Dr. Catherine Foley is Emeritus Associate Professor of Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, at the University of Limerick. There, she actively pioneered for the inclusion of ethnochoreology and Irish dance performance within the university system. Dr Foley was founding director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes; she has also supervised numerous doctoral students. Dr Foley is Founding Director of The National Dance Archive of Ireland as well as Founding Chair Emerita of Dance Research Forum Ireland. In addition, she is a former elected Chair of the Study Group for Ethnochoreology of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD). Dr Foley has also served as an elected member of the Executive Board of ICTMD. Dr Foley has published extensively. Her publications include two monographs, Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry (2012) and Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (2013). These are based on Dr Foley’s longitudinal ethnographic field research into traditional step dancing in North Kerry. She has also published in international scholarly journals including: Dance Research Journal, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Dance Research, Research in Dance Education, and New Hibernia Review. Dr Foley is a dancer and a musician. Her video recordings including her commissioned choreography, The Sionna Set Dance (2007) and her solo DVD, Stór Damhsa: Irish Traditional Solo Set Dances and Step Dances (2015). Dr Foley has lectured and provided Irish dance workshops at different universities, both in Europe and the USA. See: Catherine E. Foley, Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History, Routledge, 2016.