Julia o rourke worlds 2017 league

Julia O'Rourke is a competitive Irish stepdancer.

After being featured in the 2010 Sue Bourne documentary Jig as a competitor at the 2010 Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships), O'Rourke became known as a public face for the dance form globally.^[1] She won several further titles before her retirement from competition in 2017.

Dancing career

O'Rourke began taking Irish stepdance classes at the age of 5 after seeing a classmate at elementary school perform the style in a show and tell session. She began lessons at the Petri School of Irish Dancing (later the Doherty-Petri School) in Garden City Park, and continued at the same school until her retirement from competition.^[2] At her first feis, she won a first prize.^[3]

In 2010, O'Rourke was selected