WFernando Anuang'a Kenyan Dancer and Choreographer, born in October 12, 1972 in Kanyaboli who specializes in traditional Maasai dance and development of traditional dance and Afro contemporary dance. He was raised in Kitengela and Magadi in the early 1980s and that's where he developed interest in Maasai dance and tradition.
WJérôme Bel is a French dancer and choreographer, whose characteristic choreographic style is known as non-dance, typified by his 2001 piece The Show Must Go On.
WClaude Brumachon is a French choreographer and dancer in contemporary dance. In 1984 he founded his own company, the Compagnie Claude Brumachon. Since 1992, he has been co-directing the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes, with Benjamin Lamarche.
WAnne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker is a contemporary dance choreographer. The dance company constructed around her, Rosas, was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007.
WJefta van Dinther is a Dutch-Swedish choreographer and dancer. Today van Dinther lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.
WHallgrim Hansegård is a Norwegian choreographer and dancer whose background is rooted in his traditional halling dance training and contemporary dance. He is also known for leading a trio of dancers who danced alongside Alexander Rybak onstage at The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 which his country won.
WChristian Haring is an Austrian Dancer and Choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of the dance compagnie Liquid Loft.
WHeike Hennig is a German dancer, choreographer and director of the opera and dance ensemble "Heike Hennig & Co".
WSaskia Hölbling is an Austrian choreographer and dancer
WKaori Ito (伊藤郁女)(born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer who is active in France. She founded the dance company Hime.
WBettie de Jong is a Dutch rehearsal director and former lead dancer at the Paul Taylor Dance Company. In November 2007 Bettie de Jong received the Dance Magazine Award to recognize her contributions to dance.
WAkram Hossain Khan, MBE is an English dancer and choreographer of Bangladeshi descent. His background is rooted in his classical kathak training and contemporary dance.
WFaustin Linyekula is a Congolese dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance. His works are structured along the lines of the dance form Ndombolo and its associated music and address "the legacy of decades of war, terror, fear and the collapse of the economy for himself, his family and his friends."
WCecilia Lugo is a Mexican contemporary dancer and choreographer. She has participated in groups such as INBA's National Dance Company and the Ballet Folklórico de México.
WVincent Mantsoe is a South African dancer and choreographer. Raised in the Soweto township outside Johannesburg, he combines the street dance of his childhood with traditional and contemporary dance styles. Spirituality and the cultural influences of African, Aboriginal Australian, Asian, contemporary, and ballet traditions are important influences on Mantsoe's work. He is also the founder of Association Noa.
WAna Clara Guerra Marques is an Angolan professional dancer.
WDada Masilo is a South African dancer and choreographer, known for her unique and innovative interpretations of classical ballets. Trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance, Masilo fuses these techniques with African dance steps to create her high-speed style. She was born and raised in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. Although she is interested more in the personal challenge of choreography than political statements, her pieces often address taboos such as homosexuality and race relations.
WDominique Mercy is a French contemporary dancer. He has been a member, since 1974, of the Tanztheater Wuppertal company of Pina Bausch as well as a choreographer in his own right.
WOhad Naharin is an Israeli contemporary dancer and choreographer. He served as artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company from 1990; he stepped down in 2018.
WSol Picó Monllor is a Spanish dancer and choreographer. She has studied Spanish dance, ballet, and contemporary dance, and combines different techniques and languages in her productions in a groundbreaking way. In 1993 she created the Sol Picó Company, with which she has become one of the most heterodox choreographers and dancers of the Spanish contemporary scene. She has received numerous awards, including 10 Premios Max, the National Dance Award of Catalonia (2004), the City of Barcelona Dance Award (2015) and the National Dance Award of Spain (2016).
WInbal Pinto an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer, Director, designer. Artistic director of the “Inbal Pinto dance Company”
WAngelin Preljoçaj is a French dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance.
WTero Kalevi Saarinen is a Finnish dance artist and choreographer, and Artistic Director of Tero Saarinen Company. Saarinen has made a prominent international career as both a dancer and choreographer.
WSasha Alexandra Waltz is a German choreographer, dancer, leader of the dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests, and artistic director designate of the Berlin State Ballet, alongside Johannes Ohman, effective 2019.
WS. Ama Wray, known formally as Sheron Wray, is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and theatre director. She studied under Jane Dudley at the London Contemporary Dance School, later performing with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Rambert Dance Company, and forming her own company JazzXchange in 1992. She presently is associate professor of dance at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine.
WVahram Zaryan is a French performance artist, mime, dancer, director, and choreographer of Armenian descent.