Browse through the decades; search for a ballet, person or event; or dive right in through the spotlight.
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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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1977
Carla Fracci performs as a guest of the company.
1977
Danilo Radojevic wins Australia’s first gold medal in Moscow.
June 1977
Anne Woolliams resigns as artistic director.
25 August 1977
Anne Woolliams’ Swan Lake premieres in Melbourne.
19 October 1977
Peggy van Praagh becomes artistic director once again and the company gets its first work by Jerome Robbins.



