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Maina Gielgud

Former Principal Artist Lisa Bolte remembers being chosen to dance the role of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty at the age of 21.

January 1988

Maina Gielgud invites Stanton Welch to make his first full-length work on the company.

1995

It's another marathon year for the company: they perform four full-length ballets and fourteen one-act ballets.

1987

Maina Gielgud is appointed The Australian Ballet’s artistic director.

December 1982

Maina Gielgud initiates an international dancer exchange program.

April 1984

The Australian Ballet takes Swan Lake to Cardiff and London.

July 2005

Ross Stretton replaces Maina Gielgud as artistic director.

January 1997

Maina Gielgud spends her last year with The Australian Ballet.

1996

Rudolf Nureyev dies.

6 January 1993

The company makes a triumphant tour to the ballet meccas of London, St Petersburg and Moscow.

June – August 1988

Maina Gielgud stages a new production of Giselle.

12 September 1986

The State Theatre at the Victorian Arts Centre opens with Maina Gielgud’s new production of The Sleeping Beauty.

30 October 1984

Former stars Marilyn Rowe and Kelvin Coe perform in the company’s first simulcast with ABC TV.

17 September 1983