Deirdre Grant
Photograph by Pádraig David Grant

DEIRDRE GRANT Biography:

Deirdre Grant has a BA(Hons) degree in Dance with Education from Middlesex University, London. She also has post-graduate training in Community & Youth Dance.
Deirdre is co-founder of Myriad Dance and has been an artistic director since 1999, where she has been at the fore-front of developing Contemporary Dance regionally in Ireland.

Her choreographic credits with the company include:
Broken Masque 1999
Together from Shortcuts & Storylines' 2000
In an Instant 2001
Adventures in E<motional Pictures 2002
Scramble 2002

Rainbow 2003
Mutation 2004.


Deirdre has vast experience as a dance practitioner and has been Dance Artist in Residence in Wexford, Mayo, Waterford, Carlow and Harrisburg, Pennyslyanvia.
She has lectured at Trinity College and WIT (Waterford Institute of Technology) and is currently Project Director for the Pulse Youth Dance Programme (run in conjunction with Wexford County Council,Ireland).