Active Years: 1952-today
Position: American postmodern dancer and choreographer.
Career Highlights: Jones is best known for his duets with choreographers Arnie Zane and Sheryl Sutton in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of his most recent works, Still/Here,received significant critical acclaim when it premiered in 1994. The piece was a culmination of several workshops across the [...]

Active Years: 1944-
Position: American dancer; director/choreographer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Career Highlights: Dedicating the piece to black women everywhere, Ailey created the solo Cry for Jamison. Her name has now become synonymous with the work.
Career Totals: Jamison was a star dancer in the Ailey company for fifteen years. She has also performed [...]

Active Years: 1946 -
Position: American tap dancer and choreographer
Career Highlights: Hines won the Tony Award for best actor in Jelly’s Last Jam in 1992. He was also nominated for best choreography.
Career Totals: Hines began tap dancing at age 5 and has appeared in commercials, movies and Broadway shows. He has been nominated for the [...]

Active Years: 1894-1991
Position: American dancer and choreographer, founder of  modern dance
Career Highlights: The 1940s were Graham’s most productive years. She created Letter to the World(1940), based on the life of Emily Dickinson, Deaths and Entrances (1943), Dark Meadow (1946), and Cave of the Heart(1946). She is best known for Appalachian Spring, created in 1944, which [...]

Active Years: 1878-1927
Position: American dancer and choreographer.
Career Highlights: Duncan’s first major piece and the one which laid out many of the principles she would espouse during the rest of her career was called The Dance of the Future. The dance-lecture piece won wide popularity and launched her career.
Career Totals: One of Duncan’s first ballets was [...]

Active Years: 1905-1993
Position: Dancer and choreographer for the theater and ballet
Career Highlights: Before revolutionizing the musical dance world with her choreography for Oklahoma!, de Mille created Rodeo(1942). Both captured the American spirit incorporating ballet with a folk dance style.
Career Totals: de Mille worked for American Ballet Theatre, founded her own dance group, and choreographed [...]

Active years: 1934-today
Position: American ballet dancer and choreographer.
Career Highlights: D’Amboise is known for his roles in some of the New York City Ballet’s greatest productions, including Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Apollo and Stars and Stripes. He also choreographed Tchaikovsky Suite (Nr. 2), which remains in the company’s repertory. D’Amboise’s film career includes hits such as the [...]

Active Years: 1919 -
Position: American dancer and choreographer
Career Highlights: As a virtuoso dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, Cunningham created the roles of March in Letter to the World and the Revivalist in Appalachian Spring. Now, after more than fifty years as a choreographer, he is hailed as the father of postmodern dance.
Career Totals: [...]

Active years: 1921-1980
Position: American dancer and choreographer for shows and television.
Career Highlights: Champion received eight Tony awards during his career. He is best known for the astounding list of Broadway shows that he created: Bye Bye Birdie(1960), Carnival (1961), Hello Dolly(1964) and 42nd Street (1980).
Career Totals: Champion danced in a team with Jeanne Tyler, who [...]

Active Years: 1948 -
Position: Russian born dancer and choreographer; founder and artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project
Career Highlights: One of the greatest dancers of the twentieth century, few have ever been able to match Baryshnikov’s technical expertise and powerful leaps. After his defection from Russia in 1974, Baryshnikov dazzled the dance world as [...]