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- 1980 (Creation)
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195 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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Catalogue entitled A Sense of Ireland, highlighting events in theatre, music, literature, the visual arts, film, crafts, dance, photography, architecture and archaeology at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and other venues in Ireland in 1980. Contains photographs of the Irish Ballet Company's performance of The Playboy of the Western World with the Chieftains [at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London].