| 1462 |
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Italy |
Domenico di Piacenza writes first known treatise on dance |
| 1489 |
|
Italy |
Bergonzio di Botta presents his dinner Ballet at Tortona |
| 1494 |
|
Italy |
Charles II of of France invades Italy |
| 1581 |
|
France |
Belgiojoso stages Le Ballet Comique de la Reine |
| 1581 |
|
Italy |
Fabrizio Caroso publishes Il Ballarino |
| 1583 |
|
France |
Catherine de Medici marries Henry II of France |
| 1584 |
|
Italy |
Teatro d’Olympico, with proscenium arch stage opens in Verona |
| 1588 |
|
France |
Arbeau publishes Orchesographic, the first French treatise on dance |
| 1600 |
|
Central Europe |
The Liberation of Peace performed in Darmstadt |
| 1604 |
|
Italy |
Cesare Negri publishes Nuovi Inventioni di Balli |
| 1605 |
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UK |
Johnson begins writing masques (in collaboration with Indigo Jones) |
| 1609 |
|
Central Europe |
First court ballets in Stuttgart |
| 1620 |
|
United States |
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Massachusetts |
| 1634 |
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Scandinavia |
von Kuckelsom states first Danish ballet de cour |
| 1634 |
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UK |
Milton writes Comus |
| 1638 |
|
Low Countries |
First theatre opens in Amsterdam |
| 1638 |
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Scandinavia |
de Beaulieu stages first Swedish ballet de cour |
| 1640 |
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UK |
last masque, Salmacida Spolia, produced at Whitehall for Charles I |
| 1642 |
|
UK |
Civil War begins |
| 1643 |
|
Central Europe |
First theatre in Poland opens in Royal Palace, Warsaw |
| 1651 |
|
France |
Louis XIV makes first appearance in public as a dancer |
| 1653 |
|
France |
Louis XIV portrays the Rising Sun in Le Ballet Royale de la Nuit |
| 1658 |
|
Low Countries |
First female dancers appear on stage in Amsterdam |
| 1660 |
|
UK |
Restoration of Monarchy |
| 1669 |
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France |
Louis XIV estabilishes Academic Royale de la Musique (Paris Opera) Ballet performances move from palace ballroom to proscenium arch theatre. Pierre Beauchamp creates the 5 positions of the feet.
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| 1669 |
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Low Countries |
First Dutch balletts de cour produced fro William of Orange |
| 1681 |
|
France |
First professional female dancers appear on French stage in Le Triomphe de l’Amour |
| 1689 |
|
Russia |
Accession of Peter the Great |
| 1705 |
|
Low Countries |
Small ballet company established at Theatre sur la Monnai in Brussels |
| 1705 |
|
UK |
Haymarket Theatre opens |
| 1713 |
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France |
Ballet School attached to Opera |
| 1714 |
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France |
Duchess of Maine presents mime version of Les Horaces at her Chateau |
| 1716 |
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UK |
Marie Salle and her brother make debuts at Lincolns Inn Fields under John Rich |
| 1717 |
|
Central Europe |
Taubert writes first German treatise on dance |
| 1717 |
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UK |
John Weaver presents The Loves of Mars and Venus at Drury Lane |
| 1724 |
|
Central Europe |
First theatre opens in Prague. Opera House opens in Warsaw |
| 1726 |
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Scandinavia |
Lander takes charge of dancing at theatre in Copenhagen’s Lille Gronnegade |
| 1727 |
|
France |
Salle makes debut at opera |
| 1733 |
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UK |
Salle’s production of Pygmalion causes a sensation at Lincolns Inn Fields |
| 1735 |
|
France |
Opera Ballet reaches it’s peak with Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes |
| 1737 |
|
Italy |
Teatro San Carlo opens in Naples |
| 1738 |
|
Russia |
Lande founds Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg |
| 1739 |
|
France |
La Barabarina astounds Paris with Entrecaht Huit |
| 1742 |
|
Central Europe |
Frederick the Great establishes Royal Opera House in Berlin |
| 1744 |
|
Central Europe |
Hilferding begins to choreograph ballet’s d’action in Vienna. La Barbarina triumphs in Berlin |
| 1748 |
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Scandinavia |
First Royal Theatre opens on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen |
| 1755 |
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UK |
Garrick invites Noverre to produce Les Fetes Chinoises at Drury Lane |
| 1758 |
|
France |
Noverre produces early ballet d’action Caprices de Galatee in Lyon |
| 1758 |
|
Russia |
Hilferding becomes ballet master in St Petersburg |
| 1759 |
|
Central Europe |
Noverre arrives in Stuttgart |
| 1761 |
|
Central Europe |
Angiolini presents Don Juan |
| 1762 |
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Russia |
Catherine the Great |
| 1765 |
|
Central Europe |
National Theatre founded in Warsaw |
| 1766 |
|
Russia |
Directorate of Imperial Theatres established to administer ballet, opera and drama. Angiolini succeeds Hilferding |
| 1767 |
|
Central Europe |
Noverre arrives in Vienna |
| 1770 |
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Scandinavia |
Court Theatre built at Christianborg Castel |
| 1772 |
|
France |
Maximillian Gardet discards his mask at the Opera |
| 1773 |
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Scandinavia |
Galeotti arrives in Copenhagen |
| 1774 |
|
Russia |
Beccari founds ballet school at Moscow Orphanage |
| 1776 |
|
France |
Noverre appointed ballet master at Opera |
| 1778 |
|
Italy |
La Scala opens in Milan |
| 1781 |
|
Scandinavia |
Antoine Bournonvilled joins Royal Swedish Ballet |
| 1781 |
|
UK |
Noverre appointed ballet master at King’s Theatre |
| 1783 |
|
Italy |
First mention of ballet in Rome |
| 1786 |
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Scandinavia |
Premier of Galeotti’s The Whims of Cupid and The Ballet Master |
| 1789 |
|
France |
Dauberval produces La Fille Mal Gardee in Bordeaux |
| 1789 |
|
France |
French Revolution begins |
| 1792 |
|
Central Europe |
Ballet school founded in Munich |
| 1793 |
|
Central Europe |
Vigano begins first engagement at Kaertnerthor Theatre in Vienna |
| 1794 |
|
Russia |
Valberkh directs St. Petersberg school in Moscow, Petrovky theatre and school brought into Imperial system |
| 1796 |
|
UK |
Didelot produces Flore et Zephyre |
| 1801 |
|
Central Europe |
Vigano presents The Creatures of Prometheus in Vienna |
| 1801 |
|
Russia |
Didelot arrives in St. Petersburg to direct Bolshoi Theatre |
| 1803 |
|
Scandinavia |
Filippo Taglioni engaged as soloist in Stockholm |
| 1813 |
|
Italy |
Imperiale Regio Accadedmia di Danze established at La Scala Vigano begins staging his ‘choreodrammi’ in Milan |
| 1813 |
|
Scandinavia |
August Bournonvilled dances in public for the first time. |
| 1815 |
|
Central Europe |
Congress of Vienna |
| 1815 |
|
Central Europe |
Horschelt’s Children’s Ballet becomes popular |
| 1818 |
|
Central Europe |
National Theatre opens in Munich |
| 1819 |
|
Low Countries |
Jean Antoine Petipa made first ballet master in Brussels |
| 1821 |
|
Central Europe |
Filippo Taglioni and Barbaja in charge at Kaernerthor Theatre |
| 1824 |
|
Central Europe |
Taglioni family arrives in Stuttgart |
| 1825 |
|
Russia |
Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre opens |
| 1826 |
|
UK |
Blasis appointed choreographer and soloist at King’s Theatre |
| 1829 |
|
Scandinavia |
Bournonvilled appointed Ballet Master at Royal Theatre in Copenhagen |
| 1830 |
|
UK |
Blasis publishes The Code of Terpichore |
| 1837 |
|
Italy |
Blasis appointed director of La Scala Academy |
| 1837 |
|
Russia |
Marie Taglioni arrives in St. Petersburg for the first time |
| 1837 |
|
United States |
Maywood and Lee make debuts in Philadelphia |
| 1839 |
|
Russia |
Delsarte begins most active period as teacher of singing and recitation |
| 1839 |
|
Scandinavia |
Grahn leaves Denmark for international career. |
| 1840 |
|
United States |
Elssler begins triumphal American tour |
| 1841 |
|
Scandinavia |
Marie Taglioni tours Sweden |
| 1841 |
|
UK |
Lumbley hires Perrot for Her Majesty’s Theatre |
| 1842 |
|
Russia |
Christian Johansson accompanies Taglioni to St. Petersburg. Andreianova becomes first Russian Giselle. |
| 1842 |
|
Scandinavia |
Premier of Bournonvilles Napoli |
| 1843 |
|
Central Europe |
Filippo Taglioni directs National Theatre in Warsaw |
| 1844 |
|
UK |
Perrot presents La Esmeralda. Clara Webster dies in fire on stage at Drury Lane |
| 1845 |
|
UK |
Premier of Perrot’s Pas de Quatre |
| 1846 |
|
Scandinavia |
Premier of Selinder’s People of Vaarmland in Stockholm |
| 1848 |
|
Russia |
Elssler takes Russia by storm. Perrot begins work in St. Petersburg |
| 1850 |
|
UK |
Grisi makes last appearance in Western Europe, in Paula Taglioni’s Les Metamorphoses |
| 1856 |
|
Central Europe |
Paul Taglioni becomes ballet master in Berlin |
| 1858 |
|
Russia |
Saint-Leon replaces Perrot |
| 1859 |
1870 |
Italy |
Unification of Italy |
| 1861 |
|
Russia |
Petipa produces The Pharaoh’s Daughter |
| 1861 |
|
United States |
Civil War begins |
| 1866 |
1871 |
Central Europe |
Unification of Germany |
| 1869 |
|
Central Europe |
Opera House opens Ringstrasse in Vienna |
| 1870 |
|
Russia |
Petipa officially named ballet master in St. Petersburg |
| 1871 |
|
Low Countries |
First performance of Coppelia outside France, in Brussels |
| 1872 |
|
Low Countries |
Lucien Petipa made ballet master in Brussels |
| 1877 |
|
Scandinavia |
Bournonville retires. |
| 1879 |
|
Scandinavia |
Beck makes debut with Royal Danish Ballet. First state theatre opens in Helsinki |
| 1881 |
|
Italy |
Manzottie stages Excelsior, one of his earlier ‘colossal’ ballets |
| 1884 |
|
Central Europe |
Hungarian Ballet founded. Budapest Opera House opens |
| 1885 |
|
Russia |
Zucchi first dances in Russia |
| 1887 |
|
UK |
Lanner appointed ballet mistress of Empire Theatre |
| 1890 |
|
Russia |
Checchetti arrives to dance in Sleeping Beauty |
| 1892 |
|
Russia |
Premiere of the Nutcracker |
| 1894 |
|
Russia |
Stepanov’s book on dance notation published |
| 1894 |
|
Scandinavia |
Beck makes director of Royal Danish Ballet |
| 1895 |
|
Russia |
Legnani introduces 32 fouetttes in Swan Lake |
| 1897 |
|
UK |
Genee makes London Debut |
| 1899 |
1902 |
UK |
Boer War |
| 1902 |
|
Central Europe |
Cecchetti Ballet Master at National Theatre Warsaw |
| 1903 |
|
Central Europe |
Allen makes debut in Vienna |
| 1906 |
|
Scandinavia |
Duncan tours Scandinavia |
| 1906 |
|
United States |
Premiere of St Denis’s Radha |
| 1907 |
|
United States |
Genee makes first American tour |
| 1908 |
|
Scandinavia |
Pavlova makes first appearance outside Russia in Stockholm |
| 1909 |
|
Scandinavia |
Premier of Beck’s The Little Mermaid |
| 1909 |
|
United States |
Fornaroli becomes ballet mistress at Metropolitan Opera in New York |
| 1909 |
|
United States |
Duncan returns to USA for first tour |
| 1910 |
|
Central Europe |
Dalcroze establishes school at Hellerau. Von Laban debut in Vienna |
| 1910 |
|
UK |
Pavlova arrives in England |
| 1913 |
|
ANZAC |
Genee tours Australia and New Zealand |
| 1914 |
|
Low Countries |
Gertrude Leistikow begins to introduce modern dance to Holland |
| 1915 |
|
Scandinavia |
Beck retires |
| 1915 |
|
United States |
First Denishawn school opens in Los Angeles |
| 1916 |
|
Italy |
Diaghilev and Massine winter in Rome, prepare Parade and present Les Femmes des Bonne Humeur |
| 1916 |
|
UK |
Astafieva opens school in London |
| 1916 |
|
United States |
Ballet Russes makes first appearance in New York |
| 1917 |
|
United States |
USA enters WWI |
| 1920 |
|
Central Europe |
Wigman opens school in Dresden |
| 1920 |
|
Scandinavia |
De Mare forms Les Ballet Suedois |
| 1920 |
|
UK |
Rambert opens school at Notting Hill Gate. Association of Operatic Dancing (now Royal Academy of Dancing) founded |
| 1920 |
|
United States |
Bolm becomes ballet master of Chicago Civic Opera |
| 1921 |
|
Scandinavia |
Gue appointed ballet master in Helsinki |
| 1922 |
|
Italy |
Mussolini in Power |
| 1922 |
|
UK |
Cecchetti Society founded |
| 1925 |
|
Italy |
Ceccetti returns to Italy to become directore at La Scala |
| 1926 |
|
ANZAC |
Pavlova tours Australia |
| 1926 |
|
UK |
de Valois arrives in London. Ashton presents first work at Lyric Theatre |
| 1926 |
|
United States |
University of Wisconsin offers first degree program in dance |
| 1927 |
|
United States |
Graham opens School of Contemporary Dance |
| 1928 |
|
UK |
Wigman makes London debut |
| 1929 |
|
Italy |
Diaghilev dies in Venice |
| 1930 |
|
Scandinavia |
Lander appointed director of Royal Danish Ballet |
| 1930 |
|
UK |
Camargo Society founded |
| 1931 |
|
UK |
de Valois becomes director of new Vic-Wells Ballet. Rambert begins Ballet Club performances |
| 1932 |
|
United States |
Ted Shawn Male Dancers organized premiere of Primitives Mysteries and The Shakers |
| 1933 |
|
Central Europe |
Hitler in power in Germany |
| 1933 |
|
Low Countries |
Schwezoff establishes ballet school in The Hague |
| 1933 |
|
UK |
Ashton Choreographs Les Rendezvous. Joos and Leeder establish Ballet Joos. |
| 1933 |
|
United States |
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo begins touring USA. Bolm Helps found San Franciso Opera Ballet |
| 1934 |
|
United States |
Balanchine and Kirstein open School of American Ballet |
| 1935 |
|
UK |
Vic-Wells becomes Sadlers Wells Ballet. Markova-Dolin Ballet formed |
| 1935 |
|
United States |
Premiere of Balanchines’s Serenade |
| 1936 |
|
UK |
Tudor choreographs Jardin aux Lilas at Mercury |
| 1936 |
|
United States |
Kirstein founds Ballet Caravan. Hanya Holm Studio opens in New York |
| 1938 |
|
Canada |
Winnipeg Ballet Club founded in Canada |
| 1938 |
|
South America |
Original Ballet Russe tours South America. |
| 1938 |
|
United States |
Ballet Caravan presents Filling Station and Billy the Kid |
| 1939 |
|
Central Europe |
Germany invades Poland |
| 1939 |
|
Low Countries |
Georgi Ballet founded |
| 1939 |
|
UK |
Ballet Club becomes Ballet Rambert |
| 1939 |
|
United States |
Ballet Theatre founded by Chase and Pleasant. Georgi Ballet tours United States |
| 1941 |
|
Central Europe |
Hanka takes over as ballet mistress at Vienna Opera House |
| 1941 |
|
Low Countries |
Georgi Ballet becomes Amsterdam Opera Ballet |
| 1941 |
|
UK |
Ballet Rambert performs Gore’s Confessional |
| 1941 |
|
United States |
Shawn founds Jocob’s Pillow Dance Festival |
| 1942 |
|
United States |
Premiere of de Mille’s Rodeo |
| 1943 |
|
United States |
Horton opens school in Los Angeles |
| 1944 |
|
United States |
American Ballet Theatre presents Robbin’s Fancy Free |
| 1944 |
|
United States |
Premiere of Graham’s Appalachian Spring |
| 1945 |
|
Central Europe |
Germany surrenders |
| 1945 |
|
Low Countries |
Snoek founds Scapino Ballet |
| 1945 |
|
United States |
Merce Cunningham founds own company |
| 1946 |
|
UK |
Saddler’s Wells Ballet moves to Covent Garden. Ashton premiers Symphonic Variations |
| 1946 |
|
United States |
Balanchine and Kierstein form Ballet Society |
| 1947 |
|
Low Countries |
Ter Weeme forms Ballet der Large Landen |
| 1948 |
|
Scandinavia |
Premier of Lander’s Etude |
| 1948 |
|
United States |
Ballet Society becomes New York City Ballet |
| 1948 |
|
United States |
Halprin opens studio |
| 1949 |
|
Low Countries |
Collins reorganizes Opera Ballet |
| 1949 |
|
United States |
Limon first presents The Moor’s Pavane |
| 1949 |
|
United States |
Sadler’s Wells visits New York |
| 1950 |
|
Italy |
Susannah Negri establishes small company at Teatro Regio in Turin |
| 1950 |
|
Scandinavia |
Lander Leaves Copenhagen. Volkova arrives, annual Ballet Festival begins. Tudor directs Royal Swedish Ballet. Production Miss Julie |
| 1950 |
|
UK |
Markova and Dolin form Festival Ballet |
| 1951 |
|
Canada |
National Ballet of Canada founded in Toronto |
| 1953 |
|
Canada |
Winnipeg Ballet Club becomes Royal Winnipeg Ballet |
| 1953 |
|
Scandinavia |
Skeaping directs Royal Swedish Ballet. Den Norske established |
| 1954 |
|
Low Countries |
Nederlands Ballet established in the Hague |
| 1956 |
|
UK |
Saddler’s Wells becomes Royal Ballet. Fonteyn makes DEE. West forms Western Theatre Ballet in Bristol. |
| 1956 |
|
United States |
Joffrey Ballet established |
| 1958 |
|
United States |
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre founded |
| 1959 |
|
Low Countries |
Amsterdam Ballet formed from Opera Ballet and Ballet der Large Landen. Harkavy forms Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague |
| 1960 |
|
Central Europe |
Cranko appointed director of Stuttgart Ballet |
| 1960 |
|
Italy |
Carla Fracci forms touring company |
| 1960 |
|
Low Countries |
Bejart forms Ballet of the 20th Century in Brussels |
| 1961 |
|
Low Countries |
National Ballet formed from Amsterdam Ballet and Netherlands Ballet |
| 1962 |
|
ANZAC |
Australian Ballet established |
| 1962 |
|
UK |
Nureyev joins Royal Ballet begins partnership with Fonteyn. |
| 1963 |
|
UK |
Graham appears in London and Edinburgh |
| 1965 |
|
Scandinavia |
Flindt takes over Royal Danish Ballet |
| 1965 |
|
UK |
Ballet Rambert organized into smaller group for experimental ballet |
| 1966 |
|
Scandinavia |
Royal Danish Ballet tours United States |
| 1966 |
|
UK |
London Contemporary Dance Theatre founded |
| 1969 |
|
UK |
Western Theatre Ballet becomes Scottish Theatre Ballet based in Glasgow |
| 1971 |
|
Low Countries |
Bejart presents Nijinsky |
| 1973 |
|
Central Europe |
Neumeier appointed director of Hamburg State Opera Ballet |
| 1973 |
|
United States |
Tharp choreographs Deuce Coupe for Joffrey Ballet |
| 1974 |
|
Scandinavia |
Den Norske Ballet makes first American tour |
