{"id":67414,"date":"2025-09-23T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=67414"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:21:45","slug":"a-dance-of-two-intimacy-and-irony-in-keegan-dolan-latest-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/a-dance-of-two-intimacy-and-irony-in-keegan-dolan-latest-work\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dance of Two: Intimacy and Irony in Keegan-Dolan&#8217;s Latest Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">By Anna M HOLMES<\/p>\n<p>When we enter a theatre it is with expectations. Mine were informed by two previous works I have seen by this company in the past two years: <em>M\u00e1m<\/em> and <em>Nobdodaddy<\/em>. <em>How To Be A Dancer In Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons<\/em> sits between these two pieces, in terms of when it was created, but this short run was its UK premiere.<\/p>\n<p>When thinking of Keegan-Dolan\u2019s work, it is of being overwhelmed by the combined power of movement and music exploding from the stage: free-flowing contemporary dance defying gravity; sound &#8211; contemporary and Irish-traditional &#8211; emanating from musicians. The whole mix and mash of them contributing to the jamboree. <em>M\u00e1m<\/em> and <em>Nobdodaddy<\/em> were presented at Sadler\u2019s Wells. This production was at Sadler\u2019s Wells East. It is a new, more intimate theatre, with seating for 570, but has a stage the same size as it\u2019s Islington parent theatre. 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