Clare Byrne
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Dancer |
| Location | Vermont, United States |
| Introduction | Clare Byrne is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. Her company has performed in New York City at PS 122, Danspace Project, Joe's Pub, The Flea, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, DTW, BAX, among other venues. Clare Byrne's work includes The St. Patrick Pageant, Wet Blue & Friends, Rend and Sew, Tetrapod, Rounds: The First Last Dance, or The Last First Dance, or An Ordination, and Appalachian Spring. Clare Byrne Dance was a company-in-residence at the Yard on Martha's Vineyard where Byrne was also a choreographer Bessie Schönberg Residency. The company has received grants or residencies from Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Joyce SoHo and White Oak in Yulee, FL, CCDE's Silo Residency, The Dragon's Egg in Ledyard, CT, and The Flynn Center for the Arts in Burlington, VT. Byrne was a Jerome Robbins Fellow in Dance at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy. She teaches at the University of Vermont, and gathers a dance order, The Poor Sister Clares Traveling Monk Show, to perform in various locations in Vermont each summer. |