Critical Correspondence
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick #4
This past month at the IPEDAK conference on Dance Knowledge in Trondheim issues of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage brought the notion of authenticity to the forefront of discussions. Firstly I must express that I attributed this to the amount of folk lore scholars at the conference, but upon reflection and recent articles concerning […]
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick #3
Colin Dunne: A Contemporary Perspective on Irish Dance In 1996 New York dance critic, Marcia Siegel , in lieu of viewing an onslaught of big budget multicultural dance extravaganzas that season, reflected on her experience of Riverdance, as promoting, “tourism and political credibility” (1996:467). She ends her story in Hudson Review, Multicult-The Show, with the […]
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick #2
Terrain and Territory The generation of land-based plastic and performance art is a concentrated effort in communicating relation. This association of body and terrain is a subjective process of linking cultural identity to our built environments 1: a symbiont discourse regarding the construction of place. Bourdieu, in his notion of habitus, refers to this idiomatic […]
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick
February 25, 2009 This week I had the pleasure to attend seminars and workshops at the University of Limerick by Dr. Mats Nilsson, a Swedish dance ethnologist, historian and senior lecturer at the University of Gottenberg. Though the breadth of our study of Swedish dance culture was of intrigue, there was a particular element of […]
