IRISH STEP DANCING CLASSES IN GREATER BOSTON (MASSACHUSETTS)

Some step dancing classes in the greater Boston area are listed below. For other areas, the website Ann's Place has a long list of Irish dance teachers and schools sorted by state and by country; the list may be outdated but a few calls or emails should produce some results, at least a referral. Also try the website An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha, The Irish Dancing Commission, to find a certified teacher anywhere in the world. A list of Irish dance schools by name or by state.

• Rince Cois headed by Sheila Bremer holds classes in Salem (MA) and Lynnfield and also in North Andover with Miss Kim, as well as Manchester and Groton, Massachusetts. Sheila Bremer is the founder and director of Rince Cois Fharraige and a T.C.R.G. (registered teacher of Irish Dance with An Coimisiun, Dublin, Ireland). Rince Cois Fharraige (“Dance By The Sea”) is an Irish Dance Academy with the main studio located at 87 Canal Street in Salem, MA. For information regarding the school and/or classes.
  Telephone: (978)740-3049
  Contact by Email:
  Sheila Bremer (sheilabremer@hotmail.com)
  Miss Kim (askmisskim@hotmail.com)
  Miss Eileen (askmisseileen@hotmail.com)
  Stacey (jiginsalem@hotmail.com)
• O'Shea-Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance
  Find classes 6 days a week in 15 different communities in Massachusetts.
  Monday: Lowell, Burlington, and Lawrence
  Tuesday: Malden, North Attleboro, Billerica
  Wednesday: Quincy
  Thursday: Winchester, Watertown
  Friday: Norwood, Belmont
  Saturday: Allston, Ashton, Beverly, Harvard
  See their website for addresses and times. Call Lisa (781) 662-2191 or Rita (781) 665-3110 in Melrose or email osheachaplin (at) hotmail.com
• Duffin-Murphy School of Irish Dance, Salisbury, MA or Newburyport, Christine Duffin-Murphy 978-465-6863
• Goulding School of Irish Dance. in Medford, Massachusetts, and Cranston, Rhode Island, Deidre Goulding, instructor; write her at
  71 Terrace Road,Medford Massachusetts 02155
• Irish Step Dancing and Ceili Dancing
  Kieran Jordan, teacher, in Allston and Cambridge; Kieran, both a performer and instructor, specializes in an old style of Irish dance known as Sean-nós, which is more of a free-style, swinging arms, feet low to the ground style of dance.
• Harney Academy of Irish Dance, Sally Harney, instructor, 945 Main St (Route 1A), Walpole, MA 02081 508-660-8369, harneyacademy@comcast.net
  
• Forbes School of Irish Step Dancing in Quincy at 42 Newcomb Street, Quincy, MA 02169 Phone: (617) 770-4129 E-mail: forbesschool@comcast.net
• Hansen-Keohane School of Irish Dancing (Irish Step Dance and Ceili Dance); Director: Alanna Maida
  West Roxbury, MA; Phone: 781-461-9770
• Drake School of Irish Dance, Westfield, MA (413) 532-5161 (no further info ~ possibly outdated)
• Haley School in West Roxbury, 617-816-3746,
  Erin Blake, instructor, erinmary78 (at) hotmail.com

• Maureen Haley School of Irish Step Dance serving the greater Boston, Cape Cod and Worcester, MA area 781-471-2377
• Hansen-Keohane School; (website notfunctional) Classes are held at the Theodore Parker Church, 70 Corey Street, on the corner of Centre St. in West Roxbury, MA. Alanna Maida can be reached at PO Box 1268, Dedham, MA 02027 Tel: 781.461.9770 alanna@hansenkeohane.com
  
• Flying Irish Academy, PO Box 351, Ashby, MA 01431 (978) 386-2325; dance (at) ifishstepdancing.com, serving North Central Massachusetts and New Hampshire's Monadnock Region
• Cunniffe Academy Malden, Exeter, Norwell, South Weymouth, Londonderry (NH), and Manchester (NH) classes Contact John at 617.426.0203 Email: jcunniffe (at) aol.com
• Forbes School of Irish Step Dancing in Quincy at 42 Newcomb Street, Quincy, MA 02169 Phone: (617) 770-4129 E-mail: forbesschool@comcast.net