Bayo Ogunlesi

Fierstein is the gravelly-voiced Broadway veteran who most recently appeared in productions of Hairspray and Fiddler on the Roof.

The Nobel Prize-winning former CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Varmus is the Director of the National Cancer Institute.

Tony Gotto is the dean and medical provost of Weill Cornell Medical College. He's also a world-renowned researcher and a leading authority on cardiovascular disease.

David Burke

Neil Sadick

Donatella Arpaia

Jacques Torres

Mitchell is the artistic director and founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, the country's leading African-American ballet company.

Avant-garde choreographer Elizabeth Streb is known for her athletic (and occasionally dangerous) dances.

Peter Martins

Armitage is a wildly experimental choreographer whose work fuses ballet and modern dance.

Ron K. Brown

Paul Taylor is one of America's most famous living choreographers, with the flammable temperament to match.

Richard Move

McKenzie has maintained the American Ballet Theater's rep as one of the world's premiere classical dance companies for decades.

Brown is a postmodern choreographer known for staging avant-garde performances in public spaces.

One of the most talked-about modern dance choreographers working today (and also one of the most controversial), Jones is the artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

The eminence gris of the dance world, Cunningham was one of the most acclaimed choreographers of his time. He passed away in 2009.

Jamison is the former artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and muse of the company's namesake.