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| 1870 |
| | | Coppélia, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to music by Delibes, has its premiere at the Paris Opera | |
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| c. 1873 |
| | | French painter Edgar Degas finds inspiration in the onstage and backstage world of ballet dancers | |
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| 1877 |
| | | The ballet Swan Lake, with choreography by Julius Wenzel Reisinger to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere at the Bolshoi in Moscow | |
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| c. 1888 |
| | | An American Indian visionary, Wovoka, launches a new religion that will bring the dead back to life, calling it the Ghost Dance | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Sleeping Beauty, with choreography by Petipa to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Nutcracker, with choreography by Lev Ivanov to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Swan Lake is performed in St Petersburg in its definitive version, with choreography shared between Lucien Petipa and Lev Ivanov | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Isadora Duncan dances professionally for the first time in Europe in London's Lyceum Theatre | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari | |
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| 1906 |
| | | 6-year-old Fred Astaire and his sister Adele give their first professional performance, in the pier theatre in Keyport, New Jersey | |
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