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1944
 
     
Composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins work together on the ballet Fancy Free        
1944
 
     
Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins        
1944
 
     
Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring has choreography by Martha Graham        
1946
 
     
Frederick Ashton choreographs Symphonic Variations, to music by César Franck        
1946
 
    
The marriage of George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief unites two major stars of the US ballet scene       
1948
 
     
British dancer Robert Helpmann choreographs the ballet scenes in the film The Red Shoes, featuring Moira Shearer        
1948
 
   
George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama      
1948
 
   
Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo      
1948
 
    
Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer       
1949
 
    
Roland Petit's ballet Carmen, starring himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, is a sensation at its London premiere