About
Laura Murphy is an award winning choreographer and dance artist based in Ireland. Taking an expansive approach to dance, she developed a multi-disciplinary dance practice, working in stage performance, film, installation and large scale, socially engaged projects. With her trademark all female casts, her work has been described as gentle and eccentric.
Collaboration lies at the heart of her practice, creating connections with wide network of artists, communities and contexts. Over the past number of years she has worked with dance artists to include Colin Dunne, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Rob Heaslip, Mary Nunan, Jean Butler, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and Joan Davis; visual artists Gemma Riggs, Astrid Walsh and Rhona Byrne; composers Matteo Fargion, Irene Buckley, Michael Gallen and Alma Kelleher, and animator Alan Early.
Laura Murphy Dance has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries such as Tanzmesse (DE), Fira Tàrrega (ES), Reykjavik Dance Festival (IS), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Judson Church (US), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO), NN Contemporary Northampton (UK), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (US), Dublin Dance Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival (IRL). Her large scale site specific work 'Abacus' was recently selected to present at FiraTarrega, Spain (2021) and Tanzmesse, Germany (2022), and toured Colombia, South America (2024).
Laura has been the recipient of numerous National Arts Council awards, as well as several prestigious national and international residencies. She was awarded Best Movement Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017 for her work on 'Whitby' at the Bram Stoker Festival with Joan Sheehy and Colin Dunne. In 2026, her animated film 'Jean' won Best Experimental Film at Paris International Animation Festival.
Laura's teaching is rooted in her choreographic and in embodied dance practices, along with her specialisation in
Choreological Studies, the contemporary practices of Rudolf Laban. She teaches at University level, masterclass and
individual mentoring contexts. She is currently an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at the school of Creative Arts, Trinity College,
Dublin.
Since 2024, Laura has been co-curator for Light Moves Festival of Screendance and Studio Light Moves, Limerick, Ireland.
Laura Murphy is an award winning choreographer and dance artist based in Ireland. Taking an expansive approach to dance, she developed a multi-disciplinary dance practice, working in stage performance, film, installation and large scale, socially engaged projects. With her trademark all female casts, her work has been described as gentle and eccentric.
Collaboration lies at the heart of her practice, creating connections with wide network of artists, communities and contexts. Over the past number of years she has worked with dance artists to include Colin Dunne, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Rob Heaslip, Mary Nunan, Jean Butler, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and Joan Davis; visual artists Gemma Riggs, Astrid Walsh and Rhona Byrne; composers Matteo Fargion, Irene Buckley, Michael Gallen and Alma Kelleher, and animator Alan Early.
Laura Murphy Dance has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries such as Tanzmesse (DE), Fira Tàrrega (ES), Reykjavik Dance Festival (IS), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Judson Church (US), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO), NN Contemporary Northampton (UK), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (US), Dublin Dance Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival (IRL). Her large scale site specific work 'Abacus' was recently selected to present at FiraTarrega, Spain (2021) and Tanzmesse, Germany (2022), and toured Colombia, South America (2024).
Laura has been the recipient of numerous National Arts Council awards, as well as several prestigious national and international residencies. She was awarded Best Movement Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017 for her work on 'Whitby' at the Bram Stoker Festival with Joan Sheehy and Colin Dunne. In 2026, her animated film 'Jean' won Best Experimental Film at Paris International Animation Festival.
Laura's teaching is rooted in her choreographic and in embodied dance practices, along with her specialisation in
Choreological Studies, the contemporary practices of Rudolf Laban. She teaches at University level, masterclass and
individual mentoring contexts. She is currently an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at the school of Creative Arts, Trinity College,
Dublin.
Since 2024, Laura has been co-curator for Light Moves Festival of Screendance and Studio Light Moves, Limerick, Ireland.
