Aoife McGrath

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2011 2013 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2024

• 8 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 6 Commissioned report
• 6 Article
• 5 Performance
• 9 More
  • 3 Book
  • 1 Chapter
  • 1 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Special issue
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Sites of significance. Final report

  Durrer, V., McGrath, A. & Tsampazi, A., 01 Aug 2024, Cavan County Council. 80 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • Pathway 100%
  • Administrative Structure 100%
  • Ireland 100%
  • Global 66%
  • Engage-ment 66%

• Sites of Significance Film

  McGrath, A., Simon Mills & Sorca McGrath, 01 Aug 2024

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  Open Access

  File

  • Belfast 100%
  • Administrative Structure 100%
  • Ireland 100%
  • Border Region 100%
  • Pathway 100%
  7 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  Building capacity for the cultural industries: towards a shared-island approach for dance and theatre

  Durrer, V., McGrath, A. & McAlister, E., 09 Jan 2023, Irish Research Council. 90 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File

  • Dance 100%
  • Cultural industries 100%
  • Islands 100%
  • Cultural Industry 100%
  • Capacity Building 100%
  100 Downloads (Pure)

• Dancing impossible histories: commemoration, memory and trauma in screendance

  McGrath, A., 20 Apr 2023, Theatre, performance and commemoration. Staging crisis, memory and nationhood. Cochrane , C., Haughton, M., Fernandes, A. B. P., Verstraete, P. & McConachie, B. (eds.). Bloomsbury Methuen, p. 194-216 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Labour 100%
  • Dance 100%
  • Commemoration 100%
  • Impossible 100%
  • History 100%
  36 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Artists' mobility across borders: a mixed methods approach to understanding dance on the island of Ireland

  Durrer, V., McGrath, A. & Campbell, P., 07 Dec 2022, (Early online date) In: Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy. 8, 2, p. 115-136

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Understanding 100%
  • Ireland 100%
  • Islands 100%
  • Dance 100%
  • Compound Mobility 100%
  50 Downloads (Pure)

• Dance Counts: A report on the living and working conditions of dance artists on the island of Ireland

  McGrath, A., Durrer, V. & Campbell, P., 01 Jun 2022, Dublin: Dance Ireland. 39 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File

  • Universities 100%
  • Ireland 100%
  • Working Conditions 100%
  • Living Conditions 100%
  • Islands 100%
  75 Downloads (Pure)

• Dancing with Epistemic Borders: Knowledge and unknowns in mixed-methods Practice-as-Research (PaR) collaborations between dance and social science

  McGrath, A., Durrer, V. & Campbell, P., 03 Mar 2022, In: Performance Research. 26, 4, p. 95-103 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Knowledge 100%
  • Collaboration 100%
  • Social Sciences 100%
  • Dance 100%
  • Practice as research 100%
  131 Downloads (Pure)

• Establishing Common Ground. Building Capacity for the Cultural Industries: Towards a Shared-Island Approach- Workshop 1 Discussion Paper

  Durrer, V., McAlister, E. & McGrath, A., 01 Jun 2022, Irish Research Council. 31 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File

  • Research 100%
  • Common ground 100%
  • Cultural industries 100%
  • Arts 60%
  • dance theatre 40%
  20 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Buchbesprechung / Book Review: Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture. Connections in Motion 

  McGrath, A., 01 Nov 2021, Germanistik in Ireland:Jahrbuch der / Yearbook of the Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland. Special Issue: “The Right Blend” – Mischung, Überblendung und Identität in interkulturellen Kontexten. Hartung Gorre Verlag, Vol. 16. p. 245-246 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

  File
  38 Downloads (Pure)

• Dance Conversations

  McGrath, A. (Director), Wycherley, M. (Director), Simpson, J. (Composer), Lee, Y. (Performer), McCormick, A. (Performer), McGreevy, M. (Performer), Schneider, L. (Performer), Svensson, M. (Performer) & Quigley, K. (Performer), 05 Nov 2021

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  Open Access

  • Dance 100%
  • Artists 40%
  • Scheme 20%
  • Media 20%
  • Arts 20%

• Dance Think Tanks Report

  McGrath, A., 18 Mar 2021, Dance Ireland. 29 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File

  • Dance 100%
  • Artists 50%
  • Structure 25%
  • Scheme 25%
  • Arts 25%
  61 Downloads (Pure)

• Sounding a Quietening: breastfeeding choreographies and the sonic-corporeal dialogue of maternal experience

  McGrath, A., 28 Jul 2021, In: Theatre Research International. 46, 2, p. 148-168 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Breastfeeding 100%
  • Dialogue 100%
  • Choreography 100%
  • Social Scientist 100%
  • Methodology 25%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  64 Downloads (Pure)

• Sounding Corporeality: Editorial

  McGrath, A., Tan, M., Havelkova, T. & Purkayastha, P., 28 Jul 2021, In: Theatre Research International. 46, 2, p. 108-114 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Corporeality 100%
  • Esthetics 50%
  • Moral Concepts 25%
  • Music 25%
  • Rhythm 25%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  46 Downloads (Pure)

• Theatre Research International Special Issue, 'Sounding Corporeality

  McGrath, A., Tan, M. C. C., Purkayastha, P. & Havelková, T., Jul 2021, In: Theatre Research International. 46, 2, p. 107-260 154 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Corporeality 100%
  • Theater Research 100%
  • Esthetics 50%
  • Moral Concepts 25%
  • Music 25%
• 2020

  Oona Doherty, DDF Artist in Residence, 2020-2022. A curated essay by Aoife McGrath

  McGrath, A., 01 Jun 2020, Dublin Dance Festival.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  • artist-in-residence 100%
  • Festivals 66%
  • Digital 66%
  • Labour 33%
  • Films 33%
• 2019

  Dance and Borders

  McGrath, A., McGrady, O. & Mooney, J., 20 Dec 2019, In: Animated: current issues and practice in participatory dance. 19, 2, p. 22-25 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

  • Dance 100%
  • Local 20%
  • Artists 20%
  • Success 20%
  • Researchers 20%
  131 Downloads (Pure)

• Lady Magma: The birth and death of a cult

  McGrath, A. & Doherty, O., 19 Nov 2019, 41 p. (Blurb - Fine Arts )

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Labour 100%
  • Cult 100%
  • Choreographer 100%
  • Birth 100%
  • Work 100%
• 2018

  Let Down: Dance Performance

  McGrath, A., 04 Aug 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  • Performance 100%
  • Breastfeeding 100%
  • UK 66%
  • Work 66%
  • Experience 33%

• The Dance of Affect in Contemporary Irish Dance Theatre

  McGrath, A., 07 Oct 2018, The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Weitz, E. & Jordan, E. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 667-682 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • dance theatre 100%
  • Contemporary 100%
  • Affective 100%
  • Encounter 83%
  • Dance 66%

• Within: Body + Time: Dance Performance

  McGrath, A., 02 Feb 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  • Labour 100%
  • Dance 50%
  • Solo 50%
  • Theatre 50%
  • Dramaturgy 50%
• 2017

  Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice

  McGrath, A. & Meehan, E., 29 Nov 2017, Palgrave Macmillan. 223 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Contemporary dance 100%
  • Dance Matter 100%
  • Dancers 75%
  • Books 50%
  • Labour 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Discomforting/disarming touch: Experiencing affective contradiction in improvisatory dance performance

  McGrath, A., 29 Dec 2017, Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, p. 79-91 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Introduction

  McGrath, A. & Meehan, E., 29 Dec 2017, Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

• Please: Dance Performance

  McGrath, A., 29 May 2017

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  • Work 100%
  • Performance 100%
  • Patients 100%
  • Interviews 100%
  • Groups 100%
• 2016

  Choreographies of Irish Modernity

  McGrath, A., 01 Oct 2016, Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture. Reynolds, P. (ed.). London: Anthem Press, p. 153-162 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Dance 100%
  • Labour 37%
  • Space 25%
  • Modernist 25%
  • Kinesthetic 25%

• 'Dancing the Downward Slide: Spaces of Affective Adjacency in Rian and Bird with Boy'

  McGrath, A., 15 Sept 2016, 'Dancing the Downward Slide: Spaces of Affective Adjacency in Rian and Bird with Boy': Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion. DeFrantz, T. & Rothfield, P. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 193-207 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Space 100%
  • Affective 100%
  • Choreography 100%
  • dance theatre 50%
  • Labour 50%

• "Do you want to see my hornpipe?": the traditional Irish dancing body at play in the work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne’

  McGrath, A., 14 Jan 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Shay, A. & Sellers-Young, B. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 41-65 25 p. oxfordhb-9780199754281-e-017. (Oxford Handbook).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Dancing Body 100%
  • Labour 100%
  • Tradition 100%
  • Hornpipe 100%
  • Work 100%
• 2014

  The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities, 1900-2000

  McGrath, A., Dec 2014, In: Dance Research Journal. 46, Special Issue 3, p. 129-132 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Advance Online Version (revised for final print publication) “Do You Want to See My Hornpipe?”: Creativity and Irish Step Dance in the work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne

  McGrath, A., Dec 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Shay, A. (ed.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Labour 100%
  • Dance 100%
  • Online 100%
  • Hornpipe 100%
  • Work 100%

• Arts Council Ballet Policy Review

  McGrath, A., O'Brien, V. & Purnell, D., Nov 2013, Dublin: Arts Council of Ireland. 40 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • Policy 100%
  • Art 100%
  • Administrative Structure 100%
  • Contexts 100%
  • Arts 100%

• Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves

  McGrath, A., 2013, Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 227 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • dance theatre 100%
  • Dance 60%
  • Global 20%
  • beast 20%
  • Contemporary 20%
  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre's Giselle and The Rite of Spring

  McGrath, A., May 2011, In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 21, 2, p. 154-170 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Emerging Dance Scholarship in Ireland

  McGrath, A., 31 Oct 2011, In: Theatre Research International. 36 , 3, p. 289-291 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Higher Education Finance 100%
  • Research 50%
  • Contemporary 50%
  • Dancing Body 50%
  • Dance 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• The less you bump, the faster you go?: staged scenes of Dissensus in CoisCéim's Dodgems

  McGrath, A., Dec 2011, Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice. Trench, R. (ed.). Peter Lang, p. 255-268 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review