Born on February 9 in Hartford, CT, to Sarah (Cohen) and Samuel Sokolowski; family moves to New York City a few years later

Takes first dance class, at Emanuel Sisterhood of Personal Service

Studies with Martha Graham and Louis Horst at Neighborhood Playhouse School

Joins Martha Graham's company

Choreographs and performs in first major group piece, Anti-War Trilogy

Travels to Soviet Union, where she is disappointed by the lack of a true revolutionary dance movement

Directs dances for André Obey's Noah, the first of many Broadway collaborations

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

Travels to Mexico for first time; later becomes known as "the founder of Mexican modern dance."

Premiere of Kaddish, inspired by Jewish mourning ritual

Last major appearance as performer, in her staging of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk

Stages "Purim Jubilee" for Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds

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

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

Premiere of Dreams, an allegory of the terror and hopelessness experienced by victims of the Holocaust

Premiere of Opus '65, a prototype for later rock ballets and a strong influence on Broadway

Creates original dances for Off-Broadway production of Hair

Receives honorary doctorates from Ohio State University and Brandeis University

Receives National Foundation for Jewish Culture's Jewish Cultural Achievement Award

Awarded Mexico's highest civilian honor given to a foreigner

Inducted into National Museum of Dance's Dance Hall of Fame

Dies on March 29 in New York City, at the age of 90