A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors discuss modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its impact on different art forms and discourses in Irish and German culture. Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif and a specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance, while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German literature, visual art, and architecture.

Contributions by: Finola Cronin, Marguerite Donlon, Sabine Egger, Ruth Fleischmann, Catherine E. Foley, Jan Frohburg, Margaret Mills Harper, Gisela Holfter, Susan Jones, Deirdre Mulrooney, Tanja Poppelreuter, Siobhán Purcell, Lucia Ruprecht, Joseph Twist