Laura Murphy
Professional
Laura Murphy is an award-winning choreographer, a performer and a teacher based in Ireland.
Taking an expansive approach to dance, her work also includes theatre, film, video installations, and site-specific performances.
Laura Murphy Dance has been presented at Fira Tàrrega (ES), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Judson Church (US), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO), Dublin Dance Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival (IRL) and most recently at Tanzmesse (DE) 2022.
As a teacher, Laura was the acting director of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at the University of Limerick (2015) and currently teaches on the BA Drama and Theatre Studies in Trinity College, Dublin.
Laura was awarded Best Movement Director, The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017 for Joan Sheehy 's Whitby’ featuring Colin Dunne. Recent works include ‘Abacus’ Tanzmesse 2022; ‘The Shake’ at Dublin Dance Festival 2022; ‘It’s All Up in the Air on Bogland’, an RTE commission for Culture Night 2022, in collaboration with Rhona Byrne.
In 2024, Laura works as Associate Director to Jean Butler's ‘What We Hold’ presenting at the Irish Arts Centre, New York, and as a performer in 'Garden as Gallery' by Joan Davis. She will premier her multidisciplinary work 'This is it | 8 portraits in Dance' in Spring 2024.
Photo Credits:
Headshot: Koen Broos
Abacus: Clare Keogh
Tide: Luca Truffarelli
The Shake: Pato Cassinoni
