher
Merce Cunningham - choreographer
Lauren Cuthbertson - English ballet dancer

D

Sophie Daguin - ballet mistress and ballerina
Dan Dailey - American film actor and dancer
Jean Dauberval - French dancer and choreographer
Shiamak Davar - Indian choreographer
David Dawson - British choreographer
Igone de Jongh - Dutch ballet dancer
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Louis Deland - ballet master, ballet dancer, choreographer
Patricia Delgado - American ballet dancer, répétiteur and teacher
Michaela DePrince - Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer
Gaby Deslys - French ballroom dancer and actress
Sasha De Sola - American ballet dancer
Prabhu Deva - Indian dancer and choreographer
Julie Diana - American ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
Charles-Louis Didelot - French dancer and choreographer
Anton Dolin - English ballet dancer and choreographer
Holly Dorger - American ballet dancer
Anthony Dowell - English ballet dancer and choreographer
Jurgita Dronina - Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer
Remo D'Souza - Indian Bollywood choreographer
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directors
Isadora Duncan - "mother of modern dance"
Katherine Dunham - pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique
Aurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet
Irina Dvorovenko - Ukrainian-American ballet dancer

E

Madeleine Eastoe - Australian ballet dancer
Andre Eglevsky - Russian-American ballet dancer and teacher; performed in Charles Chaplin's film Limelight
Alexander Ekman - Swedish choreographer
Jorma Elo - Finnish choreographer
Fanny Elssler - Austrian ballet dancer and actress
Sorella Englund - ballet dancer

F

Adolfina Fägerstedt - Swedish ballerina
Robert Fairchild - American ballet dancer and actor
Silas Farley - ballet dancer, choreographer and educator
Suzanne Farrell - ballet dancer
Jane Farwell - folk dance teacher
Marie Favart - French ballet dancer
Lorena Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer
Lorna Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer
Alessandra Ferri - Italian prima ballerina assoluta
Nikisha Fogo - Swedish ballet dancer
Michel Fokine - Russian choreographer
Margot Fonteyn - foremost British ballerina and assoluta
Thomas Forster (dancer) - English ballet dancer
Bob Fosse - American dancer and musical theater choreographer
Alina Frasa - Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer
Francesco Gabriele Frola - Italian ballet dancer
Anine Frölich - Danish ballerina
Jovani Furlan - Brazilian ballet dancer

G

Mara Galeazzi - Italian ballet dancer
Louis Gallodier - ballet master and choreographer
Mathieu Ganio - French ballet dancer
Gonzalo Garcia - Spanish ballet dancer
Daniel Gaudiello - Australian ballet dancer
Asen Gavrilov - Bulgarian ballet dancer and choreographer
Mitzi Gaynor - American film actress and dancer
Gisa Geert - Austrian actress and choreographer
Yekaterina Geltzer - prima ballerina of the Bolshoi in the 1910s and 1920s
Adeline Genée - Danish ballet dancer
Angelica Generosa - American ballet dancer
Yvonne Georgi - German ballet dancer
Elizaveta Gerdt - Russian dancer and teacher
Pavel Gerdt - "Prince of the St Petersburg stage"
Dorothée Gilbert - French ballet dancer
Marie-Agnès Gillot - French ballet dancer and choreographer
Ailes Gilmour - early Martha Graham dancer, socialist activist, and sister of Isamu Noguchi
Céline Gittens - Trinidadian ballet dancer
Alexander Godunov - Russian dancer who defected to the West
Matthew Golding - Canadian ballet dancer
Jeffrey Golladay - American ballet dancer
Chachi Gonzales - American hip-hop dancer
Betty Grable - American film actress and dancer
Alicia Graf Mack - American dancer
Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer
Carolina Granberg - Swedish ballerina
Yury Grigorovich - Russian dancer and choreographer
Fabio Grossi - Italian ballet dancer
Victor Gsovsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Sylvie Guillem - French ballet dancer

