New York City Ballet in September 2015. New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946. In a 1946 letter, Kirstein stated, "The only justification I have is to enable Balanchine
Cork City Ballet the birth of Joan Denise Moriarty, the founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland's first professional ballet company. 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) Foley, Alan."Cork City Ballet: The Story So Far." KWP. 2008. Cork City Ballet Cork City Ballet is an Irish ballet company founded by Alan Foley, a disciple of Joan Denise Moriarty, in 1992. It is one of two professional ballet companies