Cork City Ballet

Cork City Ballet
Industry	Performing arts
Founded	1992
Founder	Alan Foley
Headquarters	Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland
Key people	Alan Foley (Artistic Director), Patricia Crosbie (Ballet Mistress), Colette McNamee (PR)
Website	www.corkcityballet.com

The Firkin Crane, in the Shandon area of Cork City, is a permanent base for Cork City Ballet, Crux Dance Theatre and other dance activities

Cork City Ballet is an Irish ballet company founded by Alan Foley, a student of Joan Denise Moriarty, in 1992.^[1] It is one of two professional ballet companies in Ireland. Cork City Ballet annually performs at Cork Opera House, most recently with a production of Giselle.^[2] It has toured venues such as Wexford Opera House,^[3] The Helix ^[4] Tralee's Siamsa Tire and University Concert Hall, Limerick. Cork City Ballet has worked with a number of guest artists and companies such as Royal Swedish Ballet^[5] and Kirov Ballet.^[3] In 2012, Cork City Ballet commemorated the centenary of the birth of Joan Denise Moriarty, the founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland's first professional ballet company.^[6]

Notable productions[]

2006 - La Bayadere (Irish tour)^{[citation needed]}

2010 - Swan Lake (For centenary of Aloys Fleischmann)

2011 - Giselle (Prelude to the Joan Denise Moriarty centenary celebrations)

2011 - Playboy of the Western World (Revival)

2012 - The Sleeping Beauty (For the centenary celebrations of Joan Denise Moriarty)^{[citation needed]}

References[]

Sources[]

Foley, Alan (2008). Cork City Ballet: the story so far. Cork: KWP. ISBN 9780955153129.

Notes[]

^ Foley 2008, p. 15.
^ Mary Leland. "Giselle". Irish Times. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Jo Kerrigan. "Russian star dancers all set to lift our spirits". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ "Dance: What's On". Emigrant.ie. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ Brian Hayes Curtin. "Swedish ballet star set for Cork". Cork Independent. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ Katie Murray. "Cork Profile: Lavinia Anderson". Cork Independent. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

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