* August 22 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer ( b. 1880 )

It led Diaghilev to create his famous company the Ballets Russes with choreographer Michel Fokine and designer Léon Bakst.

To present these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

He worked together with the choreographer Michel Fokine to create the ballet Les Sylphides.

Throughout the spring and summer of 1982, the Ceroc troupe worked with choreographer Michel Ange Lau, whose classes Cronin and Sylvia Coleman had attended at the Centre Charles Peguy, a French youth centre, in Leicester Square.

Michel Fokine ( a French transliteration ; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin ;, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín ) ( – 22 August 1942 ) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.

To present these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Benois collaborated with the choreographer Michel Fokine, drawing from several books of Russian fairy tales including the collection of Alexander Afanasyev, to concoct a story involving the Firebird and the evil magician Kashchei.

* Michel Descombey, ballet dancer and choreographer, born 1930

Diaghilev planned a production with his Ballets Russes but the production did not take place ; the company's choreographer Fokine staged L ' apprenti sorcier as a ballet in 1916.

In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev invited Fokine to become the choreographer of his Ballets Russes in Paris.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

Before Star Trek: The Next Generation, McFadden often worked for Jim Henson productions, including the films The Dark Crystal ( as choreographer ), Labyrinth ( as Director of Choreography and Puppet Movement ), The Muppets Take Manhattan ( choreographer and a brief on-screen appearance ), and uncredited work on Dreamchild ( again supervising choreography and puppet movement ).

Hong Kong based fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping is famed for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Matrix trilogy, in which the often unrealistic fighting techniques are complemented by directorial techniques such as bullet time.

Although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (; born January 27, 1948 ), nicknamed " Misha ", is a Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history.

As choreographer, Berkeley was allowed a certain degree of independence in his direction of musical numbers, and they were often markedly distinct from ( and sometimes in contrast to ) the narrative sections of the films.

There is often a resident choreographer.

His earlier kung fu movies were often done in collaboration with choreographer ( and future director ) Lau Kar Leung, who Chang had worked with, along with choreographer Tong Gaai, on earlier films.

* Claude Balon ( also Ballon, often incorrectly named Jean ) ( c1671 – 1744 ), a German dancer and choreographer

She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.

Claude Balon ( also Ballon, often incorrectly named Jean ) ( 1671 – 1744 ) was a French dancer and choreographer.

In 1870, the novel was adapted for a ballet titled Trilby by the great choreographer Marius Petipa, balletmaster of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia.

( the Muppet Theater's Christmas " Spectacular Spectacular " opens with a number set at the " Moulin Scrooge ," which climaxes as Miss Piggy dons the role of Satine and performs " Santa Baby "), Cirque du Soleil ( feebly adapted by an apathetic choreographer as the " Cirque du So Lame "), A Beautiful Mind ( when Dr. Honeydew works out the money needed to save the theater's finances by doodling on a window, and, after listening to Beaker squeak, responds, " Why, thank you, Beaky, I think you have a beautiful mind, too "), For Dummies books ( Daniel is given a book called Performing Miracles for Dummies ), and the old Gift of the Magi comedy routine ( coming to a crashing halt in this film when one of the participants forgot to sell or buy anything ).

Originally developed in the 1970s by choreographer Mary Overlie as a method of movement improvisation, The Viewpoints theory was adapted for stage acting by directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau.

Playford was not the author or choreographer of these dances ; he was a music publisher, for whom dance manuals were a profitable sideline.

In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R & B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s.

" The success of the choreography in the video led to Abdul's career of choreographer in music videos.

* November 25 – Bruno Tonioli, Film, music video & theater choreographer

In 2004 the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Boston Camerata music director Joel Cohen created a live performance work with dance and music entitled " Borrowed Light.

In 2004, post-modern choreographer David Gordon created a dance-theatre version of the play called Dancing Henry Five, which mixed William Walton's music written for the Olivier film, recorded speeches from the film itself and by Christopher Plummer, and commentary written by Gordon.

Atkinson emphasized Agnes De Mille's contributions as choreographer: " Some of the dances are merely illustrations for the music.

In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics.

The production team included a young Sam Mendes as director, with Anthony Ward as designer, Matthew Bourne as choreographer, Martin Koch as music supervisor and William David Brohn as orchestrator.

In Vienna, Gluck met likeminded figures in the operatic world: Count Giacomo Durazzo, the head of the court theatre, who was a passionate admirer of French stage music ; the librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi, who wanted to attack the dominance of Metastasian opera seria ; the innovative choreographer Gasparo Angiolini ; and the London-trained castrato Gaetano Guadagni.

" He said screenwriter Helen Deutsch had " put together a frankly fanciful romance with clarity, humor, and lack of guile ," and admires the choreographer, sets, music, and title song.

The original three judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell.

During the auditions, Kander met the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, who suggested that Kander compose the dance music for the show in 1959.

He was a choreographer known for his musicality ; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky.

Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt's ballet Salome with music by Peter Maxwell Davies premiered in 1978.

At the age of sixteen he was sent by his piano teacher Grete Sultan for lessons in composition with new music composer John Cage and quickly became a close associate of Cage and his artistic circle, which included fellow composers Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, pianist David Tudor, and dancer / choreographer Merce Cunningham.

To create a round dance, a piece of music is selected by the choreographer, and the different steps or figures are chosen to fit the music.

In the late 19th century, Marius Petipa, Russian ballet choreographer and dance, worked with composers such as Cesare Pugni to create ballet masterpieces that boasted both complex dance and complex music.

Martha Graham ( May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991 ) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.

In 1975 Ann Hutchinson-Guest reconstructed the choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon's Pas de Six from his 1844 ballet La Vivandière along with its original music by the composer Cesare Pugni, for the Joffrey Ballet.

In 1961 the American choreographer James Waring created a dance piece entitled Dithyramb with music and objects by the Fluxus artist George Brecht.