Series 1 - Joan Denise Moriarty's Ballet Companies

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IE 2135 NDAI N4/1

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Joan Denise Moriarty's Ballet Companies

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  • 1968-1992 (Creation)

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3 sub-series

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(1958-)

Biographical history

Patricia Crosbie was born in Cork in 1958 and began her early dance training in Joan Denise Moriarty’s school of dance. She danced with Cork Ballet Company, founded by Moriarty in 1947; and in the Irish Ballet Company, founded by Moriarty in 1973 and renamed Irish National Ballet in 1983. Her many roles included Odette/ Odile in Swan Lake; Sugar Plum Fairy/ Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, and Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World. She is ballet mistress with Cork City Ballet.

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Programmes, posters, flyers, brochures, photographs and publications relating to Cork Ballet Company, Irish Ballet Company and Irish National Ballet founded by Joan Denise Moriarty.

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This series has been divided into three sub-series by ballet company, arranged chronologically by date of foundation.

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  • English
  • Slovenian

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