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- 20 October 2016 (Creation)
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Dr Catherine Foley is a dancer and musician. Her undergraduate degree is in music from Cork (NUI) and she holds a doctorate in ethnochoreology (Irish traditional step dance) from London. She worked as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance for Muckross House, Killarney, Co. Kerry, and has lectured, performed, published and given workshops internationally. She designed the MA Ethnochoreology and the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance courses at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, and acted as director of both courses until her retirement in 2019. Catherine was instrumental in the establishment and development of the National Dance Archive of Ireland and served as its first director. She is also founder and Chair Emerita of Dance Research Forum Ireland.
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Donated to the National Dance Archive of Ireland by Dr Catherine Foley in 2019.
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Recording of an interview with Patricia Crosbie, a ballet dancer and dance teacher. Crosbie discusses her early introduction to ballet, her training with Joan Denise Moriarty, and her time with the Cork Ballet Company and the Irish Ballet Company (later Irish National Ballet). She describes her most memorable roles, including the Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World and Odette/ Odile in Swan Lake. She describes her subsequent career as a dancer in London, which included choreographing for and touring with the rock band The Kinks, her subsequent return to Cork in the late 1990s, and her role as Ballet Mistress, teacher and choreographer for Cork City Ballet. Crosbie concludes by sharing her memories of touring in the former Yugoslavia and in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Duration 00:29:50.
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- Béarla