Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first known choreographic signs appeared in a Catalan manuscript in the year 1496. This document from Cervera captured the circular dance known as choreia and proved that the desire to preserve motion is as old as the movement itself.
Jean-Georges Noverre redefined the role of the ballet master as the arranger of dance as a theatrical art in 1780. Noverre and his contemporaries like Gasparo Angiolini, Jean Dauberval, Charles Didelot, and Salvatore Viganò developed techniques that demanded emotional expression and narrative coherence from every movement.
Isadora Duncan walked onto the stage in 1900 with bare feet and a simple tunic. Her naturalistic style of choreography challenged the very notion that dance required technical perfection, instead emphasizing the freedom of the human body to move as it naturally would.
Merce Cunningham stood in the center of a stage in 1952 and asked a question that would redefine the relationship between dance and music. His approach to choreography treated movement as an independent entity, existing in its own right rather than serving as an illustration of a musical score.
The International Choreographic Competition Hannover started in 1989 and became the longest-running choreography competition in the world. The competition went online in 2020 and 2021 before returning to the stage at the Theater am Aegi in 2022.
Kyle Hanagami stood in a courtroom in 2019 and sued Epic Games, alleging that the video game developer had copied a portion of his copyrighted dance moves in the popular game Fortnite. Hanagami had published a YouTube video in 2017 featuring a dance he choreographed to the song How Long by Charlie Puth.