Dancing As If Language No Longer Existed Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama 1st Edition by Katarzyna Ojrzynska 3034318138 9783034318136

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ISBN 10: 3034318138
ISBN 13: 9783034318136
Author: Katarzyna Ojrzynska

This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expression by the local culture. The author approaches this issue from a cultural materialist perspective, demonstrating that dance in twentieth-century Ireland was particularly prone to ideological appropriation and that, consequently, its use in contemporary drama often serves to communicate critical and revisionist approaches to the social, economic and political concerns addressed in these plays. The book makes a valuable contribution to current debates about the nature of Irish theatre, investigating recent changes to its traditional, text-based character. These are examined within two important contexts: firstly, transformations in the perception of the human body in Irish culture and, secondly, changes in the attitude of the Irish towards their past and their cultural heritage.

Dancing As If Language No Longer Existed Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Irish Dance and its Transformations in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 2: Dance in Pre-Nationalist Times
2.1 The Celtic Spirit versus Catholic Morality in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa
2.2 “Any admittance for Captain Mummer and his men?” The Theatrical Revival of Folk Dance and Drama in Vincent Woods’s At the Black Pig’s Dyke
2.3 Dance that Excites the Desires of Body and Soul – Shona McCarthy’s Married to the Sea
Chapter 3: Dance in Nationalist Times
3.1 Dancing in the Irish “Cold Climate” – the Use of Dance in Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan
3.2 Dance, Violence and Homoerotic Desire in Thomas Kilroy’s Christ Deliver Us! and Brian Friel’s The Gentle Island
3.3 The Swinging Sixties in Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom
3.4 The Fight between Carnival and Lent: Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger
Chapter 4: Dance in Post-Nationalist Times
4.1 If Only One Could Dance Back in Time … – Dermot Bolger’s The Lament for Arthur Cleary
4.2 Dance, Sex and Violence in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs
4.3 In Search of the Lost Spirituality – Dance as a Part of the Ritual of Healing in Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee and Declan Hughes’s H

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