This is a 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 Carmen Amaya - Spanish flamenco dancer and singer 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 Daniela Avanzini - American dancer and singer Gary Avis - British ballet dancer Silvia Azzoni - Italian ballet dancer
B Elisa Badenes - Spanish ballet dancer George Balanchine - Georgian-American choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet Caroline Baldwin (born 1990) - American ballet dancer Matthew Ball - British ballet dancer Shirley Ballas - British Latin dancer and TV presenter Dominika Banevič - Lithuanian breakdancer Ashley Banjo - British street dancer, choreographer and leader of Diversity Marie Barch (1744–1827) - Danish ballerina Liberty Barros - British yoga dancer 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 Inci Birol - Turkish belly dancer and actress Joan Boada - Cuban ballet dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser - Austrian dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of modern dance Roberto Bolle - Italian 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 Antoine Bournonville - French ballet dancer August Bournonville - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Julie Bournonville - ballet dancer Sofia Boutella - Algerian hip hop 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 Dany Bustros - Lebanese belly dancer Nadiya Bychkova - Ukrainian ballroom dancer
C Elisa Carrillo Cabrera - Mexican ballet dancer Flavia Cacace - Italian and British ballroom dancer Rita Cadillac - Brazilian dancer and singer Maria Calegari - American ballet dancer Claire Calvert - British ballet dancer Alexander Campbell - Australian ballet dancer Elisa Cansino - Spanish flamenco dancer Leslie Caron - French-born ballet dancer and American film actress José Manuel Carreño - Cuban ballet dancer Yvonne Cartier - British ballet dancer, mime and teacher Kamilla Carvalho - Brazilian samba dancer Irene Castle - British-American ballroom dancer Vernon Castle - British-American ballroom dancer Vakhtang Chabukiani - Georgian ballet dancer Guru Chandrasekharan - Indian dancer Cyd Charisse - American ballet and film dancer Si-Lan Chen - Chinese-Trinidadian dancer Sun Chen - Taiwanese breakdancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Belgian choreographer, artistic director of Royal Ballet of Flanders Sophie Chevigny - French ballet dancer Yuhui Choe - Korean ballet dancer Frances Chung - Canadian ballet dancer Jeffrey Cirio - American ballet dancer Lia Cirio - American ballet dancer The Clark Brothers - American tap dancers Joanne Clifton - British ballroom dancer Kevin Clifton - British ballroom dancer 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 Vito Coppola - Italian ballroom 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 Isabella Cubas - Spanish dancer Merce Cunningham - American choreographer Lauren Cuthbertson - English ballet dancer Nicole Cutler - South African ballroom dancer
D Sophie Daguin - ballet mistress and ballerina Dan Dailey - American film actor and dancer Dalilah - Spanish belly dancer Camilla Dallerup - Danish ballroom dancer Jean Dauberval - French dancer and choreographer Shiamak Davar - Indian choreographer Sibéal Davitt - Irish sean-nós dancer David Dawson - British choreographer Igone de Jongh - Dutch ballet dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker - choreographer Sasha De Sola - American ballet dancer Dame Ninette de Valois - Irish dancer, founder of the Royal Ballet of London 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 Prabhu Deva - Indian dancer and choreographer Julie Diana - American ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator Charles-Louis Didelot - French dancer and choreographer Aurelia Dimier - French baller dancer Dina - Egyptian belly dancer and actress Anton Dolin - British ballet dancer and choreographer Holly Dorger - American ballet dancer Amy Dowden - British ballroom dancer Anthony Dowell - British ballet dancer and choreographer Joanne Doyle - Irish performer of Irish dance 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 Anton Du Beke - British ballroom dancer and TV presenter Isadora Duncan - American dancer, "mother of modern dance" Katherine Dunham - American pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique Colin Dunne - Irish performer of Irish dance Aurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet Irina Dvorovenko - Ukrainian-American ballet dancer
E Madeleine Eastoe - Australian ballet dancer Julia Edwards - Trinidadian dancer and choreographer 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 - Finnish ballet dancer Merche Esmeralda - Spanish flamenco dancer
F Adolfina Fägerstedt - Swedish ballerina Hekmet Fahmy - Egyptian belly dancer and actress Robert Fairchild - American ballet dancer and actor Silas Farley - American ballet dancer, choreographer and educator Suzanne Farrell - American ballet dancer Jane Farwell - American folk dance teacher Marie Favart - French ballet dancer Lorena Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer Lorna Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer Jairo Barrull Fernández - Spanish flamenco dancer Marcelo Ferreira - Brazilian dancer and choreographer Alessandra Ferri - Italian prima ballerina assoluta Graciela Figueroa - Uruguayan dancer and choreographer Michael Flatley - American step dancer Bernadette Flynn - Irish performer of Irish dance Nikisha Fogo - Swedish ballet dancer Michel Fokine - Russian choreographer Margot Fonteyn - British ballerina and assoluta Thomas Forster - British ballet dancer Bob Fosse - American dancer and musical theater choreographer Nagwa Fouad - Egyptian belly dancer Celia Franca - British ballet dancer, co-founder of the National Ballet of Canada Alina Frasa - Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer Francesco Gabriele Frola - Italian ballet dancer Anine Frölich - Danish ballerina Fujiko Fujima - Japanese dancer Jovani Furlan - Brazilian ballet dancer Anzu Furukawa - Japanese butoh 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 Chantal Gondang - Cameroonian dancer and choreographer Chachi Gonzales - American hip-hop dancer Len Goodman - British ballroom dancer and TV presenter 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, choreographer and artistic director Fabio Grossi - Italian ballet dancer Victor Gsovsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Carlos Gu - Chinese ballroom dancer Sylvie Guillem - French ballet dancer Martha Gularte - Uruguayan candombe dancer, poet and vedette Erdem Gündüz - Turkish dancer Yolanda Gutiérrez - Mexican and German dancer and artist
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 - Canadian ballet dancer Karen Hauer - Venezuelan–American ballroom dancer Sarah Hay - American actress and ballet dancer Francesca Hayward - British ballet dancer Rita Hayworth - American film dancer and actress Robert Helpmann - Australian ballet dancer