Hanna BergerW
Hanna Berger

Hanna Berger was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, theatre director, writer and lifelong anti-Nazi.

Gertrud BodenwieserW
Gertrud Bodenwieser

Gertrud Bodenwieser, also known as "Gertrude", was a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of expressive dance.

Arik BrauerW
Arik Brauer

Arik Brauer is an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer, and stage designer. He resides in Vienna and Ein Hod, Israel. Brauer is a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Fritz Janschka, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden.

Poldi DurW
Poldi Dur

Poldi Dur (1917–1996) was an Austrian dancer and stage actress. She also appeared in several films. She was born in Vienna as Elisabeth Handl.

Fanny ElsslerW
Fanny Elssler

Fanny Elssler was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period.

Therese ElsslerW
Therese Elssler

Therese Elssler was a dancer.

Saskia HölblingW
Saskia Hölbling

Saskia Hölbling is an Austrian choreographer and dancer

Hilde HolgerW
Hilde Holger

Hilde Boman-Behram was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance.

Katti LannerW
Katti Lanner

Katti Lanner was a Viennese ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet mistress who found fame in Germany and England, where she staged many productions at the Empire Theatre in London.

Susi LannerW
Susi Lanner

Susi Lanner was an Austrian film actress who played major roles in German productions from 1932 to 1937.

Maria Ley-PiscatorW
Maria Ley-Piscator

Maria Ley-Piscator is best known as the wife of Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), Germany's famous left-wing theater director. Born on 1 August 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Maria Ley sought to create a theatrical career for herself as a dancer in Paris and Berlin. Later, she turned to choreography and helped in several stage productions with Max Reinhardt, including A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Tilly LoschW
Tilly Losch

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, known professionally as Tilly Losch, was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress, and painter who lived and worked for most of her life in the United States and United Kingdom.

Kathrin MenzingerW
Kathrin Menzinger

Kathrin Menzinger is an Austrian dancer

Samy MolchoW
Samy Molcho

Samy Molcho is an Israeli mime and an expert in body language communication. He was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts and at Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria until 2004.

Albertina RaschW
Albertina Rasch

Albertina Rasch was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer.

Gisela TaglichtW
Gisela Taglicht

Gisela Taglicht was a notable New Zealand rhythmical dance and gymnastics teacher.

Ellinor TordisW
Ellinor Tordis

Ellinor Tordis was an Austrian dancer and dance educator in Vienna in the 1920s.

Eva Marie VeigelW
Eva Marie Veigel

Eva Marie Veigel was a dancer and the wife of actor David Garrick.

Margarete WallmannW
Margarete Wallmann

Margarete Wallmann or Wallman was a ballerina, choreographer, stage designer, and opera director.

Cilli WangW
Cilli Wang

Zäzilie Wang, stage name Cilli Wang, was an Austrian-born Dutch dancer, performer and theatre maker. Wang initially was known as a dancer and later as a comedian in Austria and Germany. When Austria merged into the Greater German Reich, she fled to the Netherlands and asked for asylum. After World War II she played in several Dutch cabaret groups and made solo performances into the 1970s.

Grete WiesenthalW
Grete Wiesenthal

Grete Wiesenthal was a member of the corps de ballet of the Hofoper in Vienna. Gustav Mahler was responsible for giving her the role of 'Fenella' in La Muette de Portici in 1907. This caused a great scandal and eventually led to Mahler's resignation, as in doing so, he had undermined the ballet master, Hassreiter.