1980 Boston Ballet performs in China, Violette Verdy becomes Co-Artistic Director, Rudolf Nureyev joins the company for La Sylphide....click here for more
1981 Boston Ballet performs the company's first full-length Swan Lake, and tours to London for the first time...click here for more
1983 Verdy becomes Artistic Director, Nureyev tours with Boston Ballet, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra is officially established...click here for more
1984 Boston Ballet honors the memory of founder E. Virginia Williams with the premiere of a new production of Romeo and Juliet....click here for more
1985 Marks becomes Artistic Director and the company stages works by Wells and Monte.....click here for more
1987 Boston Ballet presents the company premiere of The Kirov version of Giselle, Bujones comes to Boston, and the capital campaign is announced....click here for more
1988 Boston Ballet presents "The Scandinavians", Jonathan McPhee becomes Music Director, and the Pennock comes down....click here for more
1989 Boston Ballet closes the decade with a celebration of 25 years as Boston's first professional ballet company....click here for more