Eimear Byrne
Professional

Eimear Byrne (BA hons Dance, MA Contemporary Dance Performance) is a dance artist from Ireland and works professionally as a dancer, teacher and choreographer working for the past 12 years in the dance industry.

She was chosen to dance the female role in the repertoire of ‘Coupled Reflections’ by the Artistic Directors of Dance Theatre of Ireland, Robert Connor and Loretta Yurick in 2016/17. This was part of the ‘Live Archive Project’ curated by Emma Meehan in which the company’s (DCDT) 30 years of work was celebrated, this toured nationally.

She recently received a Professional Development Award (Dance) from the Arts Council of Ireland and performed ‘Two Can Do’, a post dance duet by choreographer Bianca Paige Smith (USA) at Greywood Arts (October 2021). She has been engaged with ‘Two Can Do’ performing the work across Ireland and the US over the last few years. In 2019 ‘Two Can Do’ had performances at Gibney, Broadway, NYC (January 2019) Green Space Queens NYC and Art House Productions in Jersey City (June 2019). She finished up with an Irish summer tour of the award winning duet- ‘Two Can Do’ where she performed at Nun’s Island Galway, D Light Studios Dublin, The Hunt Museum Limerick and St. Peter’s Cork, Cork (August 2019). Her choreographic work ‘Renewal’ was performed both nationally and internationally in 2017/18 in both Ireland and the UK. She has also worked with choreographer Mihaela Griveva (Bulgaria) researching and training in Gaga influenced techniques and exercises while undertaking choreographic research labs with other professional dancers.

She is the Dance Course Coordinator & Contemporary Dance Tutor at Bray Institute of Further Education and was selected two years running to be part of the prestigious Pushkin Trust project founded by The Royal Duchess of Abercorn.