Welcome!
 Máire Clerkin is an actor, Irish Dancer, choreographer, writer and teacher. From London of Irish parents, she moved to sunny California in 2003. It's a home from home. In 2008, her one-woman comedy play The Bad Arm - Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer, was LA Weekly's Theater Pick and after enjoying a huge hit with it in 2010 at both Hollywood and Chicago Fringe Festivals, Maire wowed them at Dublin's Ceim Eile Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival in 2011. Watch out for touring news in 2012!
Máire works as a Teaching Artist for Los Angeles Music Center and Segerstrom Center For The Arts. In 2007 Máire staged A Gaelic Gathering at Walt Disney Concert Hall for The Music Center's World City festival and her group is now delighted to return on March 19th 2011. She leads a school assemblies program A Gaelic Gathering Irish Music and Dance.
Over the years, she has choreographed for Theatre Royal Drury Lane, New York's Radio City Music Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Opera House and toured her own theatre companies in the UK and Ireland.
An adjudicator with the Irish Dancing Commission in Dublin, Máire's teaching credits include Limerick University, Loyola Marymount University, DV8 Physical Theatre, California Dance Educators, Scripps College, and Los Angeles Unified Schools District.
 Since moving to Los Angeles, Máire has been honored to work among high quality artists and arts organizations. She loves creating dance theatre and has enjoyed success both in her solo show 'The Bad Arm' and in the Dance Drama pieces choreographed for Feiseanna (Irish dance competitions).
Double Jigs? Double chins? Double gins?
Máire's passion for traditional Irish music comes through in her choreography. She has been privileged to work with fabulous musicians on both sides of the ocean. In 2003, Máire left behind a tremendous pub scene in London with its rich history of seisiuns that stretched into the night. Arriving in Los Angeles, she was delighted to find a wealth of people playing fiddles, whistles, pipes, bodhrans, and banjos, in a town more famous for facelifts than craic. Pass the botox!
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