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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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1980s
Shake-ups and growing up: The Australian Ballet is left decimated by bitter disputes, breeds a new generation of stars and seals its coming of age by wowing the Russians.