Diaghilev presents the first season of Ballets Russes in Paris, with Pavlova and Nijinsky in the company

Fokine's 1907 ballet Chopiniana is revised and given a new name, Les Sylphides

Set-designer Leon Bakst begins a long association with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

Schéhérazade, with choreography by Fokine, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris

The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company

Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo

The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)

Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west

Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune

Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris

The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house

Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes

Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev

The foxtrot, possibly introduced by US performer Harry Fox, becomes an immensely popular ballroom dance

Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris

Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes)

Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is produced by Diaghilev with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso

The dancer Mata Hari is executed in France as a German spy

Léonide Massine, Ottorino Respighi and André Derain collaborate on the ballet La Boutique Fantasque

Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit

Marie Rambert, a Polish dancer with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London

Alfred Adler, in Vienna, opens the first of many child-guidance clinics

The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston

Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris