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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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| 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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