Dance Matters in Ireland : Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 166998008
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-66739-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- McGrath co-edited this collection with Dr Emma Meehan (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry). She also contributed a co-authored introductory chapter (16pp) and a sole-authored chapter (14pp). The collection was developed out of a symposium, Dance Matters, convened by McGrath and Meehan at Dance House, Dublin, in 2016, and supported by awards from the Trinity College Dublin Visual and Performing Arts Fund and Dance Ireland/Irish Arts Council. The book offers the first peer-reviewed, critical collection about contemporary dance performance and practice on the island of Ireland, and gathers contributions from seminal figures in dance practice, teaching and scholarship, including international contributors from Germany, Argentina, Ireland and the UK. Professor Ann R. David (Dance, Roehampton) writes that ‘[i]ts fresh approach to contemporary practice in Ireland provides a critical appraisal of the relationship between social, cultural and historical ideas of body and society [...] bring[ing] new evidence and debates to the contemporary performance arena, as well as revealing material that often lies hidden’ (David, 2018). Dr Eric Weitz (Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, former President of ISTR), writes that, ‘Dance Matters in Ireland, makes it clear how much it matters – and how much dance scholarship matters – in the broader scheme of theatre and performance studies […] It weaves a genuine dialogue amongst writing about practice and writing about practicing, from ground zero in the studio outward to national and international contexts’ (Weitz, 2018). McGrath’s co-authored introduction provides an extensive mapping of the economic, historical, and socio-cultural contexts underpinning the individual chapters, positioning the collection within international dance scholarship and Irish studies. Her sole-authored chapter provides the first critical analysis of the pioneering work of feminist Irish choreographers Áine Stapleton and Emma Fitzgerald.
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- Non-English
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