Klauss Ribeiro Vianna (12 August 1928 – 12 April 1992) was a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and theater director.
[1] In 1944, he started taking classic ballet lessons with Carlos Leite and later, in 1949, with Maria Olenewa in São Paulo.
In 1952, he starts teaching dance in an improvised atelier in his own house, where he lived with his grandmother.
His first choreography was performed in Rio de Janeiro in 1957 and in 1959 he founded the Ballet Klauss Vianna.
In 1990, he publishes the book A dança (The dance), in which he compiles his ideas and choreographical techniques.