| DEVALOIS | Blessington-born ballet dancer and choreographer, 1898-2001 (2,6) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, 1898-2001, ballerina born Edris Stannus (7) |
| NIJINSKY | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th Century (8) |
| RAMBERT | Marie ___, Warsaw-born ballet dancer and pedagogue who died in 1982 (7) |
| NUREYEV | Rudolf ---, Russian-born ballet dancer and longterm dance partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn (7) |
| ASHTON | Frederick, ballet dancer and choreographer born in 1904 (6) |
| MACMILLAN | Kenneth, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in 1929 (9) |
| LIFAR | Serge, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of 1950 ballet Phedre (5) |
| ROBERTHELPMANN | Knighted 20th-century Australian ballet dancer and choreographer (6,8) |
| RUDOLF | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| MASSINE | Leonide -, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who played Grischa Ljubov in 1948 film drama The Red Shoes (7) |
| GRAZIANO | ____ Di Prima, Italian dancer and choreographer who joined Strictly in 2018 (8) |
| BARYSHNIKOV | Mikhail ---, Soviet-born ballet dancer who defected to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in 1974 (11) |
| PANOV | Valeri, Belarus-born ballet dancer who resettled in Israel in 1974 (5) |
| DOWELL | British ballet dancer and former Director of the Royal Ballet, Anthony |
| SHEARER | Moira, Scottish ballet dancer and actress born in 1926 (7) |
| MAVIS | Canadian ballet dancer and teacher Staines |
| BALANCHINE | George, Russian-born ballet choreographer noted for collaborating with Igor Stravinsky (10) |
| BEJART | French-born dancer and choreographer who founded Ballet of the 20th Century (6) |
| OLGA | Ballet dancer and first wife of Pablo Picasso, the legendary artist would feature her in his works |