H

Craig Hall - American ballet dancer
David Hallberg - American ballet dancer
Anna Halprin - American postmodern dancer and teacher
Melissa Hamilton - Irish ballet dancer
MC Hammer - American hip hop dancer, rapper and choreographer
Christopher Hampson - English ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Scottish Ballet
Mata Hari - Dutch born dancer, courtesan and alleged spy
Evelyn Hart - ballet dancer
Sarah Hay - American actress and ballet dancer
Francesca Hayward - British ballet dancer
Rita Hayworth - American film dancer and actress
Robyn Hendricks - South African ballet dancer
Robert Helpmann - ballet dancer
Susan Hendl - American ballet dancer and répétiteur
Heike Hennig - German dancer and choreographer
Audrey Hepburn - ballerina and movie star
Isaac Hernández - Mexican ballet dancer
Paloma Herrera - Argentine ballet dancer and artistic director of Colon Theater Ballet
Laurent Hilaire - French ballet dancer, ballet master and associate director of the Paris Opera Ballet
Ryoichi Hirano - Japanese ballet dancer
Hedda Hjortsberg - ballet dancer
Greta Hodgkinson - American-Canadian ballet dancer
Hilde Holger - Austro-British expressionist dancer, choreographer, and pioneer of physically integrated dance
Anna Sophia Holmstedt - ballet dancer
Melissa Hough - American ballet dancer
Dulcie Howes - South African ballet dancer and founder of Cape Town City Ballet
Nikolaj Hübbe - Danish ballet dancer, artistic director of Royal Danish Ballet
Catherine Hurlin - American ballet dancer
Sterling Hyltin - American ballet dancer

I

Carrie Imler - American ballet dancer

J

Janet Jackson - American dancer, choreographer, actor and singer
Kevin Jackson - Australian ballet dancer
Michael Jackson - American dancer, choreographer, singer and entertainer
Rowena Jackson - New Zealand prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet
Drew Jacoby - American contemporary ballet dancer
Zizi Jeanmaire - French ballet dancer
Whitney Jensen - American ballet dancer
Lana Jones - Australian ballet dancer
Raghav Juyal - unique dancer in India, known for an imitative dance style, choreographer, dancer and also known for slo-motion dance style.

K

Karen Kain - Canadian prima ballerina
Yuriko Kajiya - Japanese ballet dancer
Fumi Kaneko - Japanese ballet dancer
Kang Sue-jin - Korean ballet dancer
Vera Karalli - ballet dancer and actress
Gene Kelly - American film and stage dancer, choreographer, singer, actor and film director
Julie Kent - American ballet dancer and artistic director of The Washington Ballet
Akram khan - English dancer and choreographer
Farah Khan - Indian Bollywood choreographer and filmmaker
Saroj Khan - Indian Bollywood choreographer
Michael Kidd - American Broadway and film choreographer and dancer
Ty King-Wall - New Zealand ballet dancer
Gelsey Kirkland - former legendary American Ballet Theatre and Principal dancer with the New York City Ballet
Nehemiah Kish - American ballet dancer
Daria Klimentová - Czech ballet dancer, teacher and photographer
Hikaru Kobayashi - Japanese ballet dancer
Maria Kochetkova - Russian ballet dancer
Ako Kondo - Japanese ballet dancer
Carla Körbes - Brazilian ballet dancer
Maria Kowroski - American ballet dancer
Gertrud Kraus - Israeli pioneer of modern dance
Rebecca Krohn - American ballet dancer
Mathilde Kschessinska - second prima ballerina assoluta
Misa Kuranaga - Japanese ballet dancer
Stephanie Kurlow - first Hijabi ballerina
Jiří Kylián - Czech choreographer

L

Rudolf Laban - choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
Lucia Lacarra - Spanish ballet dancer
Eddie Ladd - Welsh Physical Theatre performer and dancer
Sarah Lamb - American ballet dancer
Jean-Baptiste Landé - founder of the Russian ballet
Sarah Lane - American ballet dancer
Tina LeBlanc - American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master
Louise Lecavalier - icon of Canadian contemporary dance
Douglas Lee - British ballet dancer and choreographer
Manuel Legris - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Vienna State Ballet
Pierina Legnani - first prima ballerina assoluta
Sara Leland - American ballet dancer and répétiteur
Alban Lendorf - Danish ballet dancer
Nicolas Le Riche - French ballet dancer and choreographer
Lawrence Leritz - American dancer and choreographer
Agnès Letestu - French ballet dancer
Tracy Li - Chinese ballet dancer; a senior principal in the Cape Town City Ballet, South Africa
Edwaard Liang - Taiwanese-born American dancer and choreographer
Serge Lifar - Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer
Maude Lloyd - South African ballerina and dance critic
Elena Lobsanova - Russian-Canadian ballet dancer
Jennifer Lopez - American (Puerto Rican descent) dancer, singer and actress
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa - Belgian choreographer
Lydia Lopokova - Russian ballet dancer
Lauren Lovette - American ballet dancer and choreographer
Svetlana Lunkina - Russian ballet dancer

