Irish Dance University of Limerick

Overview

The Irish Dance course from the University of Limerick will allow you to develop your performance skills. You will also be able to develop your scholarly knowledge and enquiry around traditional Irish dance. However, and very importantly, you will be introduced to other performance practices and scholarly traditions in order to gain new insights into the worlds of music and dance, enhancing your creative potential. You will also study a number of vocationally focused modules aimed at allowing you to translate your artistic and scholarly creativity into a fulfilling career.   

As a student, you will be based at the world-class facilities of the Irish World Academy building, equipped to the highest standards with cutting edge performance and rehearsal spaces and technological infrastructure. The co-operative education period allows you to construct your own work-experience, giving you invaluable experience of the opportunities open to you when you graduate.   

The programme prepares you for many different career paths including professional performance; further study; work in cultural institutions; media related posts; archival work; performance production; portfolio careers combining the preceding and others in entrepreneurial ways.

Career opportunities:

• Professional performer (traditional, interdisciplinary contexts)
• Choreographer / dance-maker
• Further study (MA, PhD in dance, arts practice, ethnochoreology, performance studies)
• Dance education and teaching (studio, school, third-level pathways)
• Community dance and participatory arts practice
• Dance and movement facilitation (youth, social, wellbeing, inclusive settings)
• Arts administration and producing (dance companies, festivals, organisations)
• Performance management and touring coordination
• Rehearsal direction and assistant choreography/direction
• Creative consultancy for dance-based projects (heritage, contemporary, cross-arts)
• Media and screen-based dance work (film, TV, digital platforms)
• Work in cultural institutions, heritage projects, and archives (dance documentation, curation)