Dance Theatre in Ireland

AOIFE McGRATH is Lecturer in the Drama Department at Queen's University Belfast, Ireland and recently completed her doctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Trinity College Dublin gold medallist and the winner of the Irish Society of Theatre Research's inaugural New Scholar's Prize (2011). She is a dancer and choreographer and has worked as the dance adviser for the Irish Arts Council.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Danced Precedents from Yeats to Davis Genre Debates: the Dance and the Bathwater Choreographing Narratives: Buried Bodies and Constitutive Stories in The Bull and Ballads Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Giselle and The Rite of Spring Choreographing Dissensus: Dodgems and Roundabouts Concluding Thoughts and Future Moves Select Bibliography Index