Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, también conocido como Rudolf Jamétovich Nuréyev (nótese que su nombre es Rudólf, no Rúdolf) (en cirílico Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев) (17 de marzo de 1938 - 6 de enero de 1993)...

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Fernando Bujones (Miami, 9 de março de 1955 — Miami, 10 de novembro de 2005) foi um bailarino norte-americano. Nascido em Miami, Florida, de pais cubanos, Bujones era considerado um dos maiores baila...

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from Angela Leigh, 78; a Founder of National Ballet of Canada - Obituaries December 3, 2004 Angela Leigh, 78, a founding member and former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada, died Tu...

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Tamara Geva (17 March 1907 - 9 December 1997) was a Russian actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. She was the first wife of dancer/choreographer George Balanchine. Biography She was born ...

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Vera Zorina (January 2, 1917 – April 9, 2003) was a Norwegian ballerina, musical theatre actress and choreographer. Background Vera Zorina was born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, Germany. He...

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Tanaquil Le Clercq (2 October 1929, Paris, France — 31 December 2000, New York City) was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, but her dancing career was ended when she was stricken with ...

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Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally direct...

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Marge Champion (born September 2, 1919) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. Early years Champion was born Marjorie Celeste Belcher in Los Angeles, California, to Hollywood danc...

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Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Early years Champion was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of John...

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Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic danc...

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Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), was an English ballerina. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She spent her entire ca...

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Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He...

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Lisa Rinehart is a ballet dancer for the American Ballet Theater, and often writes articles for the "DanceView Times", an online blog. She also starred in Dancers, also known as Giselle or A Time to ...

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Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs) (born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" is a Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor...

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Lucia Chase (24 March 1897; Waterbury, Connecticut - 9 January 1986; New York, USA) was an American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre. Career...

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Charles Weidman (1901 – 1975) is a renowned choreographer, modern dancer and teacher. He is well known as one of the pioneers of Modern Dance in America. He wanted to break free from the traditional ...

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Catherine Littlefield (1905 — 1951) was an American ballerina and choreographer, one of the first inductees (1987) into the Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Dance. She founded the Philadelp...

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Ruth St. Denis (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dance and the teacher of s...

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Ted Shawn (21 October 1891 — 9 January 1972), originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St...

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Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was a dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham Humphr...

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Agnes George de Mille was born in New York City, September 18, 1905, daughter of film producer, William de Mille and Anna (George) de Mille, daughter of economist Henry George. When Agnes was nine year...

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Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an actress and dancer who won four Tony awards for her musical comedy performances. With flaming red hair and an endearing quave...

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Frederick Hawkins known as Erick Hawkins (April 23, 1909 – November 23, 1994) was a leading American modern-dance choreographer and dancer. Born in Trinidad, Colorado on April 23 1909, he majored...

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George Balanchine, born Giorgi Balanchivadze (Georgian: გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე, Russian: Георгий Мелитонович Баланчивадзе) (January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1904 – April 30, 1983), was one of the 20th century...

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Katherine Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, and company director as well as an author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful ...

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Marjorie Louise Tallchief (born 1927 in Denver, Colorado) was a ballerina of the Osage Nation. Career Tallchief was the first American Indian to be "première danseuse étoile" of the Paris Ope...

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Maria Tallchief (born January 24, 1925) was the first Native American to become prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is even better known for he...

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Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsk...

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PAOLA STYRON (Co-Director of IF) Paola is an internationally acclaimed modern dancer. She was a leading performer and collaborator for over twenty years with choreographer /director Martha Clarke. Prod...

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Gelsey Kirkland (born 29 December 1952, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American ballerina. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age fifteen, at the invitation of George Balanchine. ...

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Pati Behrs (February 13, 1922 – July 4, 2004) was a Russian-born prima ballerina. Biography Pati Behrs Eristoff was a prima ballerina and a grandniece of Leo Tolstoy. She may be best known as...

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Colette , de son vrai nom Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, est une romancière française, née à Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (Yonne) le 28 janvier 1873, morte à Paris le 3 août 1954. Elle est élue membre de l’Aca...

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Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born dancer, singer, and actress. Nicknamed the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and even the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations, i...

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She was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top stars, but also as the era's greatest sex symbol, most notably in Gilda (1946). She appea...

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 18, 2008 Filed at 8:14 a.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cyd Charisse, the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in...

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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was a singer, dancer, actress, and activist who had a wildly successful career as a nightclub performer and recording artist. She was one of the first African-Americans to sign ...

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American stage and film dancer and actress Ginger Rogers along with Fred Astaire was the most legendary dancing team in film history; she was also a successful dramatic actress, even winning a Best Act...

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Photos Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927) was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Europe and the Soviet Union fro...

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Mata Hari is Maleis voor 'OOG van de DAGERAAD, ofwel ZON (in Dutch) (in English) google images

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Carlotta Grisi, whose real name was Caronne Adele Giuseppina Maria Grisi, was born in Visinada, Istria, on June 28, 1819. Her mother's name was Maria (born Boschetti), and her father was Vincenzo Gri...

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Anna Pavlova Even if you are not a ballet enthusiast, chances are you have heard of Anna Pavlova, the physically tiny Russian ballerina who rocked the world of classical ballet at the turn of the cen...

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