| NIJINSKY | Vaslav -; Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (8) |
| LIFAR | Serge, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of 1950 ballet Phedre (5) |
| MASSINE | Leonide -, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who played Grischa Ljubov in 1948 film drama The Red Shoes (7) |
| NUREYEV | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| RUDOLF | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| DEVALOIS | Ninette _ _, Irish-born British ballet dancer and choreographer; established the Royal Ballet (2,6) |
| ROBERTHELPMANN | Knighted 20th-century Australian ballet dancer and choreographer (6,8) |
| ASHTON | Frederick ___ (1904 - 88), ballet dancer and choreographer, knighted in 1962 (6) |
| MACMILLAN | Kenneth, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in 1929 (9) |
| GRAZIANO | ____ Di Prima, Italian dancer and choreographer who joined Strictly in 2018 (8) |
| DOWELL | British ballet dancer and former Director of the Royal Ballet, Anthony |
| SERGEI | Russian ballet dancer Polunin |
| ULANOVA | Galina --, Russian ballet dancer (7) |
| MIKHAILBARYSHNIKOV | Russian ballet dancer who defected to Canada in 1974 |
| PAVLOVA | Famous Russian ballet dancer (7) |
| RAMBERT | Dame Marie --, Polish-born ballet dancer and teacher (7) |
| MAVIS | Canadian ballet dancer and teacher Staines |
| SHEARER | Moira, Scottish ballet dancer and actress born in 1926 (7) |
| AFTERNOON | The - of a Faun; English name of L'Apres-midi d'un faune, a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky |
| HAVEL | Czech leader Vaslav |
