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Launch of the National Dance Archive of Ireland at the Irish World Academy November 14th
11. 11. 2011 | 60 reads
The National Dance Archive of Ireland (Cartlann Náisiúnta Damhsa na hÉireann) will be officially opened by Mr Jimmy Deenihan, T.D., Minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, at 17.30, Monday, 14th November, 2011, at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. It will be preceded by a seminar on Dance Archives with speakers including Dr Laszlo Felfoldi, Director of the Folk Dance Department of theHungarianAcademy of Sciences Institute for Musicology,Budapest; Sharon Maxwell, National Resource Centre for Dance,Surry University,England; and Dr Catherine Foley, the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,University ofLimerick. The event will conclude with short dance performances from Catherine Foley, Mary Nunan, Piedra-Alba Perez-Alcantara, Patricia Crosbie and Hannah Windows.
Dunne Family - photo Maurice Gunning
The National Dance Archive of Ireland is to be housed in the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick and works in partnership with Dance Research Forum Ireland, the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Arts Council. The Archive is the first of its kind inIreland and is the most comprehensive in the country. It is committed to collecting, preserving, digitizing and cataloguing multimedia dance material, and to providing access and guidance to the collections; these include traditional dance, social dance, contemporary dance, ballet, urban dance and world dance. The National Dance Archive is an important public resource for dance education and research. It is a living Archive that forges links with dancers, scholars, choreographers, companies and organisations of dance in the wider community.
The National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI) was pioneered from 2005 by Dance Research Forum Irelandin partnership with the Glucksman Library and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. In 2008, the Arts Council awarded funding to Dance Research Forum Irelandfor a feasibility report and in 2009 awarded two-year seed funding for the set-up phase of the Archive at the Glucksman Library, Universityof Limerick. Today, the Archive is home to numerous collections of dance generously donated by individuals, companies and dance organisations. According to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the Universityof Limerick, “The establishment of the National Dance Archive of Ireland at the University of Limerick, is a direct follow on from the inspired and inclusive vision of Dance Research Forum Ireland, across ballet, contemporary, traditional, popular and world dance genres.” Dr Catherine Foley, Project Leader of the National Dance Archive and course director of the MA Ethnochoreology and MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes at the University of Limerick states, “ Many dancers, choreographers, dance companies and dance institutions have already donated their collections and these now form the backbone of the Archive. The Archive is is inclusive of all dance forms and therefore dancers, no matter what their dance background and experience, have something to contribute to the Archive. These can be anything from scrap books and photographs to DVDs and books. The National Dance Archive is an important public resource for anybody interested in dance”.
The National Dance Archive of Ireland will be launched at the Irish World Academy on November 15th at 5.30 pm
Further information: Ellen Byrne, Irish World Academy. Phone: + 353 61 202917 ellen.byrne@ul.ie
(From website of Irish World Academy of music and dance)