Cork City Ballet & Ballet Through The Lens

I picked up the two of these books over the last few years and have been meaning to do a post on them for some time. They're both quite nice publications; full with enough pictures, posed and candid, to entertain even the curious mind.

"Cork City Ballet: The Story So Far" focuses on the history of the company and the life of current Artistic Director, Alan Foley, while "Ballet Through The Lens" focuses on Foley's dance relationship with Irish ballerina, Monica Loughman. Some hi-res images from that book can be found here.

I picked out some random arbitrary pages from both books, to give an idea of the content contained within. I'm not sure where the Cork City Ballet book can be bought now but I picked up Ballet Through The Lens at the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork, so I imagine that would be a good place to try.

I was inspired to finally start and complete this post by a lovely email I received recently from "Melissa" in America. I was dubious over her intentions when she mailed (so many kind words from a stranger) but she assures me she is neither a scammer or spammer :)

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