| Timeline |
| 1910 | Born on February 9 in Hartford, CT, to Sarah (Cohen) and Samuel Sokolowski; family moves to New York City a few years later |
| c.1920 | Takes first dance class, at Emanuel Sisterhood of Personal Service |
| 1928 | Studies with Martha Graham and Louis Horst at Neighborhood Playhouse School |
| 1929 | Joins Martha Graham's company |
| 1933 | Choreographs and performs in first major group piece, Anti-War Trilogy |
| 1934 | Travels to Soviet Union, where she is disappointed by the lack of a true revolutionary dance movement |
| 1935 | Directs dances for André Obey's Noah, the first of many Broadway collaborations |
| 1936 | First full-evening concert of Sokolow's choreography, at 92nd Street Y
With other American modern dancers, boycotts International Dance Festival organized by German government to accompany Berlin Olympics |
| 1939 | Travels to Mexico for first time; later becomes known as "the founder of Mexican modern dance." |
| 1945 | Premiere of Kaddish, inspired by Jewish mourning ritual |
| 1951 | Last major appearance as performer, in her staging of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk |
| 1952 | Stages "Purim Jubilee" for Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds |
| 1953 | Choreographs Lyric Suite, an artistic turning point in which she finds own language of movement
Begins working with Inbal Dance Theater, initiating a longstanding relationship with Israeli dance world |
| 1955 | Premiere of Rooms, groundbreaking work dealing with universality of isolation in modern urban society and one of the first modern dances set to serious, edgy jazz |
| 1961 | Premiere of Dreams, an allegory of the terror and hopelessness experienced by victims of the Holocaust |
| 1965 | Premiere of Opus '65, a prototype for later rock ballets and a strong influence on Broadway |
| 1967 | Creates original dances for Off-Broadway production of Hair |
| 1978 | Receives honorary doctorates from Ohio State University and Brandeis University |
| 1985 | Receives National Foundation for Jewish Culture's Jewish Cultural Achievement Award |
| 1988 | Awarded Mexico's highest civilian honor given to a foreigner |
| 1998 | Inducted into National Museum of Dance's Dance Hall of Fame |
| 2000 | Dies on March 29 in New York City, at the age of 90 |
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