Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 7: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Alan Carter
British ballet dancer
Esmeralda Agoglia
Argentine ballerina (1923–2014)
Kader Belarbi
French ballet dancer
Yasmine Naghdi
British ballet dancer
Peter Wright
British ballet teacher, choreographer, director and former professional dancer
Maria Calegari
American ballet dancer, teacher and répétiteur
Jorge Cáceres
Chilean poet, painter and dancer (1923-1949)
Rosita Mauri
Catalan dancer and ballet teacher
Emma Riis-Kofoed
Danish ballet dancer
Petra Conti
Italian ballerina
Lorca Massine
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Joseph Mazilier
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1801–1868)
Natalya Arinbasarova
Soviet and Russian actress (1946- )
Julia Makhalina
ballet dancer
Ksenia Ovsyanick
British ballet dancer
Jeffrey Cirio
American ballet dancer
Aleksandr Shiryaev
dancer (Mariinsky and Ballets Russes), pioneer of film and animation
Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter
Danish ballet dancer and ballet instructor
Lorna Feijóo
Cuban ballet dancer
Ludmila Savelyeva
Soviet and Russian actress
Giuliana Penzi
Italian ballerina
George Zoritch
Russian-born American ballet dancer (1917–2009)
Nino Ramishvili
Georgian ballet dancer and ballet master (1910-2000)
Li Chengxiang
Chinese choreographer
Lotte Berk
German dancer
Lis Jeppesen
Danish ballerina
Jean Garling
Australian ballet dancer
María Amuchástegui
Argentine television fitness instructor, ballerina, and singer (1953-2017)
Mario Fernando Aguilera
Argentinian choreographer
Monique Loudières
French ballet dancer, teacher
Igor Moiseyev
Soviet dancer (1906–2007)
Olga Ferri
Ballet Dancer (1928–2012)
Janet Collins
American dancer (1917–2003)
Maria Skorsiuk
Russian ballet dancer (1872–1901)
Nina Alexandrovna Tikhonova
russian-French ballet dancer and dance teacher (1910–1995)
Wendy Whelan
American ballet dancer
Alicia Holloway
American ballerina and television personality
Irina Grjebine
Russian ballet dancer
Summer Glau
American actress
Wen Wei Wang
chinese-Canadian businessman, choreographer, dancer, and teacher
Sonoya Mizuno
British actress
Luminița Dumitrescu
Romanian ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet teacher
Ludmila Semenyaka
Soviet and Russian ballerina
Jean-Marie Leclair
French Baroque violinist and composer
Luba Marks
French fashion designer
Aleksey Yermolayev
Russian ballet dancer (1910–1975)
Ida Brun
Dancer, singer
Sarah Van Patten
American ballerina
Emilie Walbom
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (1858-1932)
Dada Masilo
South African dancer and choreographer (1985–2024)
Alexis Rassine
South African ballet dancer
Li Chun
Chinese actress
Lola Botka
Hungarian-Chilean ballerina, teacher and director (1910–2006)
Irina Nijinska
Russian ballet dancer
Jason Fowler
American ballet dancer
Helmi Puur
Estonian ballet dancer and ballet master (1933-2014)
Agrippina Vaganova
Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)
Miguel Gutierrez
American dance and music artist
Nina Youshkevitch
ballet dancer
Stephanie Dabney
African American dancer who performed as a prima ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem from 1979 through 1994
Caroline Kellermann
Danish ballet dancer
David Makhateli
Georgian ballet dancer
Yulia Meltzer
ballerina, wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili
Rudolf Kharatyan
Armenian dancer (born 1947)
Jules Perrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1810–1892)
TonyPitony
Italian singer-songwriter
Jean Babilée
French ballet dancer (1923–2014)
Andrew Wilson
Irish ballet dancer, ballet teacher, choreographer and academic administrator
Beatriz Consuelo
Brazilian dancer (1932-2013)
Olga Smirnova
Russian ballet dancer (1991-)
Antonio Gades
Spanish dancer (1936-2004)
Tina LeBlanc
American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master
Yuri Zhukov
Russian ballet dancer
Jordan Banjo
British dancer, part of the dance troupe Diversity
Michelle Potter
dancer, choreographer and dance critic
Valery Loginov
Russian chess player
Nina Kirsanova
Ballet dancer and teacher
Jérémie Bélingard
French choreographer
Kaie Kõrb
Estonian ballet dancer (born 1961)
Janie Taylor
US ballet dancer, répétiteur and costume designer
Ben Stevenson
British ballet dancer
Charlotte Nebres
black American ballet dancer
Mary Skeaping
British ballet dancer
Anna Regina Tychsen
German-born Danish ballet dancer
Julie Alix de la Fay
Belgian ballet dancer
John Barker
American dancer, ballet teacher and translator (1929-2020)
Lexi Ainsworth
American actress
Du Juan
Chinese ballet dancer and model
Anastasia Smirnova
Russian ballet dancer (born 2001)
Olha Khokhlova
Ukrainian model and dancer (1891-1955)
Sae Eun Park
South Korean ballet dancer
Chyrstyn Fentroy
American ballet dancer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Belgian choreographer and dancer
Maia Wilkins
American ballerina
Jelko Yuresha
British ballet dancer (1937-2020)
Flora Fabbri
19th century ballet dancer
Carmen De Lavallade
American dancer (1931–2025)
Jin Xing
Chinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress
Joseph Sissens
British ballet dancer
Peter Tchernyshev
Russian-American ice dancer
Valentina Kashuba
Russian ballet dancer
Antoine Bournonville
French actor and ballet dancer
Igor Youskevitch
ballet dancer (1912–1994)
Christine Kaufmann
German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)
Francisco Moncion
Dominican-American ballet dancer
Marina Olenina
Sandra Fortune-Green
American ballet dancer and teacher
Harold Turner
British ballet star
Daphne Dale
ballet dancer 1931—1982
Boris Lisanevich
Russian businessman
Yvette Chauviré
French ballet dancer (1917–2016)
Annabelle Gamson
American dancer
Nicole Maxwell
American medicinal plant researcher and ethnobotanist (1905/6 - 1998)
Olivia Book
Canadian ballerina
Vera-Ellen
actress, singer, dancer (1921-1981)
Nadia Nerina
South African ballet dancer (1927–2008)
Alban Lendorf
Danish ballet dancer and actor
Evelyn Cisneros
American ballerina
Alla Sizova
Russian ballet dancer (1939–2014)
Janet Lindup
South African ballet dancer