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Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
American dancer
Michio Ito
Japanese choreographer
Anna Sokolow
American choreographer and dancer
Ruth St. Denis as Radha, 1908.
Ruth St. Denis
American dancer
Michael Flatley
Michael Flatley
American dancer
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer
Charles Weidman
American dancer
Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham
American dancer and choreographer
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Mark Morris
American dancer and choreographer
Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais
American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Helen Tamiris.
Helen Tamiris
American dancer and choreographer
Yvonne Rainer
American choreographer and filmmaker
Paul Taylor and Bettie de Jong
Paul Taylor
American dancer and choreographer
Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
Kurt Jooss
German dancer and choreographer
Shawn in Frohsinn
Ted Shawn
American dancer
José Limón
José Limón
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