Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland
Author: MULROONEY, Deirdre.
Dublin: Liffey Press, 2006. xiv, 295 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
Irish Moves explores and celebrates the history of dance in Ireland. Featuring many rare and striking images, this meticulously researched volume showcases — and in some cases salvages — the stories of Ireland’s unsung movers: actors, dancers, choreographers, playwrights, directors. It describes in their own voices the creative journeys taken by Ninette de Valois, Colin Dunne, Jean Butler, David Bolger, Tom Hickey, John Scott, Joan Davis and many more — artists past and present who have devoted their lives to physical expression, despite the fact that in Ireland their medium was largely ignored and, in some cases, erased from memory, such as the long forgotten Abbey School of Ballet.
Irish Moves not only provides a map of dance and physical theatre in Ireland, it is also a meditation on the Irish nation’s complicated attitude to the body. As the author explores how the Irish moved from “the naked man galloping bareback across Kilkee Strand in celebration of the festival of Lughnasa, to the alarmingly straitjacketed movements of our ‘national’ dance”, the book offers surprising and sometimes disconcerting revelations about Irish society. But this is no dry history: Irish Moves is an engaging and entertaining book certain to appeal to performers, scholars and enthusiasts alike.
ISBN: 1904148921
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