Linda Schirmer is a choreographer, dance artist and facilitator with a practice that is deeply embedded in the land surrounding her. She especially enjoys site-specific work rooted in people’s connection to land, folklore and the environment.

Linda Schirmer has engaged with the unique site of Interface artists residency in the Inagh valley, Connnemara on a year-round basis over the last number of years. She has observed changes in the environment with the changing seasons and created a filmic and embodied record of her movements and responses to it. As a live performance piece, her work acts as a barometer, or a mirror, to the ecology of place.

She was educated at the Leipzig State Ballet School and has a strong Dance Theatre background, holding an MA in theatre. Performances include those at the Nun's Island Theatre, IMMA, the Druid Theatre, Dublin Dance Festival, Clifden Arts Festival and Leipzig Opera House among others. For several years, she worked at the Dance Archive, Leipzig, focusing on Rudolf von Laban’s legacy. She is a recipient of the North-West Dance Residency, Baboró Mentoring Program and the Dance Commission Award from Interface Inagh. Her work has been funded and supported by the Arts Council Ireland, Galway Dance Project, Interface Inagh, Clifden Arts Festival, Culture Night among others.