Meet

Tara Brandel

Tara Brandel is a contemporary dancer and choreographer originally from West Cork. She trained at the Laban Centre in London and has been choreographing extensively since 1990. She created Square One for D-CAF 2017 in Cairo, Egypt; and her dance film CAR was Director’s Choice at the CDIFF in Toronto 2017. Tara toured Cappaghglass, a one-woman show about migration to Cork Midsummer Festival, D-CAF Cairo Egypt, Echo Echo Derry, San Francisco FRESH Festival, and Ponderosa, Germany.

Tara holds a Masters in Interdisciplinary Performance from UCDavis, where she was awarded the Della Davidson Award 2019, the Mondavi Fellowship, and the Women’s Research Center Fellowship for her show Circus, which toured to San Francisco International Arts Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and FRESH San Francisco 2020.

Tara has been Artistic Director of Croí Glan since 2006. Croí Glan produces innovative, engaging, high calibre productions highlighting the value of diverse bodies in creating performance. Croi Glan is currently Arts Council Company in Residence 2023 at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, and most recently toured In Place, choreographed by Tara Brandel, with music composed by Ray Harman, which premiered at IMMA Sept 2021. And TILT which toured to Cork Midsummer, Tipperary Dance, and Dancer from the Dance Festivals Summer 2021.

Brandel crafts some sublime moments defined by power, elegance, and beauty” – The Arts Review.

Appearances at  Tipperary Dance

Tara Brandel