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- 1968 (Creation)
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8 pp.
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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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Souvenir programme accompanying Cork Ballet Company’s 21st birthday production of The Sleeping Princess. The programme incorporates a history of the dance company and a list of their productions between 1947 and 1967. Additional comments to the programme have been made by hand by Patricia Crosbie.
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Paper document with some fraying and water damage.