Carol Leavy Joyce
Professional

Carol is a teacher, adjudicator and grade Examiner of Irish Dance. During her dancing career she has won three World titles, three All Ireland titles and nine Ulster titles.

During her eight-year career with Riverdance she was Irish Dance Director, Assistant Director and also contributed new choreography to the show. In 2003, she was part of the Creative Team who staged the show in the Great Hall of the People in China and also in 2003 she arranged the Riverdance line of one hundred dancers as part of the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Games in Croke Park in Dublin.

Carol was Irish dance choreographer on The Pirate Queen, a new musical by Boublil and Schönberg, which had its Broadway premiere in 2007. Her work on the show, in collaboration with Graciela Daniele, received an Outer Critics Award nomination. She was choreographer on the Japanese version of The Pirate Queen that premiered at The Imperial Theatre Tokyo in November 2009, choreographer on the Norwegian production that premiered in Kolboten in Oslo in 2015 and in 2012 she choreographed an Irish production for SONG musical group which played at An Táin Arts centre in Dundalk.

In 2008, she co-created, choreographed and produced The Rising Step, an Irish dance show telling the story of dance which ran for two summer seasons in An Grianán Theatre, Co. Donegal.

Carol graduated in 2011 with an Honours Master’s degree in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick.

Carol produced, created and co-choreographed Mná na hÉireann which premiered in September 2019 at An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk in Co. Louth.

Carol is a part time Lecturer of Musical Theatre at Dundalk Institute of technology.

Carol Leavy Joyce T.C.R.G. BG. C.R.G. MA