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- 3-15 April [1979] (Creation)
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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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Colour posters designed by Robert Ballagh, advertising performances of The Playboy of the Western World by the Irish Ballet Company at the City Center 55th Street Dance Theater, [New York], on 3-15 April.
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One of the posters is faded, with foxing on the reverse.