Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 4: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Gillian Lynne
British ballet dancer, actress, choreographer and director (1926-2018)
Johnny Bovang
South African ballet dancer
Vakhtang Chabukiani
Georgian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1910–1992)
Else Højgaard
Danish film actress and ballerina (1906-1979)
Elna Jørgen-Jensen
Danish actress (1890-1969)
Elna Lassen
Danish ballerina (1901–1930)
Nelly Karim
Egyptian ballerina and actress
Dai Ailian
ballerina (1916-2006)
Ninette de Valois
British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet
Gerd Kjølaas
Norwegian choreographer and dancer
Sharon Savoy
American dancer
Moscelyne Larkin
American ballet dancer (1925-2012)
Jacqueline Moreau
French ballet dancer and ballet teacher
Vera Shvetsova
Russian ballerina
Patricia Delgado
American ballet dancer
Anneli Alhanko
Swedish ballet dancer and actress
Jennifer Welsman
Canadian ballet dancer
Michel François Hoguet
French Ballet dancer and choreographer (1793-1871)
Geneviève Guérard
Canadian dancer and television presenter
Ekaterina Maximova
Russian ballet dancer (1939-2009)
Stanley Hall
American ballet dancer
Yvonne Chouteau
Native American ballet dancer (1929–2016)
Vivi Flindt
ballet dancer
Slava Tutukin
International arts executive, director, and former professional ballet dancer
Lois Smith
ballet dancer, dance teacher (1929-2011)
Hope Muir
Canadian dancer, rehearsal director and artistic director
Rachel Cameron
Australian ballet dancer and teacher
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Kenn Burke
British ballet dancer
Michael Hsu Rosen
American actor and dancer
Fiona Chadwick
British ballerina
Anna Ludmilla
American ballet dancer (1903-1990)
Francia Russell
American ballet dancer
Vladimir Vasiliev
Soviet dancer
Anna Lærkesen
Danish soloist at the Royal Danish Ballet
Laurent Hilaire
French ballet dancer
Robert Parker
British dancer
Mona Vangsaae
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (1920-1983)
Guillermina Bravo
Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (1920-2013)
Heidi Ryom
Danish ballerina
Hanan Tork
Egyptian actress and ballerina
Jodie Gates
ballet dancer
Alexander Campbell
Australian ballet dancer
Karin von Aroldingen
German ballet dancer (1941-2018)
Julie Diana
American ballet dancer, teacher, arts administrator and writer
Toni Lander
Danish ballerina (1931–1985)
Marina Kondratyeva
Russian ballet dancer
Tamara Karsavina
Russian ballet dancer
Jennifer Penney
Canadian ballerina
Olga Moiseeva
Russian ballet dancer
Lauren Anderson
American ballet dancer (born 1965)
Birgitte Andersen
Stage actor and ballet dancer
Eva Von Gencsy
Margalit Oved
American-Israeli dancer and choreographer
Shree Saini
Indian-American activist
Colette Marchand
French dancer and actress (1925-2015)
Robert Weiss
American ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director of Carolina Ballet
Leanne Cope
British dancer, actress and singer
Damian Woetzel
American dancer
Eva Haalke
Norwegian dancer and ballet teacher
Eric Emerson
Musician, actor, dancer (1945–1975)
Johan Renvall
Swedish dancer
Marie Taglioni
Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)
Sonia Taverner
ballet dancer 1936—
Jorge Samaniego
Miriam Adams
Canadian dancer, choreographer and archivist
Eglė Špokaitė
Lithuanian ballet dancer
Noelle Rose Andressen
ballet dancer, and choreographer
William Forsythe
American choreographer (born 1949)
Rolando Sarabia
Cuban ballet dancer
Yulia Kanakina
Russian skeleton racer
Joan Gadsdon
Australian ballet dancer, actor and artist
Nancy Reynolds
American ballet dancer and dance historian (born 1938)
Mette Bødtcher
Danish ballet dancer
Elisabetta Terabust
ballet dancer (1946–2018)
Lois Bewley
American dancer and choreographer (1934–2012)
Mariana Montes
Argentine dancer
Sol Picó
Spanish dancer and choreographer (born 1967)
Lydia Lopokova
Russian ballet dancer (1892–1981)
Patricia Taylor
Canadian microbiologist (1929–2024)
Claude Balon
French dancer
Tamara Geva
Soviet-American actress and dancer (1906–1997)
Solange Schwarz
ballet dancer 1910–2000
Marie-Madeleine Guimard
French ballerina (1743-1816)
Lev Ivanov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, creator of a "Swan Lake" (1834–1901)
Cree Cicchino
American actress
Jeanetta Laurence
former director of The Royal Ballet
Aksinya Sergeeva
Russian ballet dancer (1726-1756)
Antonia Franceschi
American actor and choreographer
Noroviin Baatar
Mongolian ballet dancer
Momoko Hirata
Japanese ballet dancer (1985-)
André Eglevsky
American dancer (1917–1977)
Paul Boos
American dancer
Radu Poklitaru
Ukrainian ballet dancer, choreographer, and director
Larisa Latynina
Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer (born 1934)
Frances Taylor Davis
American dancer and actress (1929-2018)
Laurie Babin
performing artist in Canada
Ksenia Karelina
Russian-American ballet dancer (born 1991)
Virginia Zucchi
Italian dancer
Vladimir Muravlev
Russian ballet dancer
Katharine Wildish
American ballerina
Kay Mazzo
American ballet dancer and educator
Ivan Valberkh
Russian choreographer, ballet master and ballet dancer (1766-1819)
Miss Kittin
French electronic musician (born 1973)
Arch Higgins
ballet dancer
Larissa Lezhnina
Russian ballet dancer
Lynn Seymour
Canadian-born ballet dancer (1939–2023)
Carlo Blasis
Italian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher (1797–1878)
Galina Ulanova
Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998)
Alicia Alonso
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (1920-2019)
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo
French dancer
Lila York
American dancer and choreographer
Mathilde Kschessinska
Russian ballet dancer and princess
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer and choreographer
Lucia Nifontova
Finnish ballet dancer (1913–1987)
Vasyl Avramenko
Ukrainian dancer (1895–1981)
Pina Bausch
German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director (1940–2009)
Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin
Russian ballet dancer (1907-1970)
Cynthia Harvey
American ballet dancer
Galina Mezentseva
Russian ballet dancer