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1975
 
    
Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague       
1976
 
     
Mikhail Baryshnikov dances in the New York premiere of Twyla Tharp's ballet Push Comes to Shove        
1976
 
     
Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin        
1978
 
     
Kenneth MacMillan turns a double suicide of 1889 into a ferociously dramatic ballet, Mayerling        
1980
 
   
US choreographer Mark Morris founds his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, based in New York      
1981
 
   
16-year-old ballerina Sylvie Guillem joins the Paris Opera Ballet      
1983
 
    
Rudolf Nureyev begins a successful 6-year period as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet       
1984
 
    
US choreographer William Forsythe becomes director of the Frankfurt Ballet       
1987
 
     
Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire dance in the Paris premiere of William Forsythe's In the middle somewhat elevated        
1989
 
   
The English National Ballet evolves from London's Festival Ballet