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1928
 
    
Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company       
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      
1930
 
   
The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London      
1930
 
    
US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee       
1931
 
     
Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score        
1931
 
     
A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells        
1932
 
    
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master       
1932
 
    
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris       
1933
 
     
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio        
1934
 
    
15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker