Open AccessArtistic Style and Cultural Representation of Irish Step Dance - Take Riverdance as an Example
Author(s) -
Delong Kong
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of education and culture studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2573-041X
pISSN - 2573-0401
DOI - 10.22158/jecs.v5n4p19
Subject(s) - irish , dance , style (visual arts) , boom , the renaissance , visual arts , aesthetics , identity (music) , history , art , perception , sociology , psychology , art history , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , environmental engineering , neuroscience
In Ireland, Irish step dance has been a national identity for a long time. For many people in the world, Riverdance was their first impression about Irish step dance. It brought a boom and a renaissance of Irish step dance. In the twenty-first century, more than twenty years after the Riverdance boom, have people’s perception of Riverdance and Irish culture changed? Thus, this essay explores the experiences of Irish dancing and culture of former Riverdance dancers and audiences in 2021.