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Dance Theatre in Ireland

Revolutionary Moves

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  • © 2013

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  1. Aoife McGrath
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 1-35

  3. Danced Precedents from Yeats to Davis

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 37-71

  4. Genre Debates: the Dance and the Bathwater

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 73-98

  5. Choreographing Narratives: Buried Bodies and Constitutive Stories in The Bull and Ballads

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 99-122

  6. Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Giselle and The Rite of Spring

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 123-145

  7. Choreographing Dissensus: Dodgems and Roundabouts

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 147-162

  8. Concluding Thoughts and Future Moves

    • Aoife McGrath
    Pages 163-169

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-227
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About this book

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.

About the author

AOIFE 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.

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