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Maria D’Arcy

Maria D’Arcy dancing at Patricia Laplante-Collins’ weekly soirée on rue de Rivoli in Paris.

In Paris, Maria D’Arcy first got the opportunity to put on numerous dance shows thanks to Patricia Laplante-Collins’ weekly soirée on rue de Rivoli and other venues. —photo by David Henry

trained in Oriental Dance in Dublin, Paris, Tunisia and Morocco, specializing in workshops of Belly dance, Balinese, and Gypsy styles. In Ireland she performed frequently at arts events, cultural festivals and nightclubs. She appeared on Irish TV four times and was interviewed on both TV and radio for the curious mixing of Arabian dance to Celtic music.

Voilà! The Dance videos! click links below:

  1. The mystery of love, a music video for Julie Rose Wilde
  2. The Naughty Dames of Paris
  3. Dancing «Padam Padam» in Montmartre
  4. Folks Back Home, by the Hut Dwellers
  5. Golden Hair at the Cent-Quatre in Paris
  6. Burlesque Blooms at the Cantada II
  7. Salomé, recital and dance at le Chat Noir
  8. Dancing the Pink Panther at l’Atelier Z
  9. Big Spender at le Cantada II
  10. Balinese dancing at the Casino de Paris
  11. Arabian Dancing at Atelier Z
  12. The Dance of Seven Veils
  13. The Gerry Ryan TV Show in Dublin
  14. A Saint Paddy’s day message, 2021

She was invited to combine her dancing and acting talents for a One Woman Show entitled “Exotic Tales and Dances from Celtic Literature” staged at The Irish College now known as Le Centre Culturel Irlandais. Soon after she was selected to be a go-go dancer at L’espace Pierre Cardin in a French show named “Sex, Drogges et Rock ’n’ Roll”.

What joy it was to be included in a line-up of Balinese dancers, to dress up in full Indonesian regalia, to perform in suburban community centres, in Parc de la Villette, in the courtyard by Sacré-Cœur. The troupe appeared at the prestigious Théâtre Mogador and famous Casino de Paris. Atelier Z, a multi-disciplined arts space welcomed her to share an Egyptian dance on «La Journée de La Femme» at a later date, to dress as a pink panther for the exhibition «Pas si Bête.»

Maria D’Arcy dancing at Patricia Laplante-Collins’ weekly soirée on rue de Rivoli in Paris.

Maria D’Arcy in a group of four go-go dancers at L’espace Pierre Cardin in a French show named “Sex, Drogges et Rock ’n’ Roll”. —photo by Jean Richard

In July 2013 Maria was commissioned with David Henry to make a music video promoting “The mystery of love”, part of a recording project for the chanteuse Julie Rose Wilde, a singer from Savannah Georgia. In 2014 a new chapter started, the world of burlesque. After a sequence of intensive workshops she was invited to join the Burlesque Moulin Troupe for cabarets in Le Labo, Le Balajo, Théâtre de la Contrescarpe, etc, during the years 2015–2018.

Maria D’Arcy in a belly dance outfit.

Through their prestige she had the good fortune to meet Daisy Deparys who invited her to dance at her monthly Wonder Kabarret at the Cantada II rock bar. Next lucky encounter was with Isabelle Sojfer who opened the way to shows in the cellar-bar at La Santa Maria restaurant. Not only did she rise to the challenge to choreograph a cowboy-girl dance to accompany the singer/songwriter Michel Riffat, she also produced a full one-hour show with him. Likewise Maria and Isabelle found their energy in sync enough to conjure up another one-hour show entitled—Naughty Dames of Paris.

Maria D’Arcy downstairs at the Cantada II bar

Maria D’Arcy before the show at the Mogador theatre. —photo by Desita

At your service

Event entertainment: dance choreographies in lavish costumes to tickle and tease your guests:
The Pink Panther
Big Spender
Belly Dance
Padam Padam (as sung by Édith Piaf, in French)
Esmerelda’s gypsy dance
Jingle Bell Rock
Burlesque ‘The Stripper’.
Performance fee: €60 one performance/ €100 for two shows in Paris, Contact:

Another unusual participation was parading to the music of Santana in a street fashion show by Swedish designer Yvonne B. in the Marais called «Chien Chic» a doggie-show with extravagant collars and costumes.

During the entente-cordiale commemoration she appeared in One World Productions as a dancing fairy in the run of Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at La Comédie Française and Unesco. It was a surprise when Anna Filimonova, who hosted art nights in her Batignolles salon, proposed her talents for the «Semaine des Cultures Étrangères à Paris» at the Armenian Centre and nearby town hall where she was part of a cast of foreign talent.

Maria continues to dance, occasionally combining it with storytelling as she has done at Spokenword with Salomé and Paris Lit Up, accompanied by Gene Ruda in 2020.

In 2017 she worked with David Henry to produce a music video for her brother Patrick amid the most picturesque settings of romantic Paris to accompany the song by the Hut Dwellers, “Folks Back Home”.

With Patricia Killeen and la Baronne de Paname she danced as a blonde for a song written by James Joyce named Golden Hair. More recently she performed Chez Clint, choreographing a dance to «Padam Padam» at the café Ozmos she cheered everyone up with a Christmas number, “Jingle Bell Rock” and at the shady nightclub, Pandora, at the back of Pigalle, she treated onlookers to a Burlesque number with red boa.

Contact: Maria D’Arcy 75017 Paris France
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