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Born August 29, 1956 (age 68) • Seattle • Washington
Founder Mark Morris Dance Group
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
Kurt Jooss
German dancer and choreographer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
American dancer
Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham
American dancer and choreographer
Justin Peck
Justin Peck
American choreographer and dancer
Michael Flatley
Michael Flatley
American dancer
Anna Sokolow
American choreographer and dancer
Glen Tetley
American dancer
William Forsythe
William Forsythe
American choreographer
Ruth St. Denis as Radha, 1908.
Ruth St. Denis
American dancer
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer
Charles Weidman
American dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer