Cork City Ballet - Wikipedia

Cork City Ballet
Industry	Performing arts
Founded	1992
Founder	Alan Foley
Headquarters	Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland
Key people	Alan Foley (Artistic Director), Patricia Crosbie (Ballet Mistress) Colette McNamee (Chairperson)^[1]
Revenue	127,088 Euro (2018)
Website	www.corkcityballet.com

Cork City Ballet is an Irish ballet company founded in 1992 by Alan Foley, a student of Joan Denise Moriarty.^[2] It is one of two professional ballet companies in Ireland. Cork City Ballet performs annually at Cork Opera House, staging (for example) a production of Giselle in 2011.^[3] It has also toured venues such as Wexford Opera House^[4] and The Helix in Dublin.^[5] Cork City Ballet has worked with a number of guest artists and companies such as Royal Swedish Ballet^[6] and Kirov Ballet.^[4] In 2012, Cork City Ballet commemorated the centenary of the birth of Joan Denise Moriarty, the founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland's first professional ballet company.^[7]

Notable productions

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2006 - La Bayadere (Irish tour)^{[citation needed]}
2010 - Swan Lake (For centenary of Aloys Fleischmann)
2011 - Giselle (Prelude to the Joan Denise Moriarty centenary celebrations)
2011 - Playboy of the Western World (Revival)
2012 - The Sleeping Beauty (For the centenary celebrations of Joan Denise Moriarty)^{[citation needed]}

References

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^ "Biographies". Cork City Ballet. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
^ * Foley, Alan (2008). Cork City Ballet: the story so far. Cork: KWP. p. 15. ISBN 9780955153129.
^ Leland, Mary. "Giselle". Irish Times. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ ^a ^b Kerrigan, Jo. "Russian star dancers all set to lift our spirits". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ "Dance: What's On". Emigrant.ie. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ Hayes Curtin, Brian. "Swedish ballet star set for Cork". Cork Independent. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ Murray, Katie. "Cork Profile: Lavinia Anderson". Cork Independent. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

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