Dance Timeline - Timeline

American Ballet Theatre, "world's leading ballet", founded during World War II by Pleasent and Chase

Etinne-Jules Marey and Eadweard James Muybridge began experimenting with photography and motion.

Death of "classical ballet's major architect" Marius Petipa

First appearance of "Hollywood's premiere song-and-dance man" Fred Astaire

Dance on film begins

Country Dance Society is first presented by CBS, the first group to have a weekly show on Sundays

Herve starts considering making more comic, upbeat operas called "operettes"

First performance of "Dying Swan", by Anna Pavlova

Agnes de Mille coreographs Oklahoma! on Broadway

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, one of the first dance films in wide-screen format, is released