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Dance in Ireland
In Dance in Ireland: Steps, Stages and Stories, Sharon Phelan provides an in-depth view of dance in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial eras. She presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and as a signifier of cultural change. Central themes are documented and analysed. They include cross-cultural influences, the dance master and pantomimic dance traditions, dance during the Gaelic Revival, dichotomies in dance, and the theatricalisation of Irish dance. The book is illustrate.
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Dance and modernism in Irish and German literature and culture : connections in motion
\"This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture since the 1920s\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Keeping Step
\"Irish dancers hold their upper bodies still while their feet move FAST!\" (Highlights for Children) Read more about Irish dancing.
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Riverdance Shifts Irish Dancing into High Gear
\"Why does a troupe of some 30 hard-shoe Irish dancers stomping up a storm evoke such a profound response here in the States? Colin Dunne, the male star who took over the lead from Michael Flatley in October 1995, says even the dancers are surprised... 'Before Riverdance, there were no professional outlets for Irish dancers, unless you toured with The Chieftains... But now, it's just gone crazy. Kids the world over want to take Irish dancing classes.'\" (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) Riverdance's popularity \"may be less about pockets of Irish-Americans than something buried in the common immigrant experience, a journey loosely traced by the dramatic form of the show itself.\"
Newspaper Article
Kids Dance Off to Ireland and Come Home with a Medal
\"On a sunny October afternoon in a basement dance studio on Capitol Hill, young dancers shuffle, kick and swing each other around. Still in their school clothes, they laugh and smile and swirl to a jaunty tune played by their dance teacher, Shannon Dunne. She taps her feet and sways while she plays a concertina, a small instrument similar to an accordion. The dancers, most of them fifth- and sixth-graders who live in the neighborhood, come to learn two kinds of traditional Irish dance.\" (Washington Post) Read more about these kids learning Irish dancer.
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Irish Dancers Go Toe in Challenge
\"You may have seen Irish step dance in such shows as 'Riverdance' or on television. It has lots of fancy footwork and rapid leg movements, but dancers keep the upper body and arms straight and still.\" (Washington Post) Read more about Irish step dance and the young dancers who compete.
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