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Dance Theatre in Ireland A. McGrath

Dance Theatre in Ireland By A. McGrath

Dance Theatre in Ireland by A. McGrath

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Summary

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCeim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.

Dance Theatre in Ireland Summary

Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves by A. McGrath

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCeim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.

About A. McGrath

AOIFE McGRATH is Lecturer in the Drama Department at Queen's University Belfast, Irelandand recently completed her doctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Trinity College Dublin gold medallist and the winner of the Irish Society of Theatre Research's inaugural New Scholar's Prize (2011). She is a dancer and choreographer and has worked as the dance adviser for the Irish Arts Council.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Danced Precedents from Yeats to Davis Genre Debates: the Dance and the Bathwater Choreographing Narratives: Buried Bodies and Constitutive Stories in The Bull and Ballads Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Giselle and The Rite of Spring Choreographing Dissensus: Dodgems and Roundabouts Concluding Thoughts and Future Moves Select Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9781137035479
9781137035479
1137035471
Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves by A. McGrath
A. McGrath
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-12-03
227
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