About

Performance

I have performed internationally as a dancer, harper and storyteller — appearing with RTÉ, BBC, Mabou Mines and others, and on Irish television as a step dancer. I have performed and busked on the streets of New York City for over two decades, from Greenwich Village to the Christopher Street Pier, where my work intersected with the Ballroom House community and the living tradition of vogue.

Recent performances include who is allowed to fall at an Teach Cheoil, Ennistymon, County Clare (2025) — a performance-conversation-workshop weaving harp and step dance — and AngelAI at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick (2023), a practice-based performance sharing methods from my doctoral research into impact-driven dance.

I have taught Vogue to professional and student actors living with intellectual disability at Blue Teapot Theatre Company in Galway and to Speckled Egg Dance Company, bringing ballroom movement practice into new performance contexts.

Research and Writing

I hold a PhD in Arts Practice from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick — dissertation: Intimate Violence: Feeling Impact in Irish Step Dance, accepted without corrections by external examiner Thomas F. DeFrantz. I also hold an MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies from New York University, where I completed coursework in the founding Department of Performance Studies, and a BA in Music from Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory, with a Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from the University of Maryland.

My doctoral research examined percussive dance, embodied knowledge and the hidden Romani histories carried in Irish step dance and related traditions. I coined the concepts of impact-driven dance and hyperchronicity — the felt experience of all times in this time, and this time in all times — as frameworks for understanding how rhythm, repetition and embodied practice carry history, survival and identity across generations.

My book Feeling Impact: A Timedancers Study in Irish Step Dance (2025) is the published adaptation of this research. My chapter "This Little Wooden World: Choreonavigating Maritime Dance" appears in Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots: The Body Questions, edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). A further chapter is submitted to an edited collection on Antigypsyism (ed. Dezso Mate).

I am a Member of ERIAC (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture) and a reviewer for the International Journal of Romani Studies. I have presented at the Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, the Early Dance Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, the Critical Romani Studies Conference in Stockholm, and Columbia University, among others. I was a collaborator on Celebrate & Recalibrate Flamenco at Coventry University (2022).

Engineering and Technology

I previously served as Engineering Manager and Technical Lead at People, Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith, legacy Time Inc.) and Fortune Media, rising from engineer to manager in three and a half years. For me this was never a separate career — code is choreography and choreography is code. I approached engineering the way I approach movement: embodied, intuitive, precise. My focus was performance engineering — optimizing systems for speed and efficiency — work that is, at its core, the art of organizing time. I hold a Full-Stack Web Development certificate from Flatiron School and have extensive experience in sound engineering and music production.

Languages

English (Fluent) · Spanish (Advanced) · Irish (Advanced Beginner) · Romungró (Beginner)