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OverviewDance 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. McGrathPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2013 Weight: 0.310kg ISBN: 9781349442270ISBN 10: 1349442275 Pages: 227 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAOIFE 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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