Dame Alicia Markova (December 1, 1910 – December 2, 2004) DBE, DMus was the first English dancer to be titled a Prima Ballerina Assoluta.

Markova was born Lilian Alice Marks to well-off parents in the Finsbury Park district of London. Her father, Alfred, was Jewish, and her mother, Eileen, was a convert to Judaism.

Josephine (Josie) Sarah (Sadie) Marcus (born about 1861 - died December 19, 1944) was a professional dancer and actress who became best known as the wife of famed Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp. According to United States Census records, Josie was born in the state of New York about 1861, although the exact date and city of her birth are not known.

Allegra Kent (August 11, 1937) an American ballet dancer.

Arnie Zane (1948 - 1988) was the co-founder and co-artistic director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Compan. Zane was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography, and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk.

Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer and director.

Jerome Robbins born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz (October 11, 1918 - July 29, 1998) was an American Academy Award winning film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater. Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were On the Town, High Button Shoes, The King And I, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, Gypsy: A Musical Fable and Fiddler on the Roof.

Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 - January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City, famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his social influence.

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; born November 20, 1925) is a retired Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times. Maya Plisetskaya is a naturalized Spanish citizen.

Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow into a prominent family of Jewish artists. She went to school in Spitsbergen, where her father worked as an engineer

Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer.Born Milton Greenwald in New York City on the Lower East Side, the son of Abraham Greenwald, an immigrant barber, and his wife Lillian, Michael Kidd moved to Brooklyn with his family and attended New Utrecht High School there.

Nora Kaye (January 17, 1920 - February 28, 1987) was an American ballerina called the Duse of Dance after acclaimed actress Eleonora Duse. She also worked in films as a choreographer and producer.

Valery Panov (Валерий Панов [Шульман] - 12 March 1938 in Vitebsk, Belarus, then USSR) is a Russian-Jewish former ballet dancer and choreographer is today. Since the 1970s, he has been an Israeli citizen. Panovs original name was Schulmann. His Jewish origins may also aggravated his career in the Soviet Union.