Dancer Michael Keegan-Dolan: ‘I do everything slightly backwards’
Michael Keegan-Dolan has created 1975/Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig around The Bothy Band’s astonishing first album, which has stuck in his mind since he was six
Michael Keegan-Dolan
Nobodaddy: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new show delves into life, death, connection and loss in surprising, unpredictable ways
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Sam Amidon’s music serves as a lifeline through the changing tableaux of a sometimes hard-to-grasp production
Motion and emotion: Watching as Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy takes shape at Teach Damhsa
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons review: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s bewitching dance theatre
Dublin Theatre Festival: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s at times bewildering show builds slowly into something very special
Michael Keegan-Dolan: Back on the boards
The internationally acclaimed Kerry-based choreographer returns to the stage after 20 years with his new show for Dublin Theatre Festival
The Dance: Fascinating close-up portrait of a creative process
Pat Collins’s documentary captures the development of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Mám
Donal Dineen: On My Culture Radar
The presenter on Kevin Barry’s magnificence, Eamonn Doyle’s photography, and his admiration of Jessie Buckley
Philip King: On My Culture Radar
The Other Voices founder on podcast The Brexit Club and the importance of Lankum
Mám review: Stirring, sensuous showcase of the physical form
Dublin Theatre Festival: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new dance production is 90 minutes of ritualised ecstasy
Session: ‘Four men in a space playing with music and dance’s relationship’
A new collaboration by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and ex-Riverdancer Colin Dunne
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes
The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Maser: ‘Social media is getting samey-samey’
The street artist on his admiration for Helen Steele, Damien Dempsey and Greek islands
‘It takes nine months to make a baby, and nine months to recover’
In conversation: James Earley, artist, and Nollaig Healy, festival director
Tracy Ryan: On My Culture Radar
The theatre director on returning to the source for ‘Trainspotting’ and why Maxine Peake is an inspiration
Theatre of the week: Swan Lake reimagined and the Gregory deal remembered
Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week
Irish adaption of ‘Swan Lake’ among highlights of Clonmel Junction Festival
Music and theatre lovers well catered for with eclectic mix at popular Tipperary event
Swan Lake makes its theatrical return at Clonmel Junction Festival
The dance show was one of the theatrical highlights of 2016
Jean Butler: ‘It’s very exposing for both of us’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
Voting closes at midnight in the Audience Choice Theatre Award
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards has one public vote category. And now is your last chance to have your say
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Your favourite artwork from 2016
To celebrate the close of the Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks series we asked you to pick your favourite artwork of last year
Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’
Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture
Culture Shock: Sparks fly in ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’ and ‘These Rooms’
Dublin Theatre Festival is staging thrilling blends of dance and drama by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Anu and CoisCéim
Swan Lake review: Humour in the darkness, beauty among the ruin
Dublin Theatre Festival: Mikel Murfi takes multiple roles in Michael Keegan Dolan majestic retelling of the classic story-ballet
How Olwen Fouéré conquered Beckett’s memory challenge
The actor continues her performances of notoriously tricky Irish prose works with Beckett’s Lessness, which comprises 60 sentences apparently chosen at random
Three become one – and dance lovers get a trio of premieres
Three companies – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Dance Company and CoisCéim Dance Theatre – are touring new work together. Is it an act that other arts sectors could or should follow?
Summoning the spirit of the spring
The dancers take centre stage in this Fabulous Beast take on Stravinsky’s work – to terrific effect
Bringing the Irish Beast to bear on a Russian masterpiece
Michael Keegan-Dolan and his dance company Fabulous Beast brought an epic vision to ‘Giselle’. Now he is taking on Stravinsky
The naked truth about dance
In Greek mythology, the gods were depicted nude to show their higher status, but these days little inflames indignation like the sight of the naked human body. For some artists, and dancers in particular, it’s an essential, everyday part of their work
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