List of dancers


A

  • César Abreu, Puerto Rican and American dancer, former member of Menudo, dancer at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House, film maker
  • Fred Astaire, American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. He was an innovator in dance. He made 31 musical films, 10 featuring his dances with Ginger Rogers, and was honored with the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
  • Alvin Ailey, American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
  • Ann-Margret - American actress, singer, and dancer.
  • Mary Anthony, American modern dancer, choreographer, dance teacher
  • Allu Arjun, Indian actor who works in Telugu Cinema. One of the highest paid actors in India. He is also known for his extraordinary dancing skills.
  • Alisha Singh, Indian television actress, dancer and choreographer
  • Hortensia Arnaud, pioneering Argentine dancer, vedette, and actress of film and stage
  • Ayo & Teo, duo of dancers and musicians from Ann Arbor, Michigan

    B

  • George Balanchine, Georgian ballet choreographer. He is one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers and one of the founders of American ballet. His work formed a bridge between classical and modern ballet.
  • Sara Baras, female Flamenco dancer, born in the port of Cadiz
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov, Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor
  • Rodney Bell, known for physically integrated dance
  • Bez, renowned as the dancer for the Happy Mondays
  • Vytautas Beliajus, considered the father of international folk dancing in the United States
  • Blaž Bertoncelj and Andrea Podlogar, Slovenian dance and choreography team
  • Neil Bhatt, dancer, choreographer and actor from India, known for his work in Indian television. Who is also a Gujarat State Award Winner for choreography in his debut film Bhanwar.
  • Carlo Blasis, Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician
  • Chrystelle Trump Bond, American dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
  • AC Bonifacio, Filipino-Canadian actress, singer, model and dancer
  • Anise Boyer, American dancer who was part of the Cotton Club chorus line during the Harlem Renaissance and travelled with Cab Calloway's band
  • James "Buster" Brown, internationally renowned American tap dancer
  • Rachel Brice, American professional belly dancer in Fusion style belly dance based in Portland, Oregon
  • James Brown, commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", the "King of Funk", "Soul Brother #1" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was an American entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing.
  • Jean Butler, Irish step dancer
  • Glenn Ball, English world champion line dancer and West Coast swing dancer, renowned choreographer
  • Beaupré, French ballet dancer

    C

  • Raymond and Joyce Callis, English ballroom dancing champions
  • Chiranjeevi, Indian actor and producer who works in Telugu cinema. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is known for his break dancing skills.
  • Don Campbell, American dancer
  • Leslie Caron, French dancer and motion picture actress
  • Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer, founder of the Cecchetti method.
  • Vernon and Irene Castle, husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers of the early 20th century
  • Helena Cholewicka, Polish ballet dancer and only titular "prima ballerina assoluta" in Warsaw Government Theatres
  • Paul Christiano, American dancer and choreographer. Started out as a gymnast, then moved into dance. He was Chicago Magazine "Dancer of the year" 2003 and one of Time Outs "Dancing Men of 2010"
  • Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer. She is best known for her hip-hop style and contemporary dance choreography.
  • Bessie Clayton, considered the mother of American toe-tap dancing
  • Jack Cole, American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as the father of theatrical jazz dance
  • Dean Collins, American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and innovator of swing. He is often credited with bringing swing dance, or Lindy Hop, from New York to Southern California.
  • Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.
  • Jean Coralli, French dancer and choreographer and later held the esteemed post of First Balletmaster of the Paris Opera Ballet. He is best known for the creation of the Romantic ballet Giselle which he choreographed in tandem with another French dancer, Jules Perrot.
  • Joaquín Cortés, classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer from Spain of Roma origin
  • Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
  • Sophie Chevigny, French ballet dancer

