Muirne Bloomer
Muirne Bloomer is a dance professional with over 30 years’ experience in dance, theatre, children’s dance theatre, spectacle, and community arts. Choreographic work includes The Ballet Ruse, nominated for a Total Theatre Award Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 (with Emma O’Kane), As You Are (CoisCéim), Dancing at Lughnasa (The Gate, An Grianan and the Bucharest National Theatre and Second Age), Dandy Dolls (Peacock), The Tempest, Drama at Inish, Cavalcaders and A Dolls House (Abbey Theatre), The Hand, Mixing it on the Mountain and The Star Child (Calypso), Wallflowering, Hue and Cry, Maisy Dalys Rainbow and Moment (Tall Tales), Can you catch a Mermaid (Pavilion), The Death of Harry Leon (Ouroboros), The Merchant of Venice (Second Age), Rock Rivals (UTV Television), Leon and the Place Between, Egg, A Spell of Cold Weather and The Incredible Book Eating Boy (Cahoots), Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Lulu House (Siren Productions) and Little Women (The Gate). Muirne also choreographed the Special Olympics Opening Ceremony in Belfast in 2005. Together with David Bolger she choreographed A Dash of Colour (Special Olympics Croke Park 2004), Intimate Details and Golf Swing (Opening Ceremony Ryder Cup 2006) and the UEFA League Final (Aviva Stadium 2011). She has directed a pageant for St Patricks Festival annually since 2004, and is director of the City Fusion and Brighter Futures project for St Patricks Festival. Muirne choreographed The Incredible Book Eating Boy at the MAC, Belfast. For Sulu Management, Muirne has choreographed many pre match arena events including the Heineken Cup Semi-Final. Muirne has been a long-time associate with CoisCéim Dance Theatre and has worked with the company as assistant choreographer and performer since its inception in 1995.
She teaches contemporary and ballet at professional, second and third level at the Lir Academy and Bow Street Screen Actors Academy. Her choreography for Irish National Opera productions includes Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like The Other, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and, most recently, Bizet’s Carmen. Other choreographic work includes Rossini’s The Marriage of Figaro (Wide Open Opera), Hamlet (St Anne’s Warehouse NYC), Look Back in Anger, The Great Gatsby, Private Lives, Little Women, Arcadia and Dancing at Lughnasa (Gate Theatre); Donegal, You Never Can Tell, She Stoops to Conquer, A Doll’s House, Cavalcaders, Drama at Inis and The Tempest (Abbey Theatre). Muirne is currently artistic coordinator of Creative Places Darndale.