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Events relating to dance
Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris
Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London
Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation
English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it
US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham opens a School of Contemporary Dance in New York
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois
Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company
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
The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London
US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee
Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score
A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio
15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have one of their greatest successes dancing in their fourth film together, Top Hat
George Balanchine's new company, American Ballet, has its first brief season in New York
In Frontier the Japanese-US sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs the first of his many sets for Martha Graham ballets