M

Brooklyn Mack - American ballet dancer
Mayara Magri - Brazilian ballet dancer
Shantanu Maheshwari - Indian dancer, choreographer and actor
Natascha Mair - Austrian ballet dancer
Natalia Makarova - Russian ballet dancer
David Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancer
Maia Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancer
Marianna Malińska (1767–fl.1797) - first native ballerina in Poland
Hugo Marchand - French ballet dancer
Paul Marque - French ballet dancer
Roberta Marquez - Brazilian ballet dancer
Cathy Marston - British choreographer
Sophie Martin - French ballet dancer
Kizzy Matiakis - English ballet dancer
José Martínez - Spanish ballet dancer
William Matons - WPA-era, 1930s modern dancer and choreographer, known later during Calypso craze as Calypso Joe, and later still as General Hershy Bar
Sabrina Matthews - Canadian ballet choreographer and former ballet dancer
Kay Mazzo - American ballet dancer and educator, Chairman of Faculty of School of American Ballet
David McAllister - Australian ballet dancer, former artistic director of The Australian Ballet
Wayne McGregor - British choreographer
Trey McIntyre - American dancer and choreographer
Amanda McKerrow - American ballet dancer
Rachael McLaren - Canadian dancer
Steven McRae - Australian ballet dancer
Tate McRae - first-ever Canadian finalist in So You Think You Can Dance
Sara Mearns - American ballet dancer
Vrushika Mehta - Indian contemporary dancer and television actress
Itziar Mendizabal - Spanish ballet dancer
Sulamith Messerer - founder of Japanese ballet
Jo Mihaly - German dancer and writer
Ann Miller - American tap dancer, singer, and actress, especially in films
Arthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
Shakti Mohan - Indian contemporary dancer and winner of Dance India Dance 2
Baisali Mohanty - Indian classical dancer and choreographer
Pippa Moore - English ballet dancer
Laura Morera - Spanish ballet dancer
Kathryn Morgan - American ballet dancer and YouTuber
Mary Ellen Moylan - American ballet dancer
Hope Muir - Canadian dancer, artistic director of National Ballet of Canada, former artistic director of Charlotte Ballet
Vadim Muntagirov - Russian ballet dancer
Gillian Murphy - American ballet dancer
Graeme Murphy - Australian choreographer
Arthur Murray - dance instructor and businessman, known for the Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise

N

Yasmine Naghdi - British ballet dancer
Gene Nelson - American film dancer, actor and television director
Nadia Nerina - South African ballet dancer
John Neumeier - American choreographer, artistic director of Hamburg Ballet
Nicholas Brothers - African American dancing brothers (Fayard and Harold) known for their acrobatic techniques
Kyra Nichols - American ballet dancer and teacher
Nikolina Nikoleski - Croatian teacher and choreographer of Bharatnatyam
Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Ena Noël - Australian children's author and ballet dancer
Charlotta Norberg - Swedish ballerina
Siphesihle November - South African ballet dancer
Ivan Novikoff - ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
Marianela Nuñez - Argentine-British ballet dancer
Rudolf Nureyev - Russian ballet dancer

O

Agnes Oaks - Estonian ballet dancer
Donald O'Connor - American dancer, singer and actor
Heather Ogden - Canadian ballet dancer
Fernanda Oliveira - Brazilian ballet dancer
Jonathan Ollivier - British dancer
Hannah O'Neill - New Zealand ballet dancer
Simona Orinska - only butoh artist in Latvia; multidisciplinary artist; contemporary dancer, poet, director and choreographer of many art projects; practitioner of dance therapy or dance movement therapy
Nancy Osbaldeston - English ballet dancer
Natalia Osipova - Russian ballet dancer
Clairemarie Osta - French ballet dancer
Anna Rose O'Sullivan - British ballet dancer
Sonia Osorio - Ballet de Colombia founder

P

Stephen Page - Australian choreographer, artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre
Ludmila Pagliero - Argentine ballet dancer
Maria Palmer - Austrian-born American actress and dancer
Hermes Pan - film choreographer, especially in collaboration with Fred Astaire
Noelani Pantastico - American ballet dancer
Merle Park - Zimbabwean ballerina at the Royal Ballet
Sae Eun Park - South Korean ballet dancer
Georgina Parkinson - English ballet dancer and ballet mistress
Veronika Part - Russian ballet dancer
Anna Pavlova - legendary Russian prima ballerina, who brought ballet to the world
Georgina Pazcoguin - American ballet dancer
Justin Peck - American ballet dancer and choreographer
Tiler Peck - American ballet dancer
Rupert Pennefather - English ballet dancer
Tina Pereira - Trinidadian-Canadian ballet dancer
Rosie Perez - American (Afro-Puerto Rican descent) dancer, choreographer, actress and director
Jules Perrot - French ballet dancer and choreographer
Marius Petipa - choreographer who created the classical ballet
Vilhelm Pettersson - Swedish ballet dancer
Unity Phelan - American ballet dancer
Juanita Pitts - African-American tap dancer
Maya Plisetskaya - prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1960 to 1990
David Poole - South African ballet dancer and ballet master at Cape Town City Ballet
Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing
Ida Praetorius - Danish ballet dancer
Angelin Preljocaj - French dancer and choreographer
Olga Preobrajenska - Russian dancer and teacher
Juliet Prowse - South African-American dancer, actress, and singer in many films, including G.I. Blues, which also starred Elvis Presley
Laetitia Pujol - French ballet dancer
Brian Puspos - American hip-hop dancer, choreographer

R

Sascha Radetsky - American ballet dancer and artistic director of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
Samantha Raine - British ballet dancer and ballet mistress
Daniel Rajna - South African ballet dancer, currently a principal in the Cape Town City Ballet
Tina Ramirez - founder and artistic director of Ballet Hispanico
Teresa Reichlen - American ballet dancer
Alice Renavand - French ballet dancer
Dwight Rhoden - American choreographer, artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Moon Ribas - choreographer with a cybernetic sensor attached to her body that allows her to feel earthquakes
María Noel Riccetto - Uruguayan ballet dancer
Jenifer Ringer - American ballet dancer and teacher
Jerome Robbins - American choreographer
Sonia Rodriguez - Canadian ballet dancer
Ginger Rogers - American film and stage dancer, singer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire
Tamara Rojo - Spanish ballet dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet
Pedro Romeiras - dancer gold medal winner 1982 II Prix Français de la Danse
Gunhild Rosén - Swedish ballerina, ballet master and choreographer
Danielle Rowe - Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
Calvin Royal III - American ballet dancer

S

Stephanie Saland - American ballet dancer and teacher
Saleem (Saleem Azzouqa) - gay Muslim playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer
Iana Salenko - Ukrainian-German ballet dancer
Marcelino Sambé - Portuguese ballet dancer
Oh Sehun - South Korean dancer and member of EXO
Ruth St. Denis - American dancer who tried to fuse modern dance with Egyptian and east Asian ideas; famously in collaboration with her partner Ted Shawn
Olga Sandberg (1844–1926) - Swedish ballerina
Margrethe Schall - ballerina
Silja Schandorff - Danish ballet dancer
Amanda Schull - American actress and ballet dancer
Amber Scott - Australian ballet dancer
Anders Selinder - ballet master and choreographer
Polina Semionova - Russian ballet dancer
Hee Seo - South Korean ballet dancer
Lynn Seymour - Canadian ballet dancer
Uday Shankar (Bengali: উদয় শংকর) (1900–1977) - pioneer of modern dance in India; world-renowned Indian dancer and choreographer; known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
Ted Shawn - ballet dancer often in collaboration with his influential partner Ruth St. Denis; they were the creators of Denishawn
Moira Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress in The Red Shoes
Fang-Yi Sheu - Taiwanese dancer
Ingrid Silva - Brazilian ballet dancer
Daniil Simkin - ballet dancer
Mary Skeaping - British ballerina
Charlotte Slottsberg - ballet dancer
Damian Smith - Australian ballet dancer
Thiago Soares - Brazilian ballet dancer
Yuri Soloviev - soloist of the Kirov Theatre
Jennie Somogyi - American ballet dancer
Phyllis Spira-Boyd - South African ballet dancer
Helene Spilling - Norwegian dancer and TV personality
Abi Stafford - American ballet dancer
Jonathan Stafford - American ballet dancer and artistic director of New York City Ballet
Taylor Stanley - American ballet dancer
Cory Stearns - American ballet dancer
Lisa Steier - Swedish ballerina
Dana Stephensen - Australian ballet dancer
Ethan Stiefel - American ballet dancer and choreographer
Beatriz Stix-Brunell - American ballet dancer
Madoka Sugai - Japanese ballet dancer
Laurretta Summerscales - British ballet dancer
Sofiane Sylve - French ballet dancer
Sofia Boutella - Algerian hip hop dancer
Shobana - Indian Bharatanatyam dancer

T

Marie Taglioni - Italian ballet dancer
Akane Takada - Japanese ballet dancer
Erina Takahashi - Japanese ballet dancer
Janie Taylor - American ballet dancer
Paul Taylor - American choreographer
Devon Teuscher - America ballet dancer
Twyla Tharp - American dancer and choreographer
Emmanuel Thibault (born 1974) - dancer, Paris Opera Ballet
Lisa Joann Thompson (born 1969) - Warrior Girl, Laker Girl, Fly Girl, and Motown Live dancer
Helgi Tómasson - Icelandic ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of [[San Francisco Ballet
Mark Tompkins (born 1954) - American-born French artist, dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance
Tamara Toumanova (1919–1997) - one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas"
Elizabeth Triegaardt - South African ballerina and current director of Cape Town City Ballet
Anna Tsygankova - Russian ballet dancer
Cassandra Trenary - American ballet dancer
Roger Tully (1928–2020) - dancer, teacher

U

Galina Ulanova (1910–1998) - Soviet prima ballerina assoluta
Eric Underwood - America British ballet dancer

V

Agrippina Vaganova - founder of Vaganova method
Dame Ninette de Valois - founder of the Royal Ballet of London
Rudi van Dantzig - Dutch choreographer
Hans van Manen - Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
Sarah Van Patten - American ballet dancer
Jillian Vanstone - Canadian ballet dancer
Francesca Velicu - Romanian ballet dancer
Vera-Ellen - American Broadway and film dancer and actress
Gwen Verdon - Broadway dancer and actress
Ben Vereen - Tony Award-winning, Emmy Award-nominated actor, dancer and singer
Friedemann Vogel - German ballet dancer
Anastasia Volochkova - Russian prima ballerina

W

Katita Waldo - Spanish ballet dancer and ballet master
Peter Walker - American ballet dancer and choreographer
Cilli Wang - Austrian-born Dutch dancer, performer and theater maker
Vincent Warren - American-born Canadian dancer, teacher, dance historian and lecturer
Edward Watson - British ballet dancer
Miranda Weese - American ballet dancer
Stanton Welch - Australian ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Houston Ballet
Christopher Wheeldon - British choreographer
Wendy Whelan - American ballet dancer and associate artistic director of New York City Ballet
James Whiteside - American ballet dancer
Joy Womack - American ballet dancer
Peter Wright - British ballet dancer and choreographer
Leni Wylliams - African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher

Y

Nadia Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
Yury Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
Zenaida Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
Lillian "Billie" Yarbo - Broadway dancer and comedienne^[1]^[2]
Miyako Yoshida - Japanese ballet dancer
Nellie Yu Roung Ling - Chinese dancer

Z

Vanessa Zahorian - American ballet dancer
Maddie Ziegler - American dancer

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References

^ List of dance personalities at the Internet Broadway Database
^ Johnson, Lillian (May 14, 1938). The Baltimore Afro-American. Page 10. Retrieved January 28, 2021.