Stepping out: 40 Cork ballet dancers shape up to headline show

IN THE CLICK: Dancers from Cork Youth Ballet Company, from left, Eadaoin Collins, Eve Waterstone, Yasmine O’Brien and Chloe Riordan, rehearsing for ‘Cry Me a River’, a jazz ballet for the production ‘Hanging On’. Picture Denis Minihane.
A NEW show to be performed by Cork Youth Ballet Company will have its premiere at Firkin Crane this Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27.
Andrew Wilson, head of Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Bird College, UK;
Alan Foley, artistic director of Cork City Ballet;
Jane Kellaghan, course director at Colaiste Stiofán Naofa and artistic director of CRUX Dance Company;
Patricia Crosbie, ballet mistress with Cork City Ballet and lecturer in dance at the University of Limerick;
Megan Blyth of PLAN BE Studios and daughter of the late Cork dance legend, Donna Daly Blyth;
and Robert Foley of IAB, Spain, who is from Cork.


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