A. McGrath

Dance Theatre in Ireland

Revolutionary Moves

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Produktbeschreibung

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 CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-03547-9
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781137035479
• ISBN-10: 1137035471
• Artikelnr.: 36198073

Autorenporträt

AOIFE McGRATH 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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