Michelle Esch

Teaches at Irish Arts Center

Michelle Esch graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in dance from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of The Arts and studied Jazz/Musical Theater at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival. She is a company member with Darrah Carr Dance Company who is known for creating a unique blend of traditional Irish step and contemporary modern dance. Michelle has also taught and choreographed for the Discover Opera graduate program at Manhattan School of Music, The Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, Arts Horizons, The Laurie Berkner Band Greatest Hits Tour and several music videos.
Michelle has worked with Syncopated City Dance Company/Swing FX, Flexicurve, Meagan Woods & Company, and EDP Dance Project.  Additional dance credits include A Jazz Happening with Chet Walker, Flightless Birds at The Joyce Soho, Cirque du Soleil’s Poetic Social Mission, Jazz at Lincoln Center Spring Gala, Monday Night Entertainment at The Rainbow Room, Microsoft’s Launch Party for X-Box Kinect, Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, Frankie 100 Celebration at the Edison Ballroom, and Dance Legends at the Hammerstein Ballroom.