Dance Matters in Ireland Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice [Hardcover]

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 Irelands 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 dancers voice, interdisciplinarity, and pedagogical paradigms.

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 Tri?r Ban: Woman, Disorientation, Displacement.- Rois?n OGorman; 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.- J?rgen 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).-&lS'