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pt:António M Cabrita; Gloria Campobello; Nellie Campobello; pt:São Castro; Jonathan Stuart Cerullo; Kate Champion; Sean Cheesman; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Lucinda Childs
George Balanchine (/ ˈ b æ l ən (t) ʃ iː n, ˌ b æ l ən ˈ (t) ʃ iː n /; [1] born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; [a] January 22, 1904 [O.S. January 9] – April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American [2] ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th-century. [3]
Jack Cole (born John Ewing Richter; April 27, 1911 – February 17, 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance" [1] for his role in codifying African-American jazz dance styles, as influenced by the dance traditions of other cultures, for Broadway and Hollywood.
Fred Astaire (() 10 May 1899 – () 22 June 1987), American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. He was an innovator in dance. He was an innovator in dance. He made 31 musical films, 10 featuring his dances with Ginger Rogers , and was honored with the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American ...
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) [1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. [ 2 ] Graham danced and taught for over seventy years.
Dwight Rhoden - American choreographer, artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet; Moon Ribas - choreographer with a cybernetic sensor attached to her body that allows her to feel earthquakes; María Noel Riccetto - Uruguayan ballet dancer; Jenifer Ringer - American ballet dancer and teacher; Jerome Robbins - American choreographer
Berkeley was born in Los Angeles, California, to Francis Enos (who died when Busby was eight) and stage actress Gertrude Berkeley (1864–1946). Among Gertrude's friends, and a performer in Tim Frawly's Stock company run by Busby Berkeley's father, were actress Amy Busby from whom Berkeley gained the appellation "Buzz" or "Busby" [2] [3] and actor William Gillette, then only four years away ...
Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle , Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy.