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Born May 10, 1943 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died November 9, 2024 (aged 81) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (1999)

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Alvin Ailey, Jr.
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
American choreographer
Robert Battle
Robert Battle
American dancer and choreographer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell
American dancer
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Glen Tetley
American dancer
Lincoln Kirstein
American dance patron, writer, and businessman
Eliot Feld
American dancer
Joffrey, Robert; Arpino, Gerald
Robert Joffrey
American choreographer and director
Rosella Hightower
American ballerina
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell
American dancer