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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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1990
The Ballet Club, the first formal organisation of donors to The Australian Ballet, is formed.
1990
Dame Peggy van Praagh dies after a long and debilitating illness.
15 January 1990
Stephen Baynes makes his first commissioned work for The Australian Ballet.
4 May 1990
The Australian Ballet tours New York, Washington DC and Costa Mesa.
July – August 1990
Four gala performances are given in Sydney.
