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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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1981
Serge Lifar visits The Australian Ballet to stage his ballet Suite en blanc.
18 March 1981
The company travels to Mexico to perform The Merry Widow.
8 May 1981
The Three Musketeers is a showcase for the company’s male dancers.
5 October 1981
The dancers go on strike for 26 days.
