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| 1946 | |||
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| 1951 | |||
| 1952 | Serge Lifar, performance in Japan | ||
| 1953 | |||
| 1954 | Martha Graham Dance Company, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1955 | |||
| 1956 | Lirica italiana, first performance invited by NHK | Brecht deceased Osborne “Look Back in Anger” first performed |
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| 1957 | DAN Ikuma “Yuzuru” Europe premiere | Bolshoi Theatre Ballet, first performance in Japan | |
| 1958 | AOYAMA Yoshio directs “Madama Butterfly” at the Metropolitan Opera, New York | New York City Ballet, first performance in Japan | Moscow Arts Theatre, first performance in Japan |
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| 1960 | Kirov Theatre Ballet (later Mariinsky Theatre Ballet), first performance in Japan | ||
| 1961 | Opéra national de Paris, first performance in Japan | Rudolf Nureyev exiles from the Soviet Union to France Royal Ballet, first performance in Japan |
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| 1962 | Comédie-Française, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1963 | Deutsche Oper Berlin, first performance in Japan | Opéra national de Paris（Ballet）, first performance in Japan | |
| 1964 | Merce Cunningham Dance Company, first performance in Japan | ||
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| 1967 | |||
| 1968 | American Ballet Theatre, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1969 | FUKAGAWA Hideo wins the Silver at the 1st Moscow International Ballet Competition and receives the Nijinsky Award | Tenjo Sajiki, first overseas performance in Frankfurt | |
| 1970 | Royal Shakespeare Company, first performance in Japan Tokyo Kid Brothers advances to the New York Off-Off Broadway |
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| 1973 | 1st International Ballet Competition Prix de Lausanne held | Waseda Shogekijo performs at the Nancy International Theatre Festival | |
| 1974 | Bayerishe Staatsoper, München first performance in Japan | MORISHITA Yoko wins the Gold at the Varna International Ballet Competition | |
| 1975 | Metropolitan Opera, New York first performance in Japan | “The Dead Class” directed by Tadeusz Kantor, first performance | |
| 1976 | MAYUZUMI Toshiro “Kinkakuji” premieres in Berlin | ||
| 1977 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1978 | Ballet de Marseille (later Ballet National de Marseille Roland Petit), first performance in Japan “Yami no maihime junitai - ruburukyu no tame no juyonban(Fortnight for the Louvre Place - Twelve Phases of Dancing Princess of Darkness)” choreographed by HIJIKATA Tatsumi performed at the Festival d'Automne à Paris |
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| 1979 | UK's Royal Opera House, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1980 | Wiener Staatsoper, first performance in Japan | HORIUCHI Gen wins the Scholarship Award and so forth at the Prix de Lausanne OHNO Kazuo participates at the Nancy International Theatre Festival |
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| 1981 | Teatro alla Scala, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1982 | Toga International Arts Festival, the first international drama festival in Japan, launched | ||
| 1983 | YOSHIDA Miyako, HORIUCHI Jyu wins the Scholarship Award at the Prix de Lausanne | “Medea” performed in Greece and so forth | |
| 1984 | MORISHITA Yoko, BANDO Tamasaburo appears in the Metropolitan Opera’s 100th Anniversary Gala Concert | ||
| 1985 | |||
| 1986 | Pina Bausch / Tanztheater Wuppertal, first performance in Japan Tchaikovsky Memorial Tokyo Ballet premieres《The Kabuki》choreographed by Maurice Béjart first performed | ||
| 1987 | Yume no Yuminsha performs at the Edinburgh International Festival, “Ninagawa Macbeth” performed in London | ||
| 1988 | SUZUKI Tadashi directs “King Lear” performed by an ensemble of four American theaters and tours the US | ||
| 1989 | KUMAKAWA Tetsuya wins the Best Special Award at the Prix de Lausanne HORIUCHI Gen, promoted to the principal dancer of the New York City Ballet |
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| 1990 | Tokyo Nikikai performs “Madama Butterfly” “Shunkin-sho” at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland | Netherlands Dance Theatre, first performance in Japan | |
| 1991 | William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballet, first performance in Japan | ||
| 1992 | 1st Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto held | ||
| 1993 | Rudolf Nureyev deceased IWATA Morihiro wins the Gold in the men's senior group at the Moscow International Ballet Competition |
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| 1994 | 1st BeSeTo Theater Festival held in Seoul in the Japanese-Chinese-Korean collaboration | ||
| 1995 | YOSHIDA Miyako, transferred to the Royal Ballet as a principal dancer | Heiner Müller deceased 1st Theatre Olympics held in Greece |
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| 1997 | New National Theatre, Tokyo established | ||