The Most Famous

Dancers from Germany

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This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Dancers. The pantheon dataset contains 116 Dancers, 3 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 8th most number of Dancers behind Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Top 3 Dancers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Germans Dancers of all time. This list of famous Germans Dancers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Pina Bausch

    Pina Bausch

    1940 - 2009

    HPI 73.0945 langs

    Pina Bausch was a German choreographer who is most famous for her avant-garde and expressionistic style of dance.

  2. #2
    Photo of Mary Wigman

    Mary Wigman

    1886 - 1973

    HPI 65.3224 langs

    Mary Wigman was a German dancer and choreographer. She is most famous for her work with Expressionist dance in the early 20th century.

Overlapping Lives

Which Dancers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Dancers since 1700.

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