Step dancing in Newfoundland and Labrador has endured a significant contextual shift in order to remain relevant as both cultural piece and performance genre and it continues to evolve in context and function today, while adhering to Newfoundland’s collective identity. Through its examination of the St. Pat’s Dancers, a St. John’s-based children’s step dancing group, this article addresses the larger philosophical questions of authenticity, heritage and revival in vernacular dance. As a case study in Newfoundland vernacular dance, the St. Pat’s Dancers links together notions of heritage promotion and preservation, and the commodification of culture through the lens of Irishness that is prevalent in Newfoundland culture.Le step dancing à Ter...
non-peer reviewedSince about 1990 Cape Breton musicians and step dancers have been invited to Scotla...
In the past few decades, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has been increasingly viewed as inherently I...
In Ireland, Irish step dance has been a national identity for a long time. For many people in the wo...
This study explores contemporary vernacular dance forms in Newfoundland and Labrador. As a reflecti...
peer-reviewedIn regional step dance traditions, a shared dance idiom may become identified as a regi...
peer-reviewedWithin our modern twenty-first century world we may take the time to ask ourselves to ...
Abstract: This article briefly outlines the migration of percussive step dancing to Cape Breton Isla...
This article briefly outlines the migration of percussive step dancing to Cape Breton Island from th...
This thesis is an ethnography of folk dance in Newfoundland based on a holistic view of dance behavi...
peer-reviewedCape Breton step dancing is the regional label, given to the vernacular form of percus...
peer-reviewedPlease see http://hdl.handle.net/10344/6353 for an earlier conference version of this p...
Kristin Harris Walsh is a dancer and dance scholar based in St. John's. She holds a PhD in Folklore ...
In this dissertation, I examine current practices of modern competitive Irish step dance and feis mu...
Newfoundland has been described as “the most Irish place outside of Ireland” (McGinn 2000, 8). As a ...
In this article, based on ethnographic research conducted at Mi’kmaw powwows throughout Atlantic Can...
non-peer reviewedSince about 1990 Cape Breton musicians and step dancers have been invited to Scotla...
In the past few decades, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has been increasingly viewed as inherently I...
In Ireland, Irish step dance has been a national identity for a long time. For many people in the wo...
This study explores contemporary vernacular dance forms in Newfoundland and Labrador. As a reflecti...
peer-reviewedIn regional step dance traditions, a shared dance idiom may become identified as a regi...
peer-reviewedWithin our modern twenty-first century world we may take the time to ask ourselves to ...
Abstract: This article briefly outlines the migration of percussive step dancing to Cape Breton Isla...
This article briefly outlines the migration of percussive step dancing to Cape Breton Island from th...
This thesis is an ethnography of folk dance in Newfoundland based on a holistic view of dance behavi...
peer-reviewedCape Breton step dancing is the regional label, given to the vernacular form of percus...
peer-reviewedPlease see http://hdl.handle.net/10344/6353 for an earlier conference version of this p...
Kristin Harris Walsh is a dancer and dance scholar based in St. John's. She holds a PhD in Folklore ...
In this dissertation, I examine current practices of modern competitive Irish step dance and feis mu...
Newfoundland has been described as “the most Irish place outside of Ireland” (McGinn 2000, 8). As a ...
In this article, based on ethnographic research conducted at Mi’kmaw powwows throughout Atlantic Can...
non-peer reviewedSince about 1990 Cape Breton musicians and step dancers have been invited to Scotla...
In the past few decades, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has been increasingly viewed as inherently I...
In Ireland, Irish step dance has been a national identity for a long time. For many people in the wo...