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Dance theatre in Ireland : revolutionary moves /

By: McGrath, Aoife.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137035479; 9781137035479:; 1137035471.Subject(s): Dance -- Ireland | Dance -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Dance -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 793.319415
Contents:
List of figures -- 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 -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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 the Celtic-Tiger-era works of the Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCeim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st century.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 793.319415 MCG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0089350
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

List of figures -- 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 -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

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 the Celtic-Tiger-era works of the Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCeim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st century.

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