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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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Kirsty Martin


After an absence of 43 years the company returns to Paris.

September – October 2008

International dance star Carlos Acosta partners Kirsty Martin in Afternoon of a Faun.

June 2008

The Australian Ballet commissions three new works from Australian choreographers.

2003

Kirsty Martin retires to spend more time with her two children and husband Damien Welch.

4 July 2011

The Australian Ballet tours to Japan with The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

July 2007

Steven Heathcote retires after hitting every height in a luminous 25-year career.

3 July 2007




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