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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.
