Danielle began life in ballet and modern dance, she spent her youth Irish step-dancing and fiddling, in her late adolescence she was introduced to sean-nós and regional styles of step dance from Ireland and North America, her twenties were spent researching and writing about historical and cultural paradigms of dance traditions in Ireland and its relationship to European and North American dance forms, and so far her 30s have led her to reconnect and reclaim the Métis and Quebecois traditions of her grandparents.

Danielle's breadth and depth of experience and cultural connections is unique in the traditional music world. She is an Irish dancer with extensive experience in the competitive, old-style, and sean-nós dance worlds with direct connections to the old dancing master lineages of Cork and Kerry, and with experience in the dance traditions of the north of Ireland, all places she has lived and spent significant time. Danielle is one of few ethnochoreologists (dance anthropologists) to have completed a two-year master's degree focused solely on research and thesis, her official area of study included County Cork and ties to early European dance trends, other regions in Ireland, and traditions in North America. As a fiddler she grew up immersed in Irish music with notable teachers and mentors in the US, Ireland, and Canada. Danielle holds a Diploma in Traditional Irish Music from University College Cork where she studied with Connie O'Connell, Matt Cranitch, Bobby Gardiner, and Peggy McTeggart.