Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Dancer Mary Verdi-Fletcher founded Cleveland-based Dancing Wheels in 1980 as the US’s first professional dance company to include dancers with and without disabilities.
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Margaret Scott
Dame Margaret Scott founded the Australian Ballet School in 1963.
Peou Khatna
Cambodian dancer and choreographer
Vanessa Sanchez y La Mezcla
Vanessa Sanchez’s work as a dancer, choreographer, and founding artistic director of the dance group La Mezcla is born from deep engagement with the music and dance traditions of the Latinx and Afro-Latinx diaspora.
Joan Moriarty
Irish traditional musician, step dancer, ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and founder of professional ballet in Ireland
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
An exceptional dancer, vocalist, teacher, and award-winning choreographer in the Cambodian classical dance form. A master artist of the 1,000-year-old tradition, Shapiro was a member of the first generation to graduate from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after the fall of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Norma Miller
Norma Miller is one of the creators of the acrobatic style of swing dancing known as the Lindy Hop.
Anjani Ambegaokar
Anjani Ambegaokar came to the United States in 1967 from her native India and went on to become the most well known dancer, choreographer, and educator of Kathak in the nation.
Miriam Cole
Modern dancer, choreographer and teacher
Pola Nirenska
Modern dancer and choreographer