Croi Glan Integrated Dance

Today we are delighted to announce Bobbi Byrne as the new Co-Artistic Director with Tara Brandel of Croi Glan Integrated Dance!!

As a wonderfully talented artist with enormous amounts of experience in the integrated dance world, we know Bobbi will add so much to the company.

Congratulations Bobbi!

Photo: (from L to R)
Producer Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin w/
Co-Artistic Directors Bobbi & Tara

Read more about our new Co-AD here:

Bobbi Byrne is a disabled, transfeminine dance artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She was one of the first professional disabled dancers in the country and was a core member of Counterbalance, Ireland's first Inclusive dance company, for over a decade. She has worked closely with the SMARTlab inclusive design laboratory, co-devising and touring in various award winning shows at events such as the Special Olympics and World summit of Innovation. Bobbi also spent several years in Spain working with inclusive dance companies Dan Zass and Meet Share Dance.

Unifying Bobbi's practice is a passion for diversity and inclusion in dance and a fascination with the unique movement vocabularies of each individual body. Her own impairment, a unilateral below elbow difference, has made her keenly interested in exploring ideas of asymmetry and imbalance and how these qualities interact with the assumptions of much dance practice.

In 2024 Bobbi completed the Inclusive Dance Cork training programme at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. She also received both the Agility Award and Arts Council Dance Bursary and travelled to Helsinki to work with Finnish choreographer Ervi Siren. A duet based on material from a Dance Ireland residency with Derry based dance artist Soso Ní Cheallaigh, "Variations for Two Disabled Bodies", was commissioned by the Project Arts Centre under the Europe Beyond Access programme and premiered at the recent Dublin Fringe Festival 2025.