Table of Contents – 2nd International Conference Proceedings

Dance Research Forum Ireland’s 2nd International Conference Proceedings

Mediating Movement: Communication and Dance

Ed. Sharon A. Phelan

Published by Dance Research Forum Ireland 2009
© Dance Research Forum Ireland

Contents

Keynote Address    3
Dance, Meaning, and the Ambiguities of Communicability    4
Dr Andrée Grau, Reader in the Anthropology of Dance, Roehampton University London
Communicating the Past    15
The Narrative:  A Choreographic and a Literary Model    16
Sharon Phelan, Institute of Technology, Tralee
The Role of Social Dance in Co. Roscommon in the 1940s and 1950s    21
Sean Shanagher, DCU, Ireland
Bach-Busoni Chaccone:  The Intersection of Transcription and Interpretation Embracing Experience, Knowledge and History    27
The Bach-Busoni Chaconne:  Intersections of Transcription and Interpretation    28
Lisa Fusillo, Ph.D.University of Georgia
Bach-Busoni Chaconne:  A few thoughts of a pianist on why this piece is so beautiful and popular    35
Marina Fabrikant, UNL(NE) and Union College(NE)
Dance Pedagogy    47
Pedagogy and Practice: Towards a Transdisciplinary Model for Choreographic Practice and Analysis    48
Kathrina Farrugia, Royal Academy of Dance, London
Dance Identity    57
No Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity and the Dancing Body in Irish – Based Contemporary Dance    58
Finola Cronin, UCD, Dublin
Competing with Gender: An Examination of Techniques employed by Women, their Motivations and Experiences within the Irish Dance Competition Scene.    65
Kathleen Keenan, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dance Methodologies and Media    75
From Text to the Figural    76
Renate Bräuninger, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Out of the Museum:  Communicating Dance by Notation.    83
Gabriella Asaro, Universities of Rome “La Sapienza” and Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Reclaiming the ‘Art’ in Arts Research: Weblogs and Dance Praxis    92
Sheila Creevey, University of Limerick, Ireland
Lecture Demonstration    103
Laban’s Concepts of Kinesphere and Dynamosphere as Tools for Expressiveness and Stage Presence in Dance Performance    104
Sylvie Pinard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Performance-Audience Communication     111
Irish Dance Music – For the Feet or for the Soul    112
Orfhlaith M. Ní Bhriain, University of Limerick, Ireland
Observations of Communication between Dancer and Musician in the Cape Breton Community    119
Mats Melin, University of Limerick, Ireland
Practice-Based Research Demonstration    127
ModERIN Dance Workshop (Written Component)    128
Darrah Carr, Hofstra University, New York, USA
Biographies    135
Photographs    139