Dance Limerick Hub CLG is a company limited by guarantee without a share capital. The company has charitable status and is governed by the Board of Directors which meets quarterly. Dance Limerick Hub CLG recognises the importance of maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance in the interest of all our stakeholders. The Board has adopted codes of best practice which go beyond the minimum legal requirements in order to ensure the highest level of transparency and accountability.
Dance Limerick Hub CLG is committed to best practice and good governance. The organisation complies with the standards as set out in the Governance Transparency Scale, adapted by the Arts Council and signed Governance Code principle statement. The organisation is compliant with the Charities Regulator’s Code of Governance. Previously, Dance Limerick Hub CLG was also compliant with The Governance Code (Type C) for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable Sector in Ireland.
Dance Limerick operates within strict financial procedures and controls and keeps detailed books and records of accounts. The Festival is fully transparent in all of its financial activities and reporting. We are fully committed to achieving and maintaining the standards contained within the Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising developed by the Irish Charities Tax Reform Group (ICTR).
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The new EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force from 25th May 2018. Dance Limerick is committed to safeguarding any information given to us. To support upcoming changes in European data law we have updated our privacy policy which gives you clear information on how we handle and protect your personal data. See below for Dance Limerick’s complete Privacy Statement.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr Michael Finneran (Chair)
Elected 2017
Michael Finneran is a theatre scholar, educator and artist. He has spoken and published internationally on the arts, creativity and education. Michael served as chair for the development of the new Leaving Cert. in Drama, Theatre and Film, as well as the establishment of Creative Schools. He is Associate Professor and Head of Drama & Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College.
Roxy Theobald
Elected 2022
Roxy is a dance instructor, choreographer/performer, cultural editor and visual artist, and researcher -practitioner. She teaches in the Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance and Master in Dance Performance programmes, and provides somatic practice courses for PhDs in Arts Practice at University of Limerick. Roxy holds a first class honours Master 2 in Aesthetic Sciences and Technology of Arts combining Dance and Theatre (FR). Through her doctoral research, she developed the concept of 'inner lines' - A creative ethnographic method through that illuminates an innovative approach to Francophone African genealogies, body memory trauma and interculturality through dance ethnography.
As a visual artist, her work ‘Undulating body’ was exhibited at The Dorothy’s Gallery in Paris (2015). Her dance film 'Inner/lines'... Empowering Embodied Ancestral Voices' was cited in Dance Magazine New York (2024). As a reviewer, she published for Africultures, Dance Light Magazine, Paris-Art.com and Pratiques Corporelles. As a dance scholar, Roxy has lectured at Musée de l’Homme, Cité de L’ Immigration, Centre National de la Danse, Colorado College and Duke University a.o. Roxy is a 2022 recipient of the Irish Research Government of Ireland award and she is a national advisory panel member for the Dance State Diploma (FR).
Liz Kelly
Elected 2024
Liz Kelly is Director of Poetry Ireland. She has extensive experience across the arts at national level, working for the Arts Council and at local level, as a creative producer, facilitator and manager of arts programmes and events for local authorities, festival communities and local projects. These include Culture Night, Bealtaine, local authority arts programmes for Tipperary, Wicklow, Clare and Mayo Arts Officers, Sing Ireland, Music Generation and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. Liz has been director of Ennis Book Club Festival and of dlr Mountains to Sea Book Festival. She was the producer of Small Towns Big Ideas, a Galway 2020 programme through which 72 projects across Galway city and county mobilised local communities and artists to celebrate their rich culture in both urban and rural settings.
Tiziana Margaria
Elected 2024
Professor Dr.-Ing. Tiziana Margaria holds the Chair of Software Systems at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick. She studied Ingegneria Elettronica at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin and earned her Ph.D. there in 1993. She held professorships at the universities of Göttingen and Potsdam in Germany. In 1997 she co-founded the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer and in 2004 she co-founded the ISoLA conference series that she runs till today. In 1997, she co-founded METAFrame Technologies GmbH, which she continues to manage as CEO. She is a Principal Investigator at the Lero and I-Form Science Foundation Ireland national Research Centres, and Co-Director of the National Centre of Research Training in AI. She is currently Vice President of the Irish Computer Society, the IFIP WG 10.5 on Electronic Design Automation and EASST, the European Association of Software Science and Technology.
Catherine McMahon
Elected 2025
Born & raised in Limerick, Catherine remembers seeing classical ballet in black & white on TV as a young teenager and being blown away by the plasticity, grace and beauty of expression by the dancers. She started training with Joan Denise Moriarty, founder of the Irish Ballet Company. On leaving school, she studied Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art in Cork, where the ballet school was across the street in Emmet Place. She was then accepted into London Contemporary Dance School and got a working scholarship as assistant to the Head of Choreography to help finance this. She set up Exiles Dance Company to showcase her choreography and work with fellow Irish dancers, toured Ireland and performed at Edinburgh Fringe. After 10 years freelancing as a dancer and singer, she spent five years in LA and worked at Conde Nast & the Getty Museum. On returning to London, she worked for L’Oreal Professional Products UK on the Communications & Events team and developed partnerships with Central Saint Martin’s MA & BA Fashion and the Fashion in Motion events at the V&A Museum.
Sharon McMeel
Elected 2025
Sharon McMeel is a highly regarded events and cultural manager with deep Limerick roots and a career that spans over two decades. Currently Events & Business Manager and Cultural Secretary with the Scottish Government in Ireland, she has previously managed large-scale cultural, diplomatic, and corporate events with the British Embassy Dublin and for a wide range of arts, community, and business organisations. Sharon is widely recognised for her ability to deliver impactful cultural initiatives and strategic partnerships, and she is proud to contribute her expertise to Dance Limerick as a board member.
Ronan Berg
Elected 2025
Ronan is a solicitor and principal at O’Connor & Bergin Solicitors, Dublin. He works across a range of practice areas and has a particular professional interest in art and cultural heritage law. He holds an LLM in Art, Business and Law from Queen Mary University of London and a BA in Painting and Art History from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. A practising painter and musician, Ronan also advises and represents clients in the creative industries, supporting them with their legal needs.
