TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural memory, step dancing, representation and performance
T2 - An examination of Tearmann and the great famine
AU - Foley, Catherine
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper examines the concept of cultural memory and explores how it shapes and is shaped by theatrical representation and performance. To this end, the paper focuses on one historical and cultural event in Ireland, the Great Famine of 1845-1849, and examines its folk theatrical representation in the production, Tearmann (translated Refuge),1 produced by Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. It also examines how dancing played an important role in the production and how it assisted in shaping, and being shaped by, cultural memories of the Great Famine.
AB - This paper examines the concept of cultural memory and explores how it shapes and is shaped by theatrical representation and performance. To this end, the paper focuses on one historical and cultural event in Ireland, the Great Famine of 1845-1849, and examines its folk theatrical representation in the production, Tearmann (translated Refuge),1 produced by Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. It also examines how dancing played an important role in the production and how it assisted in shaping, and being shaped by, cultural memories of the Great Famine.
KW - Cultural memory
KW - Folk theatre
KW - Great Famine
KW - Ireland
KW - Siamsa tíre
KW - Step dancing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953735830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3986/Traditio2015440207
DO - 10.3986/Traditio2015440207
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953735830
SN - 0352-0447
VL - 44
SP - 135
EP - 148
JO - Traditiones
JF - Traditiones
IS - 2
ER -