Michael Keegan-Dolan / Teaċ Daṁsa How to be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons
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About the show
A story of innocence and experience, sexuality and shame, humiliation and defiance, identity and nationality, endings and ancestry. Written and choreographed by Michael Keegan-Dolan and directed by life-time collaborators, dancer Rachel Poirier and lighting designer, Adam Silverman. How To Be A Dancer In Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons presents the accidental beauty and sometimes ridiculous banality of lives lived and lives imagined.
About Teaċ Daṁsa
Teaċ Daṁsa is a dance-theatre company founded by Michael Keegan-Dolan in 2016, rising from the ashes of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre. Now based in the West Kerry Gaeltacht, the company works from a repurposed factory beneath Mount Brandon.
Teaċ Daṁsa creates bold, imaginative work rooted in place, language, and the shared experience of performers and audiences. Its productions have toured globally – from Paris to Seoul, Sydney to Letterkenny – and have received multiple awards, including Irish Times Theatre Awards, Olivier nominations, and a New York Bessie.
At its heart, Teaċ Daṁsa is a home for artists: a space where truth, creativity, and connection can flourish. Where dance meets music, myth, and meaning.
Recent works include Swan Lake / Loch na hEala (2016), MÁM (2019), How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons (2022), and Nobodaddy (2024).
Artistic Team & Credits
Writer Michael Keegan-Dolan
Choreography and Performance Michael Keegan-Dolan and Rachel Poirier
Directors Rachel Poirier and Adam Silverman
Set and Costume Designer Hyemi Shin
Lighting Designer Adam Silverman
Sound Designer Sandra Ní Mathúna
Lighting Technician Archer Bradshaw
Production Managers Danny Hones and Mikee Lonergan
Company Stage Manager Iain Synnott
Costume Manager Amanda Donovan
Producer Dawn Prentice
Line Producer Fiona Morgan
Co-Producers
In 2022, Teaċ Daṁsa opened How To Be A Dancer In Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons, a co-production with the Gate Theatre, at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
