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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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2000
Artistic Director Ross Stretton announces he will be leaving The Australian Ballet.
March 2000
Newly-appointed resident choreographer Natalie Weir produces her full-length ballet Mirror Mirror.
16 June 2000
The company performs at the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival.
August – September 2000
The Australian Ballet perform Jiří Kylián’s lyrical 
