Doris Humphrey Timeline - including Major Works
| 1895 | Born October 17 in Oak Park |
| 1915 | Graduates Francis Parker, begins teaching |
| 1918 | Joins Denishawn |
| 1919 | •Valse Caprice (Scarf) |
| 1920 | •Soaring, Sonata Pathetique (With St. Denis) |
| 1923 | •Scherzo Waltz (Hoop) |
| 1925 | Tours Orient with Denishawn |
| 1928 | Leaves Denishawn, firest independent concert and formation of Humphry-Weidman Group •Air for the G String •Color Harmony •Water Study |
| 1929 | •Life of the Bee •The Call/Breath of Fire |
| 1930 | First season Dance Repertory Theatre •Drama of Motion •Lysistrata |
| 1931 | •The Shakers •Dances for Women •Two Ecstatic Themes |
| 1932 | Marries Charles Francis Woodford •Dionysiaques •Pleasures of Counterpoint |
| 1933 | Birth of son, Charles Humphrey Woodford •School for Husbands |
| 1934 | First summer at Bennington, the site of many important premieres by all major modern dance figures during the next decade •Rude Poema |
| 1935 | Humphrey-Weidman makes first national tour by a modern dance company, establishes college circuit •Theatre Piece, New Dance •With My Red Fires |
| 1938 | •Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor |
| 1939 | •Square Dances |
| 1940 | Humphrey-Weidman Studio Theatre opens in NYC •Song of the West |
| 1942 | Joint Humphrey-Limon Concert •Partita in G Major •Four Chorale Preludes |
| 1943 | •El Salon Mexico |
| 1944 | Humphery's last dancing role Dissolution of Humphrey-Weidman •Inquest |
| 1946 | Humphrey directs new Jose Limon Dance Company •Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias •The Story of Mankind |
| 1947 | •Day on Earth |
| 1948 | First American Dance Festival Held at Connecticut College |
| 1949 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1951 | Joins faculty of new Dance Department at Juilliard •Night Spell |
| 1953 | Humphrey directs new dance company for children - The Merry-Go-Rounders •Ritmo Jundo •Ruins and Visions |
| 1954 | Wins Capezio Award for Outstanding Contributions to Modern Dance Juilliard Dance Theatre formed under Humphrey's direction •Felipe El Loco |
| 1957 | •Dance Overture |
| 1958 | Finishes book, The Art of Making Dances Begins autobiography Dies on December 29 |
| 1959 | •Brandenburg Concerto (Premiere posthumous) |