Teaching Clients Include:
The Stratford Festival, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the University of Waterloo, GreenLight Arts, NTS's Ontario Drama Festival (formerly Sears Festival), Button Factory Arts Centre, Star Performance Academy, Tir Na Nog School of Irish Dance, Family and Children Services of the Region of Waterloo.
I've been teaching for half of my life and always enjoy it! I've taught dance and drama to students literally ranging from 4 to 64 years of age at the competitive, professional, university, and recreational levels.
You can contact me here.
"Ciaran is a perceptive and inclusive instructor with a unique ability to inspirit a fun, open, inspiring, and safe environment. I greatly value the time I spent learning from Ciaran and often find myself reflecting back to our sessions. I highly recommend him."
"Ciarán is a wonderful light in the classroom. He taught me adult Irish, and he was always encouraging me to jump higher. He gave all of us a few counts here and there to add to our year-end show number. It was nice to feel comfortable enough to take that risk."
"Ciaran's coaching style is light and breezy. His responses are transparent and his suggestions forthright--an approach that seems to deliver a fruitful impact on in-class learning."
"Ciarán, your students work damn hard!"
The Stratford Festival, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the University of Waterloo, GreenLight Arts, NTS's Ontario Drama Festival (formerly Sears Festival), Button Factory Arts Centre, Star Performance Academy, Tir Na Nog School of Irish Dance, Family and Children Services of the Region of Waterloo.
I've been teaching for half of my life and always enjoy it! I've taught dance and drama to students literally ranging from 4 to 64 years of age at the competitive, professional, university, and recreational levels.
You can contact me here.
"Ciaran is a perceptive and inclusive instructor with a unique ability to inspirit a fun, open, inspiring, and safe environment. I greatly value the time I spent learning from Ciaran and often find myself reflecting back to our sessions. I highly recommend him."
"Ciarán is a wonderful light in the classroom. He taught me adult Irish, and he was always encouraging me to jump higher. He gave all of us a few counts here and there to add to our year-end show number. It was nice to feel comfortable enough to take that risk."
"Ciaran's coaching style is light and breezy. His responses are transparent and his suggestions forthright--an approach that seems to deliver a fruitful impact on in-class learning."
"Ciarán, your students work damn hard!"
I have high expectations of my students but maintain that you should be finding joy in your craft. An artist myself, I understand the impassioned teeter of confidence that emerging creatives so often have to negotiate in their own work. For me, exploration is at the heart of learning. The studio is a place to take risks and be open to new discoveries, with a goal to developing your best possible craft and expression, it is my job to facilitate that.
In dance I have taught courses and workshops in Irish (all levels), Lindy Hop (beginner, choreography, technique), Charleston, and vernacular movement.
In drama I have taught courses and workshops in auditioning, text analysis (classical and contemporary), voice, movement, clown, mime, and scene study.
Dramaturgically, I've worked with a number of writers (emerging and award-winning) on the development of their work, helping them to achieve the best possible incarnation of their creative goals within the narrative arguments that they set out to make.
Academically, I am driven by the politics of storytelling. How do aesthetic choices reflect and contribute to a political landscape? How does a narrative argument suggest those aesthetic choices? During my MFA my academic work revolved around the meaning and politics of modern translation and around the social theories that incarnate themselves into narrative structures.
I am currently in the process of developing curricula for devising new drama, performing puppetry, and a number of dramatic literature courses, among other things.
In dance I have taught courses and workshops in Irish (all levels), Lindy Hop (beginner, choreography, technique), Charleston, and vernacular movement.
In drama I have taught courses and workshops in auditioning, text analysis (classical and contemporary), voice, movement, clown, mime, and scene study.
Dramaturgically, I've worked with a number of writers (emerging and award-winning) on the development of their work, helping them to achieve the best possible incarnation of their creative goals within the narrative arguments that they set out to make.
Academically, I am driven by the politics of storytelling. How do aesthetic choices reflect and contribute to a political landscape? How does a narrative argument suggest those aesthetic choices? During my MFA my academic work revolved around the meaning and politics of modern translation and around the social theories that incarnate themselves into narrative structures.
I am currently in the process of developing curricula for devising new drama, performing puppetry, and a number of dramatic literature courses, among other things.