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• Kunwar Amarjeet Singh (born 16 March 1984) is Latest Modern dancer and choreographer from India. He is Known for his hip hop dancing styles, mainly Old-School Hip hop & for his Bollywood Style, especially Partner Dance or Group Dance . He is awarded as the Most talented Dancer in the Dance India Dance (Season 2) in the year 2010 . He is currently playing a role of Reyaansh Singhania in the TV Show Dil Dosti Dance, aired on Channel V .

• Malika (Mazol) Yashuvayevna Kolontarova (born September 5, 1950) is a legendary Tajik Bukharian Jewish dancer. She earned the titles of People's Artist of USSR, People's Artist of Tajikistan, and Honored Artist of Tajikistan—the highest titles given in her native nation. Her dance moves were completely in sync with the music and she conquered the world with her fiery dancing. She is married to Ishkak Gulkarov, a famous doira player and Honored Artist of Tajikistan and the two were Tajikistan's biggest supercouple. Since her move to the United States in the early 1990s, Kalontarova founded the "Malika International Dance School."

• Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (March 10, 1885 – May 26, 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina who eventually settled in England, where she helped found the Royal Academy of Dance in 1920 Karsavina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of the dancer Platon Karsavin. Beautiful and talented from an early age, Karsavina quickly moved through the ranks of professional ballet.Her most famous roles were Lise in La Fille Mal Gardée, Medora in Le Corsaire, and the Tsar Maiden in The Little Humpbacked Horse. She was the first Ballerina to dance in the so-called Le Corsaire Pas de Deux in 1915.The choreographer George Balanchine said he had fond memories of watching her when he was a student at the Imperial Ballet School.

• Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an Academy Award-winning American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th-century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin’ in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid-1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15.

• Alonzo King is an American dancer and choreographer working in San Francisco, California. He is known for founding a contemporary ballet company, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, in 1982.Alonzo King began his ballet training in Santa Barbara, California with June Lane and moved to New York City to continue his artistic development. He trained at the Harkness School of Ballet and the Alvin Ailey dance school. While attending the American Ballet Theatre School on full scholarship, he studied with Patricia Wilde and Leon Danelian; he was also on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet where he trained with Stanley Williams and Richard Rapp. In New York, King performed with the Harkness Youth Company, apprenticed with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and danced with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Donald McKayle, Lucas Hoving, and a number of European companies. After returning from New York, he danced with Bella Lewitzky in Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco.

• Beyoncé Knowles (born September 4, 1981), more commonly known by her first name Beyoncé,is an African-American female singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer and actress. She is a former member of the now separated girl singing group Destiny's Child, later called DC3. She is famous for her vocal talents and abilities, and also for her iconic and influential dancing. Her dance abilities are seen in her music videos for her anthemic singles "Crazy in Love", "Single Ladies" and "Sweet Dreams". Beyoncé is often seen dancing to songs around the R&B, Pop and "Hip Hop". Audiences around the world recognize Beyoncé for her unique dancing techniques.

• Jiří Kylián (born 1947) is a Czech dance choreographer .Kylián studied in Prague, as well as at the Royal Ballet School in London. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under John Cranko, where he began to choreograph. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theatre in 1976. His style is very energetic and contemporary and his best known works include Symphony of Psalms (1978).

• Maria Kochetkova (born 1984 in Moscow) is a Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. Kochetkova studied at the Bolshoi School in Moscow, and danced with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet.

• Akshay Koparkar He started his dancing at the age of 11.He famous in nagpur, India for his break dance.He is famous for his amazing Moonwalk And Breakdance.Also he is famous for his break moves like biggest entertainer Michael Jackson.He completed his 28 dance shows.His style include Hip-Hop, Locking And Popping, Freestyles