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Born February 9, 1910 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died March 29, 2000 (aged 90) • New York City • New York
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
O'Connor, Donald
Donald O’Connor
American actor
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Helen Tamiris.
Helen Tamiris
American dancer and choreographer
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Hanya Holm
American choreographer
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Christopher Wheeldon
British-born dancer and choreographer
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Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
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Joseph Stein
American librettist
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
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Gower Champion
American dancer and choreographer
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
The King of Pop
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, and dancer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Mr. Entertainment
Sammy Davis, Jr.
American entertainer