Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice

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