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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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| 1907 |
| | | Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed for her by Michel Fokine to music by Saint-Saëns | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Bronislava Nijinska joins her brother Vaslav in the Maryinsky company in St Petersburg | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Diaghilev presents the first season of Ballets Russes in Paris, with Pavlova and Nijinsky in the company | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Fokine's 1907 ballet Chopiniana is revised and given a new name, Les Sylphides | |
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