Irish director Michael Keegan-Dolan will bring his adaptation of Swan Lake to the Grand Theatre this week, with performances on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March 2018, at 20:00.
Co-produced by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sadler’s Wells London, Colours International Dance Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Dublin Theatre Festival & Les Théâtres de la Ville Luxembourg.
Features ten performers and three musicians.
Audiences the world over believe they know Swan Lake, but not like this. From the imagination of one of Europe’s foremost dance and theatremakers, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist, Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes a bold, yet magical, new adaptation of one of the most famous ballets in the world. Featuring beautiful dancing and powerful imagery, Swan Lake is accompanied by a captivating score of traditional Irish-Nordic folk music, played live on stage by the trio Slow Moving Clouds. In this reimagined Swan Lake, Keegan-Dolan uses the traditional story as its basis, but creates a world of magical realism. With ten performers and three musicians, Keegan-Dolan digs deeply into the psyche of the modern Irish soul and touches on many of the issues that Irish society is trying to arise from. A critical success at the Dublin Theatre Festival and at Sadler’s Wells, winner for best production at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017, this Swan Lake is rooted in a place where ancient Irish mythology and modern Ireland meet.
Michael Keegan-Dolan’s magical adaptation of Swan Lake has won the Irish Times Best Production Award (2016) and has recently received the coveted UK National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography.
Michael Keegan-Dolan founded Teaċ Daṁsa in 2016 as a means to forge a deeper connection with his cultural roots, native traditions, language and the rich musical heritage of Ireland. Teaċ Daṁsa, ‘House of the Dance’ in Classical Irish, reflects Michael’s ongoing creative journey, further fusing his work to the place from which it originates. This is exemplified in its first production, Swan Lake / Loch na hEala.
