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Some of the text in The Australian Ballet timeline is adapted from essays in Luminous. These were written by Valerie Lawson (The Sixties), Jill Sykes (The Seventies), Lee Christofis (The Eighties), Michael Shmith (The Nineties) and Deborah Jones (The New Millennium).
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1976
The company travels to the USA, where they perform The Merry Widow with a 57-year-old Margot Fonteyn.
8 June – 25 July 1976
Anne Woolliams becomes artistic director and introduces John Cranko’s Onegin to the repertoire.
1 September 1976
Glimpses, created by Graeme Murphy, premieres in Canberra.
