Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Dance

WiR redlist index: Dance

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

See also: Wikidata list of missing articles on women in dance and Wikidata list of missing articles on women choreographers

This is a list under development of missing articles on women who may be (or may have been) notable for their contribution to the dance or dancing in various fields of endeavor.

Australia

• Padma Menon, artistic director, choreographer, dancer & teacher [1]
• Maggi Phillips, dance educator [2]
• Tina Yong, artistic director, choreographer and dancer [3]

Canada

• Nova Bhattacharya, choreographer and bharatnatyam dancer [4]
• Tara Birtwhistle, dance and associate artistic director, current page is a redirect to Royal Winnipeg Ballet
• Esie Mensah, dancer, choreographer [5] [6]

Georgia

• Raven Evans (born 1963)

India

• Chavara Parukutty‎
• Medha Hari
• Rina Jana
• Sahiti Ravali
• Sandra Pisharady‎
• Shinjini Kulkarni
• Sitara Thobani
• Urmila Nagar

Ireland

• Anne Maher co-founder of Ballet Ireland
• Mary Nunan
• Fiona Quilligan
• Patricia Crosbie
• Muriel Kelly ran the Abbey School of Ballet
• Patricia Ryan (dancer) founded National Ballet School and Company
• Brenda Springer founder of the Springer School of Dancing in Mallow
• Dr Adrienne Brown (dancer)
• Dr Catherine Foley founder of Dance Research Forum Ireland
• Catherine Young (dancer)
• Veronica Convery
• Agnes McConnell
• Ciara Sexton (dancer)

Japan

• Yukari Saito, Tokyo Ballet artistic director

Lithuania

• Aušra Gineitytė (born 1962), ballet dancer and pedagogue
• Tamara Kalibataitė (1926–2010), dancer and choreographer
• Elena Kepalaitė (born 1920), sculptor, painter and dancer
• Aira Naginevičiutė (born 1965), dancer, choreographer and teacher

New Zealand

• Jamie Bull - ONZM for services to the performing arts and the community, Impulse Dance [7], [8]
• Kirsten Dodgen - A member of the all-female hip-hop dance crew ReQuest Dance Crew under the auspices of choreographer Parris Goebel. She is best known for appearing in Justin Bieber's Sorry (Justin Bieber song) music video.

Singapore

• Kwok Min Yi, ballet dancer [9]

United Kingdom

• Fleur Darkin of Scottish Dance Theatre, choreographer

United States

• Carole Acuna
• Linda Gold [10], [11], [12]
• Ruth Ann Koesun
• Carolin Lugo, b. 1960, flamenco
• Billie Shaw, vaudeville dancer, music composer, and writer [13], played by Ann Miller in Radio City Revels, [14], [15]
• Ash Hazen (formerly Ashley R.T. Yergens)

Uruguay

• Nadia Mara
• Biovanna Martinatto