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Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves 2013th Edition
Author(s): A. McGrath (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 237 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137035471
- ISBN-13: 9781137035479
Book Description
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.
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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.
