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Michael Seaver

writings on dance and culture

Recent features :

A clear voice amidst lines and circles

Published 2006, Bates Dance Festival

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Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Scourge at Bates Dance Festival 2006.

Read it on the Bates Dance Festival website here

Honest Bodies in Untruthful Times

Published 2006, Bates Dance Festival

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Robert Moses Dance Company programme at Bates Dance Festival 2006.

Read it on the Bates Dance Festival website here

Questions on Obedient Art

Published 2003, Institute of Choreography and Dance

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Christmas Day is prime time for television programmers. In the midst of an unchallenging collection of soap opera specials and popular action movies, Christmas Day 2002 was the day chosen by RTÉ, Ireland’s state broadcaster, to screen Hit and Run, a dance film by Coiscéim Dance Theatre that they co-financed along with Bord Scannán na h-Éireann (The Irish Film Board) and An Chomhairle Ealaíon (The Arts Council). This is either an indication of dance’s increased visibility and importance in Irish society or a very unusual decision by television programmers.

Stepping into footprints: features a range of international perspectives on dance pedagogy, the body, performance, and dance and culture. The opening chapter is Michael Seaver's reflection on Ireland's changing dance culture, entitled Stepping into footprints: Tradition and the globalization of Irish Dance.

published by Human Kinetics (USA), May 2008
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Edging Towards Centre Stage: Living Dance History in Contemporary Ireland

Afterword to Dancing on the Edge of Europe.

published ICD, 2003

Dance

in Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland, from A to Z

Ballantine Books (New York) 2005