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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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Natalia Makarova arrives in Australia to stage her version of La Bayadère.
February 1998
Serge Lifar visits The Australian Ballet to stage his ballet Suite en blanc.
18 March 1981
The company acquires its first work by British wunderkind Kenneth MacMillan.
May 1973
Glen Tetley creates the sinuous, edgy work Gemini on The Australian Ballet.
March – April 1973
The company makes a triumphant tour to the ballet meccas of London, St Petersburg and Moscow.
June – August 1988
The Australian Ballet’s first season for the year is A Tribute to Borovansky.
21 March 1980
Marilyn Jones is appointed artistic director and commissions a new full-length work of Anna Karenina.
December 1979
The Australian premiere of László Seregi’s Spartacus.
