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Ronan McCormack

Ronan McCormack is one of the worlds most sought after Irish Dance choreographers. He began his training at the age of 3 in Dublin and before long he was competing at feiseanna in Ireland and the U.K. The following 20 years saw a competitive career, which included Irish, British, North American and World successes.

Ronan is also an accomplished musician and in 1994 graduated form the Waterford Institute of Technology with a B.A. Music degree. It was during his last year at college that he was chosen to be a part of the original Riverdance troupe for the Eurovision Song contest and subsequently toured the UK, USA and Canada with Riverdance-The Show. Not only did he dance with the show, he also played keyboards with the Riverdance orchestra.

He returned to Ireland in 2000 to sit the TCRG examination, and followed this with the ADCRG, adjudicator's diploma. Over the past five years, he has traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia, mainland Europe and the USA choreographing for both competitive dancers as well as performing companies and he is constantly in demand to adjudicate both at home and internationally. Having also trained in Tap and Modern dance, Ronan has appeared on all the major TV shows in Ireland and featured as a "dancing giant" in the Miramax movie production of Ella Enchanted. Most recently Ronan choreographed a production for Det Norske Teatret, Norway's state theatre company and was seen as one of the professional dance partners on the RTE show "Celebrity Jigs n' Reels".