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IE 2135 NDAI N2/1/2/7
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Commemorative booklet produced for the visit of the Bolshoi Ballet to Ireland
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- 1963 (Creation)
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16 pp.
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(1941-2002)
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Cliodna O’Riordan and her sister Sally were among the first pupils of the Irish National Ballet School, which was set up in 1954 by Blanaid and Eoin O’Brolchain and Cecil ffrench Salkeld. The school was located at 19 Ely Place, Dublin, and its first director was Valentina Dutko. Dutko was replaced in 1956 by Patricia Ryan, during whose directorship the school evolved into the National Ballet Company.
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Commemorative booklet produced for the visit of the Bolshoi Ballet to Ireland in July-August 1963. The booklet comprises a short history of the Bolshoi and brief biographies of some of the leading dancers and the principal choreographer Leonid Lavrovsky.
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N2/12