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| 1956 |
| | | The ballet Spartacus, with music by Aram Khachaturian, has its premiere in Leningrad | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Latvian-Canadian dancer Ludmilla Chiriaeff founds the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Lynn Seymour creates the first of many roles for MacMillan, dancing the Adolescent in The Burrow | |
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| 1958 |
| | | John Cranko's version of Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's score, is premiered by La Scala Ballet in Venice | |
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| 1959 |
| | | A group of dancers leave the Netherlands Ballet and establish their own Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1960 |
| | | French choreographer Maurice Béjart is the first director of Belgium's new Ballet of the 20th Century | |
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| 1961 |
| | | British choreographer John Cranko becomes director of the Stuttgart Ballet | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Kirov company at Le Bourget airport and seeks political asylum in France | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Rudolf Nureyev makes his first appearance in a western company, dancing in The Sleeping Beauty for the Marquis de Cuevas | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US choreographer Glen Tetley creates a ballet to the music of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire | |
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