Dance Matters in Ireland Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McGrath, Aoife (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meehan, Emma (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Dance.; Performing arts.; Performing Arts.

This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the excitingly diverse range of choreographers and...

Table of Contents:

• Aoife McGrath and Emma Meehan; Introduction
• Emma Meehan; Revisiting Lunar Parables: Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Intangible Archive
• Finola Cronin; On Peregrine Collaborations - Cindy Cummings' Choreography of Triúr Ban: Woman, Disorientation, Displacement
• Roisín O'Gorman; Bodied Stories and Storied Bodies in Contemporary Irish performance
• Aoife McGrath; Discomforting/Disarming Touch: experiencing affective contradiction in improvisatory dance performance
• Paula Guzzanti; The Language of Affect in Choreographic Practice: Embodied at the GPO
• Rachel Sweeney; Dance Ecology as a Live Research Practice
• Jenny Roche; Dancing, Identity and Place: Balancing Subjectivity and Technique in Contemporary Dance Training
• Jürgen Simpson and Mary Wycherley; (Per)forming the Triptych / Two Voices from a Work: The Dance of Making
• Mary Nunan; A Gallery of Hanging Thoughts: Reflections on a Choreographic Practice (12 Frames)
• Jools Gilson; The Kenning.