Home›Dance and Theatre Performers›All Dance and Theatre PerformersBrowse ByAll Dance and Theatre PerformersReference and ClassificationVerifiedArtists whose primary practice is performing or staging live theatrical or dance works, rather than writing them, spanning ballet, modern dance, and theatrical performance and direction. Belongs here: dancers, choreographers, actors, theatre directors, and impresarios whose art is realized in live performance or its staging. Does not belong here: playwrights and dramatists whose primary practice is writing the dramatic text performed, who are grouped under Dramatists and Playwrights, and composers and musicians, who are grouped under Composers or Performing Musicians and Vocalists.FactsAll Dance and Theatre PerformersSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonCore Arts DisciplineWell-attestedTheatre 1Core Arts DisciplineWell-attestedDance 2All Dance and Theatre PerformersFilter Results44 entriesMovementAllModernism (1)Realism (1)Romanticism (1)Art MovementAllBallets Russes Artists (5)Butoh Dancers (2)Classical and Romantic Ballet Dancers (3)Film and Broadway Dancers (4)Flamenco Dancers (2)Indian Classical Dancers (4)Modern Dance Pioneers (10)Peking Opera Performers (2)Stage and Film Actors (4)Twentieth-Century Ballerinas (2)World and Traditional Dancers (4)Active EraAll1898 to 1929 (1)1905 to 1981 (1)1908 to 1917 (1)1920 to 1986 (1)1921 to 1975 (1)1924 to 1963 (1)1925 to 1987 (1)1926 to 1967 (1)1928 to 1972 (1)1931 to 1994 (1)1933 to 2007 (1)1935 to 1998 (1)1938 to 2009 (1)NationalityAllArgentina (1)Austria (1)British Raj (2)Cambodia (1)China (2)Cuba (1)Egypt (1)France (5)Germany (1)India (4)Italy (1)Japan (3)Latvia (1)North Korea (1)Qing dynasty (2)Russia (3)Russian Empire (1)Senegal (1)Soviet Union (1)Spain (2)Sweden (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (14)BirthplaceAllBeijing (2)Bengaluru (1)Buenos Aires (1)Chennai (1)Chicago (1)Coventry (1)Empire of Japan (1)France (1)Germany (1)Hakodate (1)Havana (1)India (1)Ismailia (1)Kyiv (1)Madurai (1)Newark, New Jersey (1)Omaha (1)Phnom Penh (1)Pittsburgh (2)Porto-Novo (1)Riga (1)Rome (1)Russia (2)Russian Empire (1)Saint Petersburg (2)San Francisco (1)Seoul (1)Soviet Union (1)Spain (2)St. Louis (1)Strasbourg (1)Sweden (1)Tokyo (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (5)Art Form PracticedAllBallet (2)Dance (36)Film (1)Mime (1)Music (6)Opera (2)Performance Art (1)Theatre (5)GenderAllFemale (24)Male (20)GroupAllBallets Russes Artists (5)Butoh Dancers (2)Classical and Romantic Ballet Dancers (3)Film and Broadway Dancers (4)Flamenco Dancers (2)Indian Classical Dancers (4)Modern Dance Pioneers (10)Peking Opera Performers (2)Stage and Film Actors (4)Twentieth-Century Ballerinas (2)World and Traditional Dancers (4)Birth DecadeAll1872 (1)1889 (1)1894 (1)1919 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 44Alicia AlonsoDance and Theatre PerformersAlvin AileyDance and Theatre PerformersAnna MagnaniDance and Theatre PerformersAnna PavlovaDance and Theatre PerformersAntonio GadesDance and Theatre PerformersBalasaraswatiDance and Theatre PerformersCarmen AmayaDance and Theatre PerformersCheng YanqiuDance and Theatre PerformersChoi Seung-heeDance and Theatre PerformersEllen TerryDance and Theatre PerformersFred AstaireDance and Theatre PerformersGene KellyDance and Theatre PerformersGeorge BalanchineDance and Theatre PerformersGermaine AcognyDance and Theatre PerformersGinger RogersDance and Theatre PerformersIsadora DuncanDance and Theatre PerformersJosephine BakerDance and Theatre PerformersJuan Carlos CopesDance and Theatre PerformersKatherine DunhamDance and Theatre PerformersKazuo OhnoDance and Theatre PerformersKonstantin StanislavskiDance and Theatre PerformersLoie FullerDance and Theatre PerformersMarcel MarceauDance and Theatre PerformersMargot FonteynDance and Theatre PerformersMarie TaglioniDance and Theatre PerformersMartha GrahamDance and Theatre PerformersMei LanfangDance and Theatre PerformersMerce CunninghamDance and Theatre PerformersMichel FokineDance and Theatre PerformersMikhail BaryshnikovDance and Theatre PerformersNorodom Buppha DeviDance and Theatre PerformersPina BauschDance and Theatre PerformersRam GopalDance and Theatre PerformersRudolf NureyevDance and Theatre PerformersRukmini Devi ArundaleDance and Theatre PerformersRuth St. DenisDance and Theatre PerformersSada YaccoDance and Theatre PerformersSarah BernhardtDance and Theatre PerformersSergei DiaghilevDance and Theatre PerformersTahia CariocaDance and Theatre PerformersTatsumi HijikataDance and Theatre PerformersTwyla TharpDance and Theatre PerformersUday ShankarDance and Theatre PerformersVaslav NijinskyDance and Theatre PerformersSources1. National Core Arts Standards: Theatre Introductiontier 1National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsArticle textQuote, Article textDrama processes encompass envisioned worlds and unscripted activities designed to engage students in a wide range of real and imagined issues; theatre includes the broader and more traditional conventions of the craft that have been developed over the centuries-scripted plays, acting, public performance, and stagecraft.View the Source2. National Core Arts Standards: Dance Introductiontier 1National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsDance introduction, scope statementQuote, Dance introduction, scope statementThe National Core Arts Standards in Dance are designed to enable students to achieve dance literacy.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.