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| 1927 |
| | | US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham opens a School of Contemporary Dance in New York | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic | |
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| 1928 |
| | | George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | The verdict on Fred Astaire's first screen test, so the legend goes, is that he can't act, can't sing, is balding but can dance a little | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee | |
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