— The Riga Choreography School was founded.as the ballet school for the Latvian National Opera.

The project development for the school and its operation, including financial estimates and curriculum, was made by the premier danseur of the Latvian National Opera Harijs Plūcis. He becomes the teacher and leader of the school. 

Sins 1944, Harijs Plūcis' activities are linked with Europe. At the end of World War II he was in Germany, then he went to France and later moved to London where he worked as a teacher with the soloists of the English Royal Ballet and students of the ballet school. Later he was invited to Switzerland, to the newwly established Ballet Academy in Zürich, where after a few years the conductor Herbert von Karajan made a proposal to Harijs Plūcis to go to Austria where Plūcis worked as a ballet teacher and repetiteur at the Vienna Opera, the Ballet School and Ballet Academy until 1970 when he unexpectedly passed away.