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| 1926 |
| | | Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation | |
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| 1926 |
| | | English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it | |
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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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