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- 1987-2011 (Creation)
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131 items
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Fiona Quilligan was born in Dublin and studied dance at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and the London School of Contemporary Dance. She performed with Dublin City Ballet before founding Rubato Ballet in 1986. Her vision for this collective of professional dance artists was to create new Irish dance works and to pioneer links with related art disciplines, such as music, art, poetry and sculpture. The company achieved high critical acclaim both in Ireland and abroad and was the recipient of the Nijinsky Medal from the Polish Artists Agency Warsaw (1990), the AIB Better Ireland Award for Arts and Culture (1992), and the ESB Environmental Awareness Award (1999).
In 1992, the company founded Rubato Community Arts Project in association with FÁS, which employed 14 artists to provide experiences of dance, music and painting for primary and secondary school children and to establish a role for artists in the community. Rubato Ballet was wound down in 2003, and a year later Quilligan continued her career as a freelance choreographer. More information on Fiona Quilligan and Rubato Ballet can be found at https://www.fionaquilligan.info/.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Fiona Quilligan to the National Dance Archive of Ireland on 12 April 2011. Additional items received on 26 April and on 16 and 31 May 2011.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Posters, programmes, flyers, press cuttings and photographs relating to the performances and other activities of Rubato Ballet and Fiona Quilligan’s subsequent career as a freelance choreographer.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
All records have been retained.
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
Arranged into two series (Rubato Ballet and Fiona Quilligan) and thereunder chronologically by choreography and/ or thematically by activity.
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access to all items.
Conditions governing reproduction
Standard copyright regulations apply to all items. For photocopying or reproducing material, please consult with the staff.
Language of material
- English
- Irish
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Mainly paper documents and photographs in good condition.
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- Quilligan, Fiona (b. 1958), dancer and choreographer (Subject)
- Rubato Ballet (Subject)
- Sibley, Judith, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher (Subject)
- Bolger, David (b. 1968), dancer and choreographer (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd edition (2000), Irish Guidelines for Archival Description (2009), National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (1997) and EAP Guidance on Data Protection for Archive Services (2018).
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Archivist's note
Papers arranged and described by Anna-Maria Hajba in June 2011 and updated in March 2020.