Top Ballet Dancers

30. Ivan Vasiliev

Ivan Vasiliev is a Russian ballet dancer. Born in Vladivostok, in 9 January 1989, he graduated from the Bielorussian Ballet School in 2006.

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29. Isabella Boylston

Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer who currently performs as a principal with the American Ballet Theatre.

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Michaela DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina.

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27. Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States after joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002.

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26. Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon OBE is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.

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25. John Neumeier

John Neumeier is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of Hamburg Ballet since 1973.

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24. Aurélie Dupont

Aurélie Dupont is a French ballet dancer who performed with the Paris Opera Ballet as an Étoile. She began her career in dance in 1983 when she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School.

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23. Svetlana Zakharova

Svetlana Zakharova is a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet and an étoile of the La Scala Theatre Ballet.

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22. Viktoria Tereshkina

Viktoria Tereshkina is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg.

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21. Gillian Murphy

Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Royal New Zealand Ballet.

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20. Alina Somova

Alina Somova is a Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg.

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19. Olga Smirnova

Olga Smirnova is a Russian ballet dancer who is currently a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. She has danced at venues across Europe as well as appearing in Beijing and Japan.

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18. Evgenia Obraztsova

Evgenia Obraztsova, born on 18 January 1984 in St. Petersburg, is a Russian ballerina. She is a Prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, and with the Mariinsky Ballet as well.

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17. Alessandra Ferri

Alessandra Ferri is an Italian prima ballerina. She danced with the Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and La Scala Theatre Ballet and as an international guest artist, before temporally retiring on 10 August 2007, aged 44, then returning in 2013.

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16. Roberto Bolle

Roberto Bolle is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet.

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15. Polina Semionova

Polina Semionova is a Russian ballet dancer who was previously a principal dancer and is currently principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York and with the Berlin State Ballet.

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14. Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and is a guest artist with The Royal Ballet and the Kirov Ballet and has performed all over the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia.

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13. Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell CBE is a retired English ballerina, and is currently one of the four judges on the BBC reality show Strictly Come Dancing.

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12. Tamara Rojo

Tamara Rojo CBE is a Spanish ballet dancer. She is the artistic director of the English National Ballet, as well as a lead principal dancer.

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11. Diana Vishneva

Diana Vishneva is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet.

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10. Sergei Polunin

Sergei Polunin is a Ukrainian ballet dancer, actor and model. As a freelance principal dancer, Polunin is guest artist at various theaters worldwide such as Royal Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theater.

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9. Marianela Nunez

Marianela Núñez is an Argentine ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, London.

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8. Ulyana Lopatkina

Ulyana Lopatkina is a Russian prima ballerina who performed with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1991-2017. She studied at the Vaganova Academy with Natalia Dudinskaya.

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7. Natalia Makarova

Natalia Makarova is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that “her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West.

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov, nicknamed "Misha", is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Vladimir Vasiliev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history.

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1. Carlos Acosta

Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE is a Cuban ballet dancer. He has danced with many companies including the English National Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.

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