16th International Conference in Irish-German Studies

Connections in Motion: Dance in Irish and German Literature, Film and Culture

Irish Centre of Transnational Studies (Mary Immaculate College) and Centre of Irish-German Studies (University of Limerick) in collaboration with the Irish World Academy for Music and Dance, the School of Culture and Communication, the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics and the School of Design

31 October - 1 November 2016, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick

The conference will explore Irish-German connections through dance from the 1920s to the present. It includes presentations on dance in literature, theatre, film, architecture, archives and education. Presentations address dance in Irish and German modernism, choreographies of space in locations such as Ardnacrusha, dance in early German film and contemporary literature, and the transgression of boundaries. Films to be screened will include Deirdre Mulrooney’s Dance Emergency (2014), about the Irish-German modern dancer and teacher Erina Brady, and Wim Wenders’ film Pina (2011), based on the work of the German pioneer of Tanztheater, Pina Bausch. The event will open with an exhibition on the Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon, who made her name in Saarbrücken, and is currently working with the Bolshoi Ballet; it will close with a live performance of a new choreography by Donlon.

 

The following links should bring you to the programme and information on registration for the event.

Further information can also be found under http://www.ictstudies.eu  and http://ulsites.ul.ie/irishgerman/node/19111.

 

Programme:

Monday, 31.10.2016

 

10.00 Registration

10.30 Welcome and Opening of the Exhibition on Marguerite Donlon, based on the collection of the National Dance Archive of Ireland

 

11.00-12.30 Session I:  Irish-German Encounters I

Chair: Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (Limerick)

Catherine Foley (Limerick): Cultural Connections through Dance Documentation in the Archive

Marguerite Donlon (Berlin): The Creative Melting Pot

Finola Cronin (Dublin): Creating Tanztheater: Finding Ireland with Pina

 

Lunch break

 

1.30-3.00 Session II:  Irish-German Encounters II 

Chair: Sabine Egger (Limerick)

Joachim Fischer (Limerick)): Ardnacrusha and Metropolis

Gisela Holfter (Limerick): Modernism and Irish-German Connections in the 1930s & 1940s

Ruth Fleischmann (Bielefeld): Irish Ballet, Aloys Fleischmann and Joan Denise Moriarty

 

Coffee break

 

3.30-5.00 Session III: A Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Dance in 1940s Ireland

Chair: Sarah Moore (Dublin)

Screening of Dance Emergency (TG4, by Deirdre Mulrooney)

Deirdre Mulrooney (Dublin): Erina Brady

 

5.15-6.00 Roundtable: Dance, Education and Intercultural Connections

Chair: Gisela Holfter

Melanie Neumann (Berlin), Dorothy Morrissey (Limerick), Brigitte Moody (Limerick), Angie Smalis (LYT/Dance Limerick)

 

Conference dinner

Tuesday, 1.11.2016

 

9.00-10.30 Session IV: Connections in Motion in Modern Irish Literature

Chair:  Carrie Griffin (Limerick)

Susan Jones (Oxford): Beckett, Oskar Schlemmer and Dance

Siobhan Purcell (Galway):  Rhythm and Colour: Dance and Disability in the 1930s Joyce and Beckett

Margaret Harper (Limerick):  Yeats’s Transgressive Dancers

               

Coffee break

 

11.00-12.30 Session V: Connections in Motion in (Post-)Modern German literature and film

Chair: Marieke Krajenbrink (Limerick)

Lucia Ruprecht (Cambridge): Gesture between the Auratic and the Profane – Reading Franz Kafka and Niddy Impekoven with Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben

Christiane Schönfeld (Limerick): Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy – Anita Berber, Sebastian Droste and Rosa von Praunheim

Sabine Egger (Limerick): Dance as Transgression or Transit in Contemporary German Literature

 

Lunch break

 

1.30-3.00 Session VI: The Modern Movement 

Chair: Niamh NicGhabhann (Limerick)

Jan Frohburg (Limerick): Setting the Scene – Festspielhaus Hellerau

Tanja Poppelreuter (Belfast): Spaces for the elevated personal life – Hans Prinzhorn and Mies van der Rohe

Shane O’Toole (Kilkenny): Architecture meets Dance in Dublin – Noel Moffett and Erina Brady

Simon Walker (Limerick): Four Spaces for Choreography – The Book of Kells, Merzbau, the Barcelona Pavilion and Bótharbuí

 

Coffee break 

 

3.30 Screening of Wim Wenders’ Film Pina, introduced by Deirdre Mulrooney (Dublin)    

 

5.00 Performance of a New Choreography by Marguerite Donlon, developed with the students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance and the MA Contemporary Dance Performance programmes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

 

End of conference

 

 

With best wishes, also in the name of the co-organisers,

Sabine Egger and Gisela Holfter

 

Dr. Sabine Egger
Department of German Studies
Mary Immaculate College
-University of Limerick-
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Coordinator
Irish Centre of Transnational Studies (ICTS)
Web: www.ictstudies.eu