Dance personalia

• Alvin Ailey - ballet choreographer
• Fred Astaire - an American film and Broadway ballroom dancer and actor.
• George Balanchine - a choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
• Mikhail Baryshnikov - Russian ballet dancer
• Irene Castle - ballroom dancer
• Vernon Castle - ballroom dancer
• Merce Cunningham - choreographer
• Sergei Diaghilev - Russian ballet impressario
• Isadora Duncan - the Mother of Modern Dance
• Suzanne Farrell - ballet dancer
• Michael Fokin(Michel Fokine, Michael Fokine, Mikhail Fokin) a Russian choreographer
• Margot Fonteyn - ballet dancer
• Ginger and Fred are Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
• Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer
• Robert Helpmann - ballet dancer
• Karen Kain - ballet dancer
• Rudolf Laban - choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
• Arthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
• Arthur Murray - a famous dance instructor and businessman, known for Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise.
• Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
• Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
• Rudolf Nureyev - Russian ballet dancer
• Anna Pavlova - Russian ballet dancer
• Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
• Ginger Rogers - American film ballroom dancer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire.
• Paul Taylor - American choreographer
• Twyla Tharp - American dancer and choreographer
• Tamara Toumanova (1919-1997) (one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas")
• Galina Ulanova (1910-1988), Russian ballerina
• Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet of London