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 (Chairperson) [1] |
Revenue | 127,088 Euro (2018) |
Website |
www |
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]