Steps of Freedom (2021)
73 min
This wonderfully entertaining dance documentary tells the extraordinary story of how Irish dance developed over centuries from a traditional peasant dance to a form that has taken the world by storm and is enjoyed by tens of millions. The film shows how Irish dance has both been influenced by and influenced the dance of many cultures and how it developed as an expression of resistance.
- Release date
- November 27, 2022
- Country of origin
- Ireland, United States
- Music
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Cast
- Morgan Bullock as Self, also narrator
- Aoife Whelan as Self, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
- Ríonach Uí Ógáin as Self, lecturer in Irish Folklore, University College Dublin
- Kelly Fitzgerald as Self, Head of Irish Folklore & Ethnology, University College Dublin
- DeWitt Fleming Jr. as Self
- Jonathan Skinner as Self, Reader in the Anthropology of Events, University of Surrey
- Leni Sloan as Self
- Mick Moloney as Self
- Brian Seibert as Self, author of 'What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing'
- Steve Cooney as Self
Crew
- Ruán Magan · Director
- Kathriona Devereux · Producer
- Maeve Kenny · Producer
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire · Composer
- Colm Hogan · Cinematographer
- Brian O'Carroll · Cinematographer
- Juangus Dinsmore · Editor