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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
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
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
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance 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
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Karen Kain
Canadian ballet dancer
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
Charles Walters
American dancer, choreographer, and film director
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Lester Horton
American dancer and choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Nijinsky in Paris
Vaslav Nijinsky
Russian dancer
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Irene Castle
American dancer
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Vernon Castle
American dancer
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Michael Kidd
American choreographer and dancer
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Gower Champion
American dancer and choreographer
Paula Abdul smiling on the red carpet, wearing a black dress with sparkling jeweled embellishments and long, wavy hair, at the 2019 American Music Awards.
Paula Abdul
American singer, dancer, and choreographer
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
American dancer
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Rukmini Devi Arundale
Indian dancer and theosophist