Dance Theatre in Ireland [electronic resource] : Revolutionary Moves /
McGrath, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Danced Precedents from Yeats to Davis""; ""3 Genre Debates: the Dance and the Bathwater""; ""4 Choreographing Narratives: Buried Bodies and Constitutive Stories in The Bull and Ballads""; ""5 Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Giselle and The Rite of Spring""; ""6 Choreographing Dissensus: Dodgems and Roundabouts""; ""7 Concluding Thoughts and Future Moves""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and 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 Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.
Dance.
Theater.
Performing arts.
Dance.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Performing Arts.