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Author: Eamon Maher ,
Victoria O'Brien
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
Edition: New edition
Volume: 8
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.310kg
ISBN: 9783039118731
ISBN 10: 3039118730
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 16 June 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
(T)his book is an important contribution to dance scholarship. [...] It not only documents a lost period but also opens up other areas of scholarship and even the possibility of restaging forgotten works. Supplementing O'Brien's painstaking research are the memories of key dancers, such as Ester O Brolchain, who provide the valuable narrative behind posters and programmes. (Michael Seaver, The Irish Times) (T)his is an important book, and O'Brien has laid the groundwork for other researchers to further explore the artists and characters of this lost history of Irish performance. (Sara Keating, The Sunday Business Post)
(...) this book is an important contribution to dance scholarship. [...] It not only documents a lost period but also opens up other areas of scholarship and even the possibility of restaging forgotten works. Supplementing O'Brien's painstaking research are the memories of key dancers, such as Ester O Brolchain, who provide the valuable narrative behind posters and programmes. (Michael Seaver, The Irish Times) (...) this is an important book, and O'Brien has laid the groundwork for other researchers to further explore the artists and characters of this lost history of Irish performance. (Sara Keating, The Sunday Business Post)
(...) this book is an important contribution to dance scholarship. [...] It not only documents a lost period but also opens up other areas of scholarship and even the possibility of restaging forgotten works. Supplementing O'Brien's painstaking research are the memories of key dancers, such as Ester O Brolchain, who provide the valuable narrative behind posters and programmes. (Michael Seaver, The Irish Times) (...) this is an important book, and O'Brien has laid the groundwork for other researchers to further explore the artists and characters of this lost history of Irish performance. (Sara Keating, The Sunday Business Post)
«(...) this book is an important contribution to dance scholarship. [...] It not only documents a lost period but also opens up other areas of scholarship and even the possibility of restaging forgotten works. Supplementing O’Brien’s painstaking research are the memories of key dancers, such as Ester Ó Brolcháin, who provide the valuable narrative behind posters and programmes.» (Michael Seaver, The Irish Times) «(...) this is an important book, and O’Brien has laid the groundwork for other researchers to further explore the artists and characters of this lost history of Irish performance.» (Sara Keating, The Sunday Business Post)
Author Information
Victoria O’Brien trained at the Irish National College of Dance and is a graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and the Laban Centre. Her PhD research focused on the history of early twentieth-century Irish ballet and was completed at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, where she continues to lecture and holds the position of Development Officer at the National Dance Archive of Ireland.
