1846 - George Washington Smith dances Albrecht in the First American Production of Giselle

1919 - Ella Gordon opens the Gordon School of Dance NYC

1926 - Essie Marie Dorsey Founds the Essie Marie Dorsey School of Dancing (Philadelphia PA)/Mabel Jones Freeman Founds the Studio for Classical Dancing (Washington DC)

1931 Katherine Dunham Forms Ballet Négre

1937 - American Negro Ballet was Founded

1939 -Bernice Hammond founds Hammond Dance Studio, Washington DC

1940 - Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre was Founded

1941 Jones-Haywood School of Ballet was Founded In Washington DC

1946 Sydney King and Marion Cuyjet found the Sydney-Marion School of Dance (Phila.)

1947 First Negro Classic Ballet / Talley Beatty and Betty Nichols performed Lew Christensen’s Blackface With Balanchine's Ballet Society

1948 Marion Cuyjet founds the Judimar School of Dance (Phila)/ Sydney King founds the Sydney King School of Dance (Phila)

1948 - Therrell C. Smith School of Dance is founded in Washington D.C.

1950 Arthur Bell dances world premiere of Frederick Ashton's Illuminations with New York City Ballet

1951 - Janet Collins joins with Metropolitan Opera Ballet

1952 - Louis Johnson performed Jerome Robbins’ Ballade with NYCB

1954 - Negro Dance Theater was founded/Delores Browne, John Jones and Billy Wilson perform in Antony Tudor’s Offenbach in the Underworld

1955 - Janet Collins retired from the Metropolitan Opera Ballet

1955 - Arthur Mitchell Joins New York City Ballet/ Raven Wilkinson Joins the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo  New York City

1957- Ward Flemying founds Ballet Americana/New York Negro Ballet

1961 - Sylvester Campbell, Benjamin Feliskdal and Billy Wilson join the Dutch National Ballet