    D

  • Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, also known as Nappytabs, choreographers and creative directors who are credited with developing the new style of hip-hop dance known as lyrical hip-hop.
  • Alex Da Silva, Brazilian dancer and choreographer, specializing in Salsa dancing. Da Silva is also known for being a recurring guest choreographer on the Fox TV show So You Think You Can Dance.
  • Astad Deboo, Indian dancer-choreographer, who has mixed a modern and contemporary dance styles, with Indian classical dance forms of Kathak and Kathakali in which he has trained, to create style unique to him.
  • Nicole de Weever, Sint Maarten dancer and choreographer
  • Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
  • Charles-Louis Didelot, French dancer and choreographer
  • Lucinda Dickey, American dancer and actress best known for her role as Kelly in the 1984 cult film Breakin' and the 1984 sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
  • Devi Dja, Indonesian-born American dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer
  • Tia Doca, Brazilian samba dancer and singer
  • Doctor Ice, influenced Hip-Hop dancing to a new form. His influence can be noted by the dance moves in videos done by artists such as Kid N Play, Scrap Lover and Scoop Lover and G-Wiz and the late Trouble T-Roy.
  • Shabba Doo, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director. He has appeared in film and television. He became one of the founders of hip hop dancing as a member of The Original Lockers. He is one of the pioneers the dance style commonly known as "locking".
  • Isadora Duncan, American dancer. She was born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, California, and is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe.
  • Katherine Mary Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century and has been called the Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance.
  • Dharmesh Yelande, Indian dancer, choreographer and reality show judge

    E

  • Amera Eid, Australian belly dancer and owner of an Australian belly dance school, Amera's Palace. Eid opened Amera's Palace belly dance boutique in 1987, which included one of the first belly dance schools in Sydney.
  • Fanny Elssler, Austrian dancer
  • Makhmud Esambayev, Soviet Chechen actor and dancer
  • Norberto Esbrez, Argentinian tango dancer, choreographer, and teacher of tango nuevo. He is known as El Pulpo or octopus for his fluid and intricate leg moves.

    F

  • Eugene Louis Faccuito, American jazz dancer, choreographer, teacher and innovator who is best known for creating a jazz exercise technique.
  • Lusi Faiva, known for physically integrated dance
  • Nora Fatehi, Indian dancer, singer, and actress, she is a belly dancer and Hip- hop dancer.
  • Antonio Fini, Italian dancer, choreographer, educator and producer
  • Michael Ryan Flatley, Irish step dancer from the south side of the country
  • Flying Steps, German breakdance crew, founded in 1993.
  • Cristina Wistari Formaggia, key participant in the preservation and dissemination of Balinese dance
  • Bob Fosse, dancer, actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and most notably a groundbreaking jazz/musical theatre choreographer. He won eight tony awards for choreography. His unique and famous style has been imitated and recreated over and over again throughout the world.
  • Michel Fokine, groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer. Fokine staged more than 70 ballets in Europe and the United States.
  • Evan-Burrows Fontaine, American interpretive dancer and Ziegfeld Follies performer
  • Dame Margot Fonteyn, widely regarded as England's greatest ballerina, stage partner and friend of Rudolf Nureyev for many years.
  • William Forsythe, American dancer and choreographer resident in Dresden in Saxony. He is known internationally for his work with the Frankfurt Ballet and his reorientation of classical ballet.
  • Joe Frisco, American vaudeville performer who first made his name on stage as a jazz dancer, but later incorporated his stuttering voice to his act and became a popular comedian. Frisco was a mainstay on the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his Broadway debut in the Florenz Ziegfeld Follies in 1918.
  • Chicho Frumboli, one of the most famous Argentine Tango dancers. He is best known for his improvisation skills, and is regarded as one of the founders of Tango nuevo. He usually dances in this open style but is at ease when dancing close. He performed among others with Gotan Project, Tanghetto and Narcotango.
  • Loie Fuller, pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.
  • Marcelo Ferreira, one of the most talented Brazilian Dancers, now he is a Coryphee with the Leipziger Ballett, Germany. Finished his training at the School of the Hamburg Ballet, under direction of Kevin Heigen and Gigi Hyatt, worked with the Bundesjugendballett where he was nominated “Talent to watch” by Dance Magazine in 2017.