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Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG
Louise Corrigan TCRG
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Niall O'Leary School of Irish Dance welcomes
Louise Corrigan TCRG
Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG is from Dublin Ireland. A former All-Ireland and World Champion, he founded the Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance in Dublin in 1995, in the New York metropilitan area in 1996 and in Florida in 2007. The School is currently the largest in New York City.
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Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG!
Classes are offered in New York City: Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, New Jersey and Panama City, Pensacola and Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle all year round for children and adults at all levels in solo step dancing, team and ceili dancing and dance drama. Private classes and Workshops are also offered.
Our goal is excellence in Irish Dance.
Currently accepting new students for Summer and Fall 2009 childrens' and adults' classes: Please email nialloleary@ireland.com or call 212-726-1602 for further information.
Check out the recent feature on the School in the Irish Echo newspaper:
O'Leary harnesses the spirit of the dance
Daily New feature:
5 Questions for an Irish Dancer: Niall O'Leary
Niall O'Leary's Irish dance teachers included Kevin Massey—proclaimed by Michael Flately to be the greatest Irish dancer ever, and Rory O’Connor—the first man to do Irish dancing on the radio, and his daughters Breda and Ann O'Connor.
Niall O’Leary qualified as an Irish dance instructor in 1994 and as an Irish dance adjudicator in 2006. He is registered as an nIrish Dance Teacher and Adjudicator with the Irish Dancing Commission in Dublin and is a member of the IDTANA, the IDTANA Mid-Atlantic Region, the IDTANA Southern Region and the Leinster Dance Teachers’ Association.
In 1996 he put together and choreographed the first ever multi-national team to compete in the World Irish Dance Championships, including dancers from Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Botswana, USA and Ireland. He has also choreographed shows for Comhaltas in Dublin and in the US and Irish dance routines for Pfizer’s Corporate Show. In 1998 and 2009 he choreographed a 6 minute dance-drama for the World Irish Dance Championships.
The Niall O’Leary Irish Dance Troupe have performed at the St. Patrick’s Day Ball in the Plaza Hotel Manhattan, The Winter Garden at the World Financial Center NYC, the American-Ireland Fund dinner, AIB corporate dinner, ‘Worldfest ’99’ in Rockland County, Union Square in Manhattan and in summer 2001 did a hugely successful tour of Japan, performing in such prestigious venues as Osaka Festival Hall.
The school has been featured on NBC TV, CBS Radio, The New York Times, The Daily News (St. Patrick’s Day 1998), The Irish Emigrant, Home and Away, The Chelsea Clinton News in Manhattan, various Queens papers and Fuji TV (Japan).
The school performs regularily at festivals and fairs, such as the New York City Irish Dance Festival and Woodside Street Fair.
Niall O’Leary performs regularly as a solo artist, in duet with Darrah Carr, and with various acts such as Natalie MacMaster, Cherish The Ladies, The Prodigals, The Andy Cooney Band, Atlantic Wave, The McCabes and Mick Moloney's Green Fields of America.
He is in constant demand as a choreographer and master instructor and conducts regular workshops around the US, Canada, Ireland, Japan and Mexico. He has made a CD and an instructional video in Irish step dancing entitled 'Cuts from the Kitchen'. He is the founding chairman of Ull Mor CCE, the Manhattan branch of Comhaltas.
He is a feis musician, playing accordion and keyboards, and also plays spoons and bodhrán. In addition, he practices as an architect.
The latest Niall O'Leary Irish Dance instruction video, "Cuts from the Kitchen"—'from beginner to championship in 1 1/2 hours', is currently available. It features six Irish dances taught and performed, all reels, three hardshoe and three softshoe. The video includes master tips on style, technique, steps and composition. It is unique in that while it is suitable for beginners, difficult softshoe and hardshoe moves are also taught, such as syncopated rhythms and combinations involving triple-clicks. Click here to order
Check out the review of 'Summer in the Square' Irish dance concert in the New York Times:
DANCE REVIEW; Stepping Off For a Romp In the Park
For further information call or email Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG at 212-726-1602 or nialloleary@ireland.com
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from Dublin, Ireland
and now master instructor, choreographer, and soloist
in New York,
Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG
Niall O'Leary TCRG, ADCRG
212-726-1602
