HOWDY,
THIS IS SIOBHAN.

Informed by decades of field work in traditional percussive dances, Siobhan’s work as a performer and educator has taken her to stages and institutions around the world, in addition to founding the online Irish dance education platform, Bánóg.
She has been privileged to collaborate with renowned music and dance artists such as Nuala Kennedy, Nic Gareiss, Tony DeMarco, Steve Cooney, Sandy Silva, Kieran Jordan, and many more.
Siobhan’s dance style is heavily influenced by some of County Clare’s greatest Set dancers and their unique “battering” style. She uses this influence along with her background in other percussive dance forms to design her own unique voice as an artist. 

Siobhan is a passionate advocate for further developing the intersection between traditional dance and music and therefore frames much of her performance and teaching work around the musicality of traditional dance. She also campaigns for percussive dance and dancers being represented in spaces generally oriented towards music like festivals and in audio recordings, in addition to presenting Irish dance from a holistic lens. Her goal as an educator is to show that Irish dances are fundamental to the heritage of Ireland while also being a catalyst from which we can create a more inclusive and equitable identity of Irish culture. 

Siobhan has a BA in Anthropology from Goddard College (USA) and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick (IRE).

Siobhan’s creations draw from the ephemeral qualities of movement, local traditions, and nature, finding inspiration in the interconnectedness of dance, music, landscape, and people.
Her work has been seen at MassArt in Boston, Massachusetts and in publications like The Stranger Times, Ireland.
Her visual art practice is primarily based in the medium of cyanotype, an early photographic process, but she also creates work in ceramics, paint, and textiles.