The Australian Ballet was a new challenge for me.
Some of my most satisfying performances happened in those last three years with the Australian Ballet.
However, the Australian Ballet wanted me to continue to dance.
Tankard's professional career began as a dancer with the Australian Ballet at the end of 1975.
The cause was melanoma, the Australian Ballet said in a statement.
He had attempted to do the same as director of the Australian Ballet from 1997 to 2001.
She was appointed to the Board of the Australian Ballet in 1994.
He played piano for some time with the Australian Ballet.
His friends from the Australian Ballet have come to see him rehearse, and finally grasp what he is trying to do.
Yet steadily and surely, the Australian Ballet reached the top.