Irish Moves by Deirdre Mulrooney

Irish Moves by Deirdre Mulrooney

Irish Moves is a historical book with a difference. From Ninette de Valois to Jean Butler and Tom Hickey, it showcases - and in some cases salvages - the stories of Ireland's unsung movers: actors, dancers, choreographers, playwrights, directors, and the few academics who dare to go where no words have gone before. Focussing on people who value what's in between the words as much as the words themselves, it features stories of the creative journeys taken by artists who have devoted their lives to physical expression, despite the fact that their medium was ignored, or even erased from memory. An in-depth introductory essay points up how the zeitgeist finds expression in this new history of dance and theatre in Ireland through the eyes of practitioners, historians, and sociologists, and the as yet unpublished lost chapter of Modern Dance in Ireland in the 1940's. The Abbey School of Ballet is also salvaged from obscurity with a memoir and unpublished images from the 1920's, '30's and '40's. Irish Moves not only provides a map of dance and physical theatre in Ireland, but is also a meditation on our complicated attitude to the body as a nation. It offers surprising and sometim

Deirdre Mulrooney is a journalist, writer, and lecturer in theatre. She reviews dance for Rattlebag on RTE Radio One, does reports on the Arts for Lyric FM's Artszone, and her writing has featured on Radio One's Sunday Miscellany. She has been published internationally in Dance Magazine and Dance Europe, and has contributed to Magill Magazine, The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Times "Culture" section, Abroad, and IT Magazines, among others. Deirdre holds an MA and a PhD in Modern Drama Studies from UCD

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ISBN 13	9781904148920
ISBN 10	1904148921
Title	Irish Moves
Author	Deirdre Mulrooney
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Liffey Press
Year published	2006-04-01
Number of pages	320
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