Cork City Ballet

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]

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 (Chairperson)[1]
Revenue	127,088 euro (2018)
Total assets	22,853 euro (2021)
Number of employees	0 (2021, 2022)
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

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]}

See also

• Ballet Ireland