DUBLIN dancer Michael Keegan Dolan, who first went to England with an Arts Council bursary to study at the Central Ballet School, is now working for Sir Peter Hall at the National Theatre in London, choreographing for the September production of Oedipus Rex, writes Carolyn Swift. No doubt he got the job on the strength of the acclaim he received for his choreographing of the ballet sequences in the opera Ariodante at the Coliseum.

In May The Guardian wrote: "For this revival Michael Keegan Dolan has produced wholly new and important choreography, which supplements Alden's original vision with raw power, as well as making sense of the work's otherwise problematic dance episodes", while The Times declared that: "Michael Keegan Dolan's choreography is all gain, from the celebratory ballet at the end of the first act . . . to the hair raising close of the second." What a shame that we no longer have an Irish ballet company for which he could choreograph!