This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture explores Irish-German connections through dancein choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture since the 1920s.

Chapter One: Modernism, Migration, and Irish-German Connections in the 1930s and 1940s: The Impact of Modern Physics and Dance on IrelandGisela HolfterChapter Two: Erina Brady: Mary Wigman's Irish Disciple?Deirdre MulrooneyChapter Three: Duality of Cultural Influences as a Source of Insight and Inspiration: The Collaboration between Aloys Fleischmann and Joan Moriarty 19471992Ruth FleischmannChapter Four: Irish Dance Documentation for the Archive: A Personal Reflection on Irish-German Connections and Intellectual InheritancesCatherine E. FoleyChapter Five: "Somewhere Between Remembering and Forgetting": An Examination of the Choreographic Process Inspired by the Poem "The Man Made of Rain" by Brendan KennellyMarguerite DonlonChapter Six: Creating Tanztheater: Finding Ireland with Pina?Finola CroninChapter Seven: Irish Modernism and the History and Aesthetics of DanceSusan JonesChapter Eight: Rhythm and Colour: The Legacy of Dance in 1930s Joyce and BeckettSiobhán PurcellChapter Nine: Yeats's Transgressive DancersMargaret Mills HarperChapter Ten: "I as a Text," I as a Dance: On the Relationship of Contemporary Dance and Contemporary Poetry with Reference to Anne Juren, Martina Hefter, Monika Rinck, and Philipp GehmacherLucia RuprechtChapter Eleven: Dancing between Transgression and the Carnivalesque after 1945/1989: Johannes Bobrowski and Katja PetrowskajaSabine EggerChapter Twelve: Dance and the Postmodern Subject in "Libidoökonomie" and "Der Kranich auf dem Kiesel in der Pfütze" by Feridun ZaimogluJoseph TwistChapter Thirteen: "Alive. Changing. New": Impulses of the Jaques-Dalcroze Dance Institute on the Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der RoheTanja Poppelreuter and Jan Frohburg