Famous Dance Teachers — Page 2: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable dance teachers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Samuel Johnson
English dancing-master and dramatist
Shirin Vajifdar
Indian classical dancer
S. Narmada
Bharatanatyam exponent and dance teacher
Noemí Lapzeson
Argentinian dancer and choreographer (1940-2018)
K. J. Sarasa
Bharatanatyam Teacher
Britt Stewart
American dancer (born 1989)
Jennie Frances Brenan
Australian dancing teacher (1877-1964)
Hanne Wandtke
German university teacher
Anne Day-Helveg
Austrian dancer, dance teacher, and romance writer
Ronne Arnold
Australian dancer (1938–2020)
Olga Spessivtseva
Russian ballet dancer (1895–1991)
Ülle Ulla
Estonian actress and dancer (1934-2016)
Mohanrao Kallianpurkar
Kathak dancer and teacher from India
Lakshmi Viswanathan
Bharatanatyam exponent and Dance Teacher
La Meri
American dancer, choreographer, teacher, scholar, poet (1898–1988)
Hanna Berger
German music educator (1910–1962)
Zora Šemberová
Czech dancer, educator and choreographer
May Gadd
British-born expert on American and English country dance
Sophie Daguin
French actress and ballet dancer (1801–1881)
Friedrich Albert Zorn
German dancer and choreograph (1816-1895)
Lena Schilling
Austrian climate activist
K.C. Runremsangi
Indian folk singer
Laine Mägi
Estonian actress (born 1959)
Mylapore Gowri Ammal
Bharatanatyam Dancer, Dance Teacher
Sarada Hoffman
Bharatanatyam Exponent, Dance Teacher
Anna Raudkats
Estonian gymnastics teacher and folk dance teacher (1886-1965)
Benjamin Feliksdal
Dutch ballet dancer
Seerat Kapoor
Indian actress, choreographer, and dance instructor
Shona Dunlop MacTavish
dancer from New Zealand
Louis-Guillaume Pécour
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Muriel Stuart
ballet dancer and teacher (1900-1991)
Peter Brinson
British writer (1920–1995)
Caterina Beretta
Italian ballet dancer (1828-1911)
Nirmala Ramachandran
Bharatanatyam exponent, Dance Teacher (1936-2011)
Petrine Fredstrup
Danish ballet dancer
Barnett Nathan
English impresario and entertainer
Hertha Feist
German expressionist dancer (1896-1990)
Olga Preobrajenska
Prima ballerina and ballet teacher (1871–1962)
Richard Thomas
American ballet dancer (1925-2013)
Hilde Holger
Austrian British dancer and choreographer (1905-2001)
Aenne Goldschmidt
Swiss dancer and choreographer, mostly active in the GDR
Alexander Ivashkevich
actor, tap dancer residing in Estonia (born 1960)
Katti Lanner
Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer (1829–1908)
Lydia Kyasht
Russian-British ballet dancer and teacher
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Russian ballet dancer
Anita Sharma
Indian Sattriya dancer (b. 1969)
Francesco Corselli
Italian composer
Martha Myers
American dance educator
Olga Lepeshinskaya
Soviet ballet dancer
Marie Sallé
French ballet dancer
Camila Perissé
Argentinian actress (1954-2024)
Susanne Linke
German dancer and choreographer
Arthur Murray
American dance instructor (1895-1991)