Alvin ailey

Ballet and Modern History 1900 to present

By Baylie
  • Louie Fuller

    Danced Serpentine Dance were she incorporated lighting on fabric
  • Ziegfeld Follies

  • Period: to

    Ballet Russe

    The company flourished under the director Diaghilev
  • Anna Pavlova

    Founded her own company
  • Afternoon of a Faun

    Nijinsky choregraphy
    2 dimentional
    Debussy
  • Parade

    Choreography by Massine
    Set by Picasso
  • Period: to

    Early days of Modern Dance

  • George Balanchine

    Hired to creatre choreo for Ballet Russe's
  • Doris Humphrey

    Breaks away from the Denishawn school to start her own company
  • Period: to

    Lestor Horton

    Choreographer for modern dance
  • Bennington Festival

    Held in vermont then in 1948 moved to connecticut
  • Denishawn

    School seperates
  • Primitive Mysteries

    Choreographed by Martha Graham
    cult of women adoring virgin mary
  • New Negro Art Theatre Dance Group

    Founded in New York by Edna Guy and Hemsley Winfield
  • San Fransico Ballet

    Founded by Adolph Bolm
  • School of American Ballet

    Opened in Manhatten
  • American Ballet

    First season premeire with choregraphy by Balanchine
  • Philiadelphia Ballet

    First company to succesfully tour in Paris, Brussels, and London
  • Oklahoma!

    Choreographed by Agnes De Mille
  • The Moor's Pavane

    Choreography by Jose Limon
    about Othello
    used court dances
  • Modern Dance

    Recognized as American Art form
  • University of Utah

    Ballet Comapny Founded
  • Black and White Ballet

    Choreo by Jiri Killian
    From Netherlands
  • Death of Martha Graham

  • One Flat Thing

    Choreo by William Forsythe
    Moved from USA to Germany
    contempory Ballet
  • One Flat Thing

    One Flat Thing
    Choreo by William Forsythe
    Moved from USA to Germany
    Contemporary Ballet
  • One Flat Thing

    Choreo by William Forsythe
    Moved from USA to Germany
    Contemporary Ballet
  • One Flat Thing

    Choreographed by William Forsythe
    moved from USA to Germany
    Contemporary Ballet