Schedule of Events

13.00 – 17.00

18.30

19.30

09.00 – 10.00

09.00 – 09.45

10.00 – 11.40

Irish Dance: Local and Global Perspectives (Papers); Chair: Dr Catherine Foley

‘At the Crossroads: Irish Dance Costuming from the Local to the Global’ – Irene Horgan
‘Dancing Costumes and the Fashioning of Global Irish Identity’ – Elizabeth Venable
‘Dance in Kerry: Cultural Conflict in Modern Ireland’ – Sharon Phelan
‘Fertile Stomping Ground: Irish Dance Innovations in the Boston Celtic Music Scene’ – Kieran Jordan

11.40 – 12.00

Lecture Demonstration: Breandán de Gallaí

Dance at the Crossroads in Scotland 2006 (Panel discussion); Chair: Victoria O’Brien

‘Thoughts on where Scottish Traditional Dancing is at in 2006′ – Mats Melin
‘Highland Dancing – a traditional heritage or an exercise in technical excellence?’ – Gareth Mitchelson
‘Why are we seemingly afraid of looking deeper down the well?’ – Frank McConnell

15.30 – 16.00

Dance Education in Ireland (Papers);Chair: Deirdre Mulrooney

‘Maintaining, Redefining and Challenging Dance Boundaries: Irish Traditional Dance within Third Level Education’ – Catherine Foley
‘The Institutionalisation of Competitive Irish Step Dance’ – Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain
‘Dance Education in Ireland: Which Crossroad?’ – Anica Louw

Sean Nós Dance Workshop with Páraic O hOibicín

09.00 – 10.00

09.00 – 09.45

10.00 – 11.30

Practice Based Approaches to Dance (Papers). Chair: Olive Beecher

‘Why Did the Choreographer Cross the Road? Undertaking Practice-as-research in a New Context’ – Mary Nunan
‘Inner and Outer Boundaries: Tracing the Border between the Irish Contemporary Dancer and the Dance’ – Jenny Roche
‘ModERIN’ – Darrah Carr

11.30 – 12.00

Lecture Demonstration: John Scott

How Irish is Irish Dance? (Panel discussion). Chair: Mats Melin

‘Re-Examining the Influence of Irish Step and Clog Dance on American Tap Dance – Constance Valis Hill
‘John Blacking and the Concept of Culture’ – Mo Dodson
‘Dance and Politics: Surface and Undertow’ – Terry Monaghan

15.30 – 16.00

Documenting and Reconstructing Dance (Papers). Chair: Roberta Raymond Nolan

‘At a Crossroads: Dance and Irish Culture – The Relationship Between Preservation and Documentation’ – Erin Tisdale
‘An Irish Ballet from the Crossroads: Puck Fair (1941) – Victoria O’Brien

Contemporary Dance Workshop with Michael Klien

CruX Dance Company, Catherine Young and Daghdha Dance Company

09.00 – 10.00

Liberating Dance Workshop with Kalichi

10.15 – 11.45

Dance and National Identity (Papers). Chair: Barbara O’Connor

‘Nationalism in Dance: The Singapore Perspective – Francis Yeoh
‘Irish Themes within Modern Dance in Ireland’ – Olive Beecher
‘Freeing the Body: Freeing the Nation’ – Deirdre Mulrooney

11.45 – 12.30