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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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Lucette Aldous
Colin Peasley reminisces about filming Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote.
December 1972
The Friends of The Australian Ballet NSW is formed.
1973
The Australian Ballet perform Frederick Ashton’s Monotones and Two Pigeons at a Royal Performance for Princess Margaret.
25 October 1975
The Ballets Russes choreographer Léonide Massine travels to Australia.
9 December 1971
Rudolf Nureyev dies.
6 January 1993
The Merry Widow, the first full-length work commissioned by The Australian Ballet, has its world premiere in Melbourne.
13 November 1975
Anne Woolliams comes to Australia to stage John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet.
28 November 1974
The Australian Ballet begins its long association with the Sydney Opera House as Garth Welch says farewell.
7 December 1973
Robert Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev make Nureyev’s production of Don Quixote into a film starring The Australian Ballet.
December 1972 – January 1973
The Australian premiere of Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote in Adelaide.
