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| 1964 |
| | | The Beijing ballet company goes political with The Red Detachment of Women, supervised by Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US choreographer Robert Joffrey founds a new company that becomes known (from 1977) as the Joffrey Ballet | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Dance Theatre of Harlem, founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, gives its first performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York | |
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| c. 1971 |
| | | Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US choreographer Twyla Tharp creates Deuce Coupe, set to songs by the Beach Boys | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan uses Scott Joplin as his score for a ragtime ballet, Elite Syncopations | |
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