Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice

✍ Scribed by Aoife McGrath,Emma Meehan (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 works that are transforming Ireland’s performance landscape. The first section provides a chronologically-ordered collection of critical essays to ground the reader in some of the most important issues currently at play in contemporary dance in Ireland. The second section then provides an interrogation of individual choreographers’ processes. The book traces new choreographic work and trends through a broad array of topics, including somatics in performance, screendance, cultural trauma, dance archives, affect studies, feminist perspectives, choreographic process, the dancer’s voice, interdisciplinarity, and pedagogical paradigms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Aoife McGrath, Emma Meehan)....Pages 1-16
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
Revisiting Lunar Parables: Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Intangible Archive (Emma Meehan)....Pages 19-37
On Peregrine Collaborations—Cindy Cummings’ Choreography of Triúr Ban: Woman, Disorientation, Displacement (Finola Cronin)....Pages 39-53
Bodied Stories and Storied Bodies in Contemporary Irish Performance (Róisín O’Gorman)....Pages 55-78
Discomforting/Disarming Touch: Experiencing Affective Contradiction in Improvisatory Dance Performance (Aoife McGrath)....Pages 79-91
The Language of Affect in Choreographic Practice: Conversations on the Making of Embodied at the GPO (Paula Guzzanti)....Pages 93-111
Front Matter ....Pages 113-113
Dance Ecology as a Live Research Practice (Rachel Sweeney)....Pages 115-124
Dancing, Identity and Place: Balancing Subjectivity and Technique in Contemporary Dance Training (Jenny Roche)....Pages 125-143
(Per)forming the Triptych / Two Voices from a Work: The Dance of Making (Mary Wycherley, Jürgen Simpson)....Pages 145-169
A Gallery of Hanging Thoughts: Reflections on a Choreographic Practice (12 Frames) (Mary Nunan)....Pages 171-189
The Kenning (Jools Gilson)....Pages 191-200
Back Matter ....Pages 201-209

✦ Subjects

Dance