• Dance Director, Associate choreographer, LORD OF THE DANCE, AND FEET OF FLAMES.
• Irish Dance teacher, Adjudicator, Examiner and member of An Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha.
• External Examiner with The University of Limerick, Ireland, for M.A. degree in Dance Performance.
• Fitness Instructor and Nutritionist, Diploma with City Gym, Dublin, Ireland.

Marie Duffy is probably the most successful teacher/choreographer of Irish Dance in modern times. She has a record of exceptional versatility and outstanding achievement in all areas of choreography.

As Associate Choreographer and Dance Director on "Lord of the Dance" and "Feet of Flames", Marie's work with Michael Flatley changed the face of Irish Dance and has taken it to new levels of popularity across the world.

1996 Lord Of The Dance Show 1 World Tour, Ireland England, U.S.A. Canada, Australia
1996 A Royal Gala - The Princes Trust
1997 Lord Of The Dance Show 2: currently touring, U.S.A. Canada, South America and Australia..
1997 The Oscars, Academy Awards show, Los Angeles
1998 Lord Of The Dance Show3: Las Vegas.
1998 Feet of Flames, Dance Director/Associate Choreographer, Route of Kings, Hyde Park, London.
1999 Lord of The Dance Show 4: Disneyworld Orlando Florida
2000 Feet Of Flames, Europe, playing to a capacity audience of 100,000
2001 Feet Of Flames, U.S.A. most memorable night Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles
2002 Currently working with Show 1 Europe, Rehearsing Show 2 for Australia And preparing Show 3
Las Vegas for Canada

Marie began her career in dance at the age 6, as a pupil at the world famous Inis Ealga Academy in Dublin. She went on to become co-director of the Academy, with the late Maitiu O'Maoileidigh. During Marie¹s directorship, students of the Academy won more than 400 prizes in each and every category of All Ireland and World Championships.

Under Marie's tuition, Inis Ealga won the Gold Medal for Ireland at the Folk
Dance Olympics in Dijon, France, in a competition that attracted entrants
from the five continents of the World.

Marie also conducts master classes/workshops throughout the U.S.A. Canada, Australia and Great Britain. Under Marie's training, dancers and classes have soared to unrivalled success, achieving National and World
Championships.

Marie was also in the forefront of such T.V. programmes as Telefis Eireann's 'Beirt Eile' and 'Club Ceili'. Beirt Eile was the first-ever weekly Irish Dance show and ran for a period of 2 years. Club Ceili, where she performed solo, in choreography and in ceili ran for a further 2 years. Marie was the first to demonstrate and teach the steps and movements to Maitiu O'Maoileidigh's voiceover Irish dance instruction on Club Ceili. Marie performed and choreographed in many other Telefis Eireann shows,
including Seamas Ennis sa Cathair and many times on The Late Late Show. She has also appeared on T.V. shows in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, The Czech Republic and the U.S.A.

Marie has taught traditional Irish dancing, contemporary dancing,
callisthenics and physical training. She choreographed, produced and
directed musical productions in National Schools in Dublin for many years.

Among many other shows and cabarets around Dublin and Ireland, Marie
performed in the famous Jury's Cabaret and later choreographed the Inis
Ealga dancers in the Cabaret.

Marie also contributes to the Celtic Cafe.

Quotes from Michael Flatley on CNN Larry King Live
"I have a wonderful woman, that works beside me, who is my right arm named Marie Duffy from Ireland, the greatest dance person I have ever met, she knows more about Irish Dancing than anyone in the world. I just adore her"

"Luckily enough, I have as I said, the finest dance master in the world, Marie Duffy, my right hand person, and you couldn't ask for a better person, she is like a sister to me. She helps me enormously"