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- 6-11 February 1978 (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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Programme accompanying the Irish Ballet Company’s fifth season of performances at Cork Opera House on 6-11 February 1978. The repertoire included Konservatoriet, Offering, Chariots of Fire and Concerto Grosso. With a related amendments slip.