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For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing are much more complicated and fluid. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ireland, she tells its story from roots in eighteenth-century Ireland to its diverse cultural manifestations today. She examines the interrelationships between step dancing and the changing historical and cultural contexts of colonialism, nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization, and shows that step dancing is a powerful tool of embodiment and meaning that can provoke important questions relating to culture and identity through the bodies of those who perform it. Focusing on the rural European region of North Kerry in the south-west of Ireland, Catherine Foley examines three step-dance practices: one, the ru

Catherine foleyNational folk theatre of irelandGaelic leagueNorth kerryNational folk theatreகேத்தரின் ஃபோலீதேசிய நாட்டுப்புற திரையரங்கம் ஆஃப் ஐயர்ல்யாஂட்கேலிக் லீக்வடக்கு கெர்ரிதேசிய நாட்டுப்புற திரையரங்கம்