This is a list of ballet premieres in the 1940s, by year.
| title | choreographer | composer | company | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Spring | Martha Graham | Aaron Copland | Martha Graham Dance Company | Library of Congress | October 30 |
| Fancy Free | Jerome Robbins | Leonard Bernstein | Ballet Theatre | Old Metropolitan Opera House | April 18 |
| Hérodiade | Martha Graham | Paul Hindemith | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium | October 30 | |
| Miracle in the Gorbals | Robert Helpmann | Arthur Bliss | Sadler's Wells Ballet | Prince's Theatre, London | October 26 |
| The Nutcracker | Willam Christensen | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | San Francisco Ballet | December 24 | |
| Simple Symphony | Walter Gore | Benjamin Britten | Rambert Dance Company | ||
| The Stone Flower | Konstantin Muller | Alexander Fridlender | |||
| title | choreographer | composer | company | venue or presentation | date | refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinderella | Rostislav Zakharov | Sergei Prokofiev | Bolshoi Ballet | Bolshoi Theatre | November 21 | [1] [2] |
| Interplay | Jerome Robbins | Morton Gould | Billy Rose's Concert Varieties | Ziegfeld Theatre | June 1 | [3] |