Timeline: Dance
| Years: c. 600 BCE - 1997 | Subject: Performing arts, Dance |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191736995 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 600 BCE | Go to chōrus (‘dance’) in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dionysus in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1581 | Go to ballet de cour in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1653 | Go to Louis XIV (1638–1715) in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1661 | Go to Louis XIV (1638–1715) in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1681 | Go to Lafontaine, Mlle de (1655) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1870 | Go to Coppélia in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1873 | Go to Degas, Edgar Hilaire Germain (19 July 1834) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1877 | Go to Reisinger, Julius Wenzel (14 Dec. 1828) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1890 | Go to Sleeping Beauty, The in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1892 | Go to Nutcracker, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1895 | Go to Swan Lake in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1900 | Go to Duncan, Isadora (1877–1927) in A Dictionary of Sports Studies (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to Mata Hari in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1906 | Go to Astaire, Fred (1899–1987) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1907 | Go to Sylphides, Les in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dying Swan, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1908 | Go to Nijinska, Bronislava (8 Jan. 1891) in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Fokine, Michel (1880–1942) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Benois, Alexandre (4 May 1870) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Diaghilev, Serge (31 Mar. 1872) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Fokine, Mikhail (5 May 1880) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bakst, Léon (1866) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to Scheherazade in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Firebird in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Pavlova, Anna (12 Feb. 1881) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Spectre de la rose, Le in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Petrushka in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nijinsky, Vaslav (12 Mar. 1889) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1912 | Go to Nijinsky, Vaslav (12 Mar. 1889) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Daphnis and Chloe in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berlin Opera Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1913 | Go to Rite of Spring, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nijinsky, Vaslav (12 Mar. 1889) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to foxtrot in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1915 | Go to Falla, Manuel de (1876) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1917 | Go to Parade in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Three-Cornered Hat, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1919 | Go to Boutique fantasque, La in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Milhaud, Darius (1892–1974) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1920 | Go to Rambert Dance Company in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1922 | Go to Charleston in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1923 | Go to Roussel, Albert (1869) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1924 | Go to Train bleu, Le in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1926 | Go to Valois, (Dame) Ninette de (6 Jun. 1898) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Labanotation in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ashton, Sir Frederick William Mallandaine (1904–1988) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Miraculous Mandarin, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1927 | Go to Graham, Martha (1893–1991) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Duncan, Isadora (1877–1927) in A Dictionary of Sports Studies (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to de Valois, Dame Ninette (1898–2001) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Apollo in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bolero in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ulanova, Galina (8 Jan. 1910) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1930 | Go to Astaire, Fred (1899–1987) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Camargo Society, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berkeley, Busby (29 Nov. 1895) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1931 | Go to Façade in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to de Valois, Dame Ninette (1898–2001) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1932 | Go to Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Les in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bluebell Girls in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1933 | Go to Flying Down To Rio in Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1934 | Go to Fonteyn, Dame Margot (1919–1991) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1935 | Go to Top Hat in Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to American Ballet, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Noguchi, Isamu (1904–88) in A Dictionary of Modern Design (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rambert, (Dame) Marie (20 Feb. 1888) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (28 Mar. 1886) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1938 | Go to Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeievich (1891–1953) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1940 | Go to American Ballet Theatre in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to de Mille, Agnes (1905–93) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1942 | Go to Cage, John (5 Sept. 1912) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rodeo in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1944 | Go to Fancy Free in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to On the Town (1944) in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Appalachian Spring in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1946 | Go to Ashton, (Sir) Frederick (17 Sept. 1904) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tallchief, Maria (24 Jan. 1925) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1948 | Go to Red Shoes, The (film musical) in Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to New York City Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Matsuyama Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ashton, (Sir) Frederick (17 Sept. 1904) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1949 | Go to Carmen in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1950 | Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova form the Festival Ballet, in time for next year's Festival of Britain Go to English National Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1951 | Go to National Ballet of Canada in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1953 | Go to MacMillan, Sir Kenneth (11 Dec. 1929) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Cunningham, Merce (16 Apr. 1919) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1954 | Go to Taylor, Paul (29 Jul. 1930) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1955 | Go to Benesh, Rudolf in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1956 | Go to Robbins, Jerome (11 Oct. 1918) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Royal Ballet, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ulanova, Galina (8 Jan. 1910) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Spartacus in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1957 | Go to Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Les in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1958 | Go to Seymour, Lynn (8 Mar. 1939) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Romeo and Juliet in The International Encyclopedia of Dance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1959 | Go to Nederlands Dans Theater in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1960 | Go to Ballet of the 20th Century in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1961 | Go to Cranko, John (15 Aug. 1927) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich (1939–1993) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1962 | Go to Tetley, Glen (3 Feb. 1926) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Australian Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1963 | Go to Marguerite and Armand in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Valois, (Dame) Ninette de (6 Jun. 1898) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1964 | Go to Dowell, (Sir) Anthony (16 Feb. 1943) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Red Detachment of Women, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1965 | Go to Romeo and Juliet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Joffrey, Robert (24 Dec. 1930) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1970 | Go to Makarova, Natalia (21 Nov. 1940) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1971 | Go to Dance Theatre of Harlem in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to hip-hop in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1973 | Go to Tharp, Twyla (1 Jul. 1941) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1974 | Go to Manon in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Baryshnikov, Mikhail Nikolaievich (1948– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Elite Syncopations in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1975 | Go to Kylián, Jiří (21 Mar. 1947) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1976 | Go to Baryshnikov, Mikhail Nikolaievich (1948– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ashton, Sir Frederick William Mallandaine (1904–1988) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1978 | Go to MacMillan, Sir Kenneth (1929–1992) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1980 | Go to Morris, Mark (29 Aug. 1956) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1981 | Go to Guillem, Sylvie (23 Feb. 1965) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1983 | Go to Nureyev, Rudolf (17 Mar. 1938) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1984 | Go to Forsythe, William (30 Dec. 1949) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1987 | Go to Guillem, Sylvie (23 Feb. 1965) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1989 | Go to English National Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Guillem, Sylvie (23 Feb. 1965) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bussell, Darcey (27 Apr. 1969) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1990 | Go to Martins, Peter (27 Oct. 1946) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Baryshnikov, Mikhail (27 Jan. 1948) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Birmingham Royal Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mukhamedov, Irek (8 Mar. 1960) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1992 | Go to Dance Theatre of Harlem in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1994 | Go to Riverdance in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1995 | Go to Bourne, Matthew (13 Jan. 1960) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1997 | Go to Schaufuss, Peter (26 Apr. 1949) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
