MAGGIE GALLAGHER
Maggie started Irish dancing at the age of four and she travelled the world for many years competing in championships. She toured Europe as part of Marion Turley's world renowned troupe of dancers, dancing alongside Colin
Dunne, who went on to be the male lead in River Dance, and Jean Butler, the female lead in the show.
Maggie has been involved in many forms of dance throughout her spectacular career including tap, ballet and modern.
She began her love affair with Line Dancing over seven years ago in Coventry and true to form Maggie has been very successful in this field and is one of the top line dancing instructors in England.
Maggie has appeared on the video 'Lionel Dancing' with Lionel Blair along with other dance instructors and can be seen instructing dances that she has written including
one of her earlier hits "Magatina Cha Cha" which was choreographed by Maggie and Tina
Neale and danced to music by the Dean Brothers.
Maggie has seen a large number of her own choreographed line dances hit the "Line Dance Charts", with dances "Just a Memory", "Hot
Love" and Na Mara" all huge smash hits, still filling the floor at most socials in the UK and abroad.
Her mammoth, award winning 2001 dance "Mony Mony" was the first ever line dance to
enter the charts at No 1.
Maggie travels the world extensively hosting workshops and she was honoured to teach a couple of years ago in Texas at the World Line Dancing Championships and at the Tarheel Festival in USA in September of
the year before last.
Through the organisation of Scott Blevins and Carol Waite, Maggie also completed an Irish Dance Display at the Country and Western Chicagoland event.
Subsequent trips across Europe, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia have confirmed
Maggie's firm foothold in Linedance across the Globe.
Maggie was honoured with being voted by Linedancer Magazine readers "Female Linedance Personality of the Year" 1999,
2000 and 2001 and was totally thrilled to also collect "Crytstal
Boots" for "Beginner Dance Of The Year " (Just A Memory),
"Choreographer Of The Year", "Overall Dance Of The Year" (Mony
Mony), and also "Instructor Of The Year" in 2002. An amazing 5 Crystal
Boots!
The 2003 Awards, once again, saw Maggie win "Personality" plus
"Choreographer" and "Female Instructor" of the year and
repeated that success at the 2004 awards with another three "Crystal
Boots" for "Personality" "Choreographer" and
"Instructor".