Irina Vladimirovna Dvorovenko is a Ukrainian-American retired ballet dancer and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diana Vishneva</span> Russian ballet dancer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Diana_Vishneva_22_February_2007.jpg)
Diana Viktorovna Vishneva is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet.
Janie Taylor is an American ballet dancer, répétiteur and costume designer. She joined New York City Ballet in 1998, was promoted to principal dancer in 2005 and left in 2014. She then started designing costumes and staging works by Justin Peck and Benjamin Millepied, before performing again as a member of the L.A. Dance Project.
Amar Ramasar is an American ballet dancer and former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet (NYCB). Ramasar joined the NYCB as an apprentice in 2000 and joined the corps de ballet in 2001. As of 2010, Ramasar remained the only person of color who was a principal in NYCB.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tiler Peck</span> American ballet dancer (born 1989)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tiler_Peck_for_Swans_for_Relief.jpg/320px-Tiler_Peck_for_Swans_for_Relief.jpg)
Tiler Kalyn Peck is an American ballet dancer who is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. As well as ballet, she has performed in musical theatre shows and has made cameo appearances in films including Donnie Darko and television series including Tiny Pretty Things.
Kyra Nichols is an American retired ballet dancer and teacher. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1974 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1979. She is one of the last dancers to have worked with George Balanchine, although he did not create any new work on her. However, she originated roles in several ballets by Jerome Robbins. Nichols retired from performing in 2007, after a 33-year career.
Miranda Weese is an American former ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1993 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1996. In 2007, she left to perform with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, first as a guest artist, then joined the company as a principal dancer, before retiring in 2010. In 2017, she joined the Boston Ballet as a children's ballet master.
Carla Körbes is a Brazilian ballet dancer who performed as a principal dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, then became the associate artistic director of L.A Dance Project. She is now an associate professor at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's ballet faculty.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silas Farley</span> American ballet dancer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Silas_Farley_speaks_to_Church_of_the_Heavenly_Rest.jpg/320px-Silas_Farley_speaks_to_Church_of_the_Heavenly_Rest.jpg)
Silas Farley is an American ballet dancer, choreographer and educator. He danced at the New York City Ballet between 2013 and 2020, and choreographed outside the company. In 2021, he became the dean of Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Justin Peck</span> American choreographer, director, and dancer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Justin_Peck%2C_May_2018.jpg/320px-Justin_Peck%2C_May_2018.jpg)
Justin Peck is an American choreographer, director, and dancer associated with New York City Ballet, of which he was appointed Resident Choreographer in July 2014, being the second person in the history of the institution to hold this title. In 2018 he won the Tony Award for Best Choreography for his work on the third Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. Peck also choreographed the 2021 Steven Spielberg film West Side Story, an adaptation of the musical.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aesha Ash</span> American ballet dancer and teacher](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Aesha_Ash_Rochester_Central_Library_2018.jpg/320px-Aesha_Ash_Rochester_Central_Library_2018.jpg)
Aesha Ash is an American ballet dancer and teacher. She danced numerous leading roles as a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet and as a soloist with Béjart Ballet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Following her retirement from performing, she founded The Swan Dreams Project in 2011 to dispel stereotypes about Black women in ballet. In 2020, she became the first African American female faculty member at the School of American Ballet.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lauren Lovette</span> American ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1991)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Lauren_Lovette_on_Vogue.jpg/320px-Lauren_Lovette_on_Vogue.jpg)
Lauren Lovette is an American ballet dancer and choreographer who was previously a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
Georgina Pazcoguin is an American ballerina. She is a soloist with the New York City Ballet, and is known for challenging racism in ballet, and for performing on Broadway.
Karen Brown is an American ballerina, educator, répétiteur, ballet mistress, and director. She is noted for her long career as a principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and as the first African-American woman to lead a ballet company.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilhelm Burmann</span> German dancer, ballet master, and teacher (1939–2020)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Wilhelm_Burmann.jpeg)
Wilhelm "Willy" Burmann was a German dancer, ballet master, and teacher.
Indiana Woodward is a French ballet dancer. She joined the New York City Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2021.
Arlene Shuler is an American arts administrator and former ballet dancer. She is the president and chief executive of the New York City Center.
Roman Mejia is an American ballet dancer. He joined the New York City Ballet in 2017, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2023.