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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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1974
The premiere of Robert Helpmann’s Perisynthion, a companion to his Sun Music.
21 March 1974
Robert Helpmann assumes sole directorship of the company as Peggy van Praagh relinquishes her position due to ill health.
11 June 1974
Ballet ’74, The Australian Ballet’s choreographic workshop, is held in Canberra.
26 September 1974
Anne Woolliams comes to Australia to stage John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet.
