Till, Karen E. (2021) Troubling national commemoration in Dublin, London and Liverpool: ANU Production and CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s These Rooms. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 8 (2). pp. 267-289. ISSN 2050-9790

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The cultural production These Rooms challenged traditional nationalistic commemorations of war and rebellion during the ‘Decade of the Centenaries’. Created by the Dublin-based ANU Productions and CoisCéim Dance Theatre, and funded by the Irish and UK governments, this series of theatre/dance performances, installations and public outreach projects in unconventional urban venues ran from 2016 to 2019 in Dublin, London and Liverpool, cities with mixed British and Irish populations. Fragmentary, embodied stories about the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin communicated the perspectives of working-class Irish civilian women and confused young British soldiers through intimate domestic encounters that productively disrupted heroic narratives. Audiences were instead invited to create temporary communities of encounter and ‘unlearn’ dominant concepts supporting colonial, imperial and national spaces–times. As a critical agonistic artistic intervention, These Rooms offered more inclusive ‘potential histories’ and forms of belonging across political, social and temporal borders during the geopolitically uncertain times associated with Brexit.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Till, K.E. 2021, "Troubling national commemoration in Dublin, London and Liverpool: ANU Production and CoisCéim Dance Theatre's These Rooms", Journal of urban cultural studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 267-289.
Keywords:	agonistic art; potential history; memory-work; performing arts; everyday urban settings; temporary communities; national commemoration;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
Item ID:	17802
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00045_1
Depositing User:	Dr. Karen Till
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2023 11:20
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
Publisher:	Intellect
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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