A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors discuss modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its impact on different art forms and discourses in Irish and German culture. Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif and a specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance, while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German literature, visual art, and architecture.
Chapter One: Modernism, Migration, and Irish-German Connections in the 1930s and 1940s: The Impact of Modern Physics and Dance on Ireland Gisela Holfter Chapter Two: Erina Brady: Mary Wigman's Irish Disciple? Deirdre Mulrooney Chapter Three: Duality of Cultural Influences as a Source of Insight and Inspiration: The Collaboration between Aloys Fleischmann and Joan Moriarty 19471992 Ruth Fleischmann Chapter Four: Irish Dance Documentation for the Archive: A Personal Reflection on Irish-German Connections and Intellectual Inheritances Catherine E. Foley Chapter Five: "Somewhere Between Remembering and Forgetting": An Examination of the Choreographic Process Inspired by the Poem "The Man Made of Rain" by Brendan Kennelly Marguerite Donlon Chapter Six: Creating Tanztheater: Finding Ireland with Pina? Finola Cronin Chapter Seven: Irish Modernism and the History and Aesthetics of Dance Susan Jones Chapter Eight: Rhythm and Colour: The Legacy of Dance in 1930s Joyce and Beckett Siobhan Purcell Chapter Nine: Yeats's Transgressive Dancers Margaret Mills Harper Chapter Ten: "I as a Text," I as a Dance: On the Relationship of Contemporary Dance and Contemporary Poetry with Reference to Anne Juren, Martina Hefter, Monika Rinck, and Philipp Gehmacher Lucia Ruprecht Chapter Eleven: Dancing between Transgression and the Carnivalesque after 1945/1989: Johannes Bobrowski and Katja Petrowskaja Sabine Egger Chapter Twelve: Dance and the Postmodern Subject in "Libidooekonomie" and "Der Kranich auf dem Kiesel in der Pfutze" by Feridun Zaimoglu Joseph Twist Chapter Thirteen: "Alive. Changing. New": Impulses of the Jaques-Dalcroze Dance Institute on the Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Tanja Poppelreuter and Jan Frohburg
