Debi Irons, Dancer, Performer, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Art Moves Dance Project

Art Moves Dance Project * 13 Cottage St. * Norway, ME 04268

Debi Irons

Debi Irons is a professional dancer/choreographer with over 20 years experience in all aspects of the dance world. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Art Moves Dance Company which features improvisation and choreography in blues, modern and jazz, and was selected for the recent Acorn Productions' CASSANDRA Project and Portland Ballet's Portland Dances.

She has collaborated with a multitude of local, national and international dancers including Daielma Santos, Karen Montanaro, Josie Conte, and Nancy Salmon; she has performed the choreography of Sara Whale with Ram Island Dance; been a soloist for Esduardo Mariscal Dance Theatre; jazzed it up with Danny Buraczeski & Katiti King, gone modern with Doug Varone via the Bates Dance Festival, and has toured with inflatable vaudevillian Fred Garbo. Her favorite performance venue is with live music, most recently with Inanna, sisters in rhythm, the Vocal Solution, and jazz improvisation with Carole Stone, Sean McGowan, Andrea Antognoni, Jeff Densmore, Tom Zicarelli, and Mark Kleinhaut, among others.

Debi received an NEA grant from the Maine Arts Commission for Art Moves into the Schools Summer Dance Festival which featured student & professional shows & master classes; she received a Maine Community Foundation Grant for Art Moves into the Schools & Art Moves into the Schools Summer Dance Festival in Oxford Hills. Debi is the creator and proprietor of Art Moves Dance Studio, Artistic Director of the teen Art Moves Dance Group, and the teacher/choreographer/catalyst for variant dance to hundreds of students yearly, in public and private schools. Her focus is on letting students discover their individual voice using the developmentally appropriate technique.

She continues to study, collaborate and produce, challenging herself as an artist and human being.

Debi Irons is collaborating with choreographer/dj Niles Ford of Brooklyn, New York on Art Moves Dance Project and Urban Dance Collective's present working title, "LIFE AFTER CYNICISM" blending a hybrid of modern, jazz and afro-brazilian dance with live and recorded music to tell a human story that any audience can relate to."

Art Moves Dance Project * 13 Cottage St. * Norway, ME 04268

Tel: 207.743.5569