This study, one of the few academic analyses of the socio-cultural aspects of contemporary competitive clogging, briefly summarises the history of group clogging from its rural beginnings in the Southeastern Appalachian ...

The 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology took place at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland, from 22nd – 29th July, ...

This paper addresses the ethnochoreological perspective in dance research and suggests that this perspecive assists in mediating conservative dualist approaches to dance studies in Ireland which traditionally focused on ...

This thesis explores potential expressive possibilities in dance performance and choreography, with Irish step dance as its point of departure. The core data for this exploration derives from two newly choreographed ...

For over a hundred years the Irish céilí, as an ‘invented’ social dance event and mode of interaction, has played a significant and changing role. This paper examines the invention of this Irish dance event and how it ...

Maypole Dancing and Other Body Movements in a Neo-Pagan Bealtaine Ritual in Ireland This thesis examines the role of dance and body movements within a specific Pagan ritual in present day Ireland, namely Bealtaine. The ...

Up until the 1980s, dance in Ireland existed as an important human activity, engaged in for various reasons: socialization, entertainment, competition, performance, tourism, ceremonial occasions, and so on. It was not, ...

This paper looks at the notion and process of collecting, recording and representing Irish traditional music, song and dance for archival purposes.  It examines the role of the archive in the Western world and focuses on ...

Since about 1990 Cape Breton musicians and step dancers have been invited to Scotland to share, through workshops and concerts, their style of music and dance. A relatively small number of the traditional dancing and music ...

In this paper I examine the appropriation of one particular version of solo traditional set dances from the region of North Kerry, Ireland, by teachers of competitive step dancing and by competitive step dancers for ...