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 Cois Céim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
AOIFE Mc GRATH is Lecturer in the Drama Department at Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland and 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.
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