An irreplaceable dance treasure is a person who has: - Made a significant impact on dance as an art form - Demonstrated artistic excellence - Enriched the nation's cultural heritage - Demonstrated the potential to enhance the lives of future generations - Shown itself worthy of national and international recognition.
· Ailey, Alvin, Jr., modern dancer and choreographer MD 1785 .A34
· Alonso, Alicia, ballerina and choreographer MD 1785 .A46
· Ashley, Merrill, ballerina MD 1785 .A82
· Ashton, Sir Frederick, choreographer and dancer MD 1785 .A83
· Astaire, Fred, dancer MD 1785 .A87
· Balanchine, George, choreographer and ballet dancer MD 1785 .B35
· Baryshnikov, Mikhail, dancer and choreographer MD 1785 .B37
· Bausch, Pina, dancer and choreographer MD 1785 .B38
- Béjart, Maurice, ballet dancer and opera director MD 1785 .B44
· Bolger, Ray, dancer, actor
· Bournonville, Auguste, dancer
· Brothers, The Nicholas, dancers, actors
· Brown, Trisha, modern dancer and choreographer
· Bruhn, Erik, ballet dancer
· Bujones, Fernando, ballet dancer
· Caron, Leslie, dancer, actress
· Castle, Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe), and Irene Foote, husband-and-wife dance team
· Clercq, Tanaquil Le, ballerina
· Cunningham, Merce, modern dancer and choreographer
· d'Amboise, Jacques, dancer and choreographer
· Danilova, Alexandra, ballerina
· de Mille, Agnes, choreographer and dancer
· Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich, ballet impresario and art critic
· Dolin, Sir Anton, ballet dancer and choreographer
· Duncan, Isadora, dancer
· Dunham, Katherine, dancer
· Eglevsky, André, dancer
· Elssler, Fanny, dancer
· Fagan, Garth, dancer and choreographer
· Farrell, Suzanne, ballet dancer
· Flatley, Michael, dancer, choreographer
· Fokine, Michel, choreographer and ballet dancer
· Fonteyn, Dame Margot, ballerina
· Fosse, Bob, choreographer, dancer
· Fuller, Loie, dancer and theatrical innovator
· Graham, Martha, dancer
· Greco, José, dancer and choreographer
· Green, Chuck, tap dancer
· Helpmann, Sir Robert, dancer and choreographer
· Hines, Gregory, dancer, actor
· Horton, Lester, modern dancer
· Humphrey, Doris, modern dancer and choreographer
· Ito, Michio, dancer, choreographer
· Ivanov, Lev, dancer
· Jamison, Judith, dancer and choreographer
· Jones, Bill T., dancer and choreographer
· Jooss, Kurt, dancer
· Karsavina, Tamara, prima ballerina
· Kaye, Nora, ballerina
· Kelly, Gene, dancer
· Kirstein, Lincoln, dance and theater executive and writer
· Laban, Rudolf von, dancer
· Lang, Pearl, dancer and choreographer
· Lifar, Serge, dancer
· Limón, José, modern dancer, choreographer
· Makarova, Natalia, ballet dancer
· Marchowsky, Marie, choreographer, dancer
· Markova, Dame Alicia, ballerina
· Martins, Peter, ballet dancer and choreographer
· Massine, Léonide, choreographer and ballet dancer
· Mitchell, Arthur, dancer
· Moiseyev, Igor Alexsandrovich, dancer and choreographer
· Monk, Meredith Jane, dancer
· Morris, Mark, dancer and choreographer
· Nijinska, Bronislava, ballet dancer and choreographer
· Nijinsky, Vaslav, ballet dancer and choreographer
· Nikolais, Alwin, dancer and choreographer
· Nureyev, Rudolf, ballet dancer
· Pavlova, Anna Matveyevna, ballerina
· Perrot, Jules, dancer and choreographer
· Petipa, Marius, dancer and choreographer
· Petit, Roland, dancer and choreographer
· Plisetskaya, Maya, dancer
· Prowse, Juliet, dancer
· Rambert, Dame Marie, a founder of the ballet
· Reinking, Ann, dancer, choreographer, actor
· Robbins, Jerome, choreographer and dancer
· Sokolova, Lydia, ballerina
· St. Denis, Ruth, dancer
· Taglioni, Maria, ballerina
· Tallchief, Maria, ballerina
· Tapps, Georgie, tap dancer
· Taylor, Paul, modern dance choreographer
· Tetley, Glen, modern dancer and choreographer
· Tharp, Twyla, dancer and choreographer
· Tudor, Antony, choreographer and dancer
· Tune, Tommy, dancer
· Ulanova, Galina, ballerina
· Valois, Dame Ninette de, ballet director
· Verdon, Gwen, dancer, actor
· Vestris, Gaetan, classical dancer
· Villella, Edward, ballet dancer
· Weidman, Charles, modern dancer and choreographer
· Wigman, Mary, dancer MD 1785 .W53
· Youskevitch, Igor, ballet dancer.
· Zemach, Benjamin, dancer, choreographer
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