Cork City Ballet Explained
Cork City Ballet is an Irish ballet company founded in 1992 by Alan Foley, a student of Joan Denise Moriarty.[2] It is one of two professional ballet companies in Ireland. Cork City Ballet performs annually at Cork Opera House, staging (for example) a production of Giselle in 2011.[3] It has also toured venues such as Wexford Opera House[4] and The Helix in Dublin.[5] Cork City Ballet has worked with a number of guest artists and companies such as Royal Swedish Ballet[6] and Kirov Ballet.[4] 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.[7]
Notable productions
- 2006 - La Bayadere (Irish tour)
- 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)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Biographies. Cork City Ballet. 29 October 2022.
- Book: Foley, Alan . Cork City Ballet: the story so far . KWP . 2008 . Cork . 9780955153129 . 15 .
- Web site: Giselle. Irish Times. Mary . Leland. 20 March 2012.
- Web site: Russian star dancers all set to lift our spirits. Jo . Kerrigan. Irish Examiner. 20 March 2012.
- Web site: Dance: What's On. Emigrant.ie. 20 March 2012.
- Web site: Swedish ballet star set for Cork. Cork Independent. Brian . Hayes Curtin. 20 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121016224610/http://corkindependent.com/stories/item/8002/2012-11/Swedish-ballet-star-set-for-Cork-appearance. 16 October 2012. dead.
- Web site: Cork Profile: Lavinia Anderson. Katie . Murray. Cork Independent. 20 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191730/http://corkindependent.com/stories/item/7308/2012-6/Cork-Profile-Lavinia-Anderson. 11 May 2012. dead.
