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Reference code
IE 2135 NDAI N4/1/2/1/1
Title
Brochure promoting the Irish Ballet Company
Date(s)
- c. 1975-1976 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
16 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
(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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Scope and content
Brochure promoting the Irish Ballet Company, containing short articles by Seamus Kelly, Noel Goodwin and Mary Leland; a list of the company's repertoire; and black and white photographs of performances.