Danseur noble

A danseur noble traditionally was a male ballet dancer who projected great nobility of character. Over the last century, the term has been used to define a male principal dancer who performs at the highest theatrical level combining grace with ability. Some use danseur noble as the masculine equivalent to a Prima Ballerina, or to refer to the male partner of a ballerina during a pas de deux.

Historical and retired

 * Gaétan Vestris
 * Charles Le Picq
 * Vaslav Nijinsky
 * Léonide Massine
 * Serge Lifar
 * Adolph Bolm
 * Mikhail Mordkin
 * Anton Dolin
 * Theodore Kosloff
 * Pavel Gerdt
 * Vakhtang Chabukiani
 * Pyotr Gusev
 * Asaf Messerer
 * Roman Jasiński
 * Igor Youskevitch
 * Vasily Tikhomirov
 * Aleksey Yermolayev
 * Nikolai Fadeyechev
 * Sergei Filin
 * Askold Makarov
 * Konstantin Sergeyev
 * Erik Bruhn
 * Rudolf Nureyev
 * Edward Villella
 * Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
 * Nicolas Le Riche
 * Carlos Acosta
 * Jean Guizerix
 * Vladimir Vasiliev
 * Cyril Atanassoff
 * Mikhail Baryshnikov
 * Henning Kronstam
 * Jacques d'Amboise
 * Fernando Bujones
 * Robert Helpmann
 * Michael Somes
 * Reid Anderson
 * Anthony Dowell
 * Wayne Eagling
 * José Martinez
 * Ivan Nagy
 * Peter Martins
 * Laurent Hilaire
 * Julio Bocca
 * Nikolay Tsiskaridze
 * Manuel Legris
 * Johan Kobborg
 * Ethan Stiefel
 * Tamas Detrich
 * Maris Liepa
 * Yuri Soloviev
 * Alexander Godunov
 * Irek Mukhamedov
 * Farukh Ruzimatov
 * Vladimir Malakhov

Current

 * Roberto Bolle
 * Mikhail Baryshnikov
 * José Manuel Carreño
 * David Hallberg
 * Marcelo Gomes
 * Vladimir Yaroshenko
 * Federico Bonelli
 * Sergei Polunin
 * Thiago Soares
 * Rupert Pennefather
 * Igor Zelensky
 * Mathieu Ganio
 * Stéphane Bullion
 * Evan McKie
 * Matthew Golding
 * Igor Kolb
 * Leonid Sarafanov
 * Vladimir Shklyarov
 * Friedemann Vogel
 * Vadim Muntagirov