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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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Rudolf Nureyev
Colin Peasley reminisces about filming Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote.
December 1972
Kelvin Coe and Marilyn Rowe win silver medals in Moscow.
June 1973
Rudolf Nureyev dies.
6 January 1993
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.
28 March 1970
Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda has its Australian premiere in Adelaide.
25 March 1966
The company jets off on a five-month international tour, which includes London, Paris, Lebanon, LA and Hawaii.
August 1965 – January 1966
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev arrive to guest with The Australian Ballet in Swan Lake and Giselle.
April 1964
Rudolf Nureyev, the explosive superstar recently defected from the Soviet Union, arrives in Sydney.
