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Welcome!
 Máire Clerkin is an actor, Irish Dancer, choreographer, writer and teacher. From London of Irish parents, she moved to sunny California five years ago. 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.
Máire works as a Teaching Artist for Los Angeles Music Center and Orange County Performing Arts. In 2007 Máire staged A Gaelic Gathering at Walt Disney Concert Hall for The Music Center's World City festival. 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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