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Speakers:
Dr Catherine Foley, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Title: The Sionna Set Dance: Continuity and Change'
Dr Barbara O Connor DCU
Mats Melin, Irish World Academy
John Fennell, Hell for Leather School of Dance, Kilrush Co Clare.
About the Speakers:
Barbara O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. She has an academic background in sociology and social anthropology and her research interests include popular cultural forms and practices such as tourism, dance and media. She has published widely in each of these areas. Her dance publications include : ''Safe Sets': Women, Dance, and 'Communitas' ' in H. Thomas (ed.), Dance in the City. London: Macmillan Press, 1996; 'Riverdance' in Michel Peillon and Eamonn Slater (eds.) Irish Sociological Chronicles volume 1 (1995-96): Encounters with Modern Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998; "Come Dance with me in Irelande": dance performance in tourist settings', in Michael Cronin and Barbara O'Connor (eds.) Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity. Clevedon: Channel View Publications, 2003; 'Ruin and Romance': Heterosexual Discourses on Irish Popular Dance, 1920-1960': Irish Journal of Sociology, 12/2, 2003; 'Sexing the Nation: Discourses of the Dance Hall in Ireland in the 1930s': Journal of Gender Studies, 14/ 2, July, 2005; 'The Irish Dancing Body, 1920s -1960s' in D. Mulrooney, Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2006.
Dr Catherine Foley designed and is course director of the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. She also supervises doctorate research in dance at the Academy. Catherine is founder and Chair of Dance Research Forum Ireland; she established the dance festival Tráth na gCos in 1997 and co-ordinated and directed it until 2004. Catherine was Chair of the Society of Dance History Scholars' 26th Annual International Conference in 2003, and Dance Research Forum Ireland's 1st International Conference in 2006; both conferences were hosted at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. In 2005 she choreographed a newly commissioned set dance called The Sionna Set Dance; this was subsequently published as an educational package. Catherine is a member of many professional bodies; has taught at all levels within the education system, from primary level to doctorate level - within both an academic and performance capacity. She has presented and published in her areas of expertise and has performed, lectured and given workshops in different countries in Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States.
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