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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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1978
The Australian Ballet Development Fund is established.
1978
Graeme Murphy’s first commissioned piece for the company premieres.
15 May 1978
Marilyn Jones retires from the stage.
19 September 1978
Marilyn Rowe and Kelvin Coe become the first Australian artists to appear as guests of the Bolshoi Ballet.
October 1978
The Australian premiere of László Seregi’s Spartacus.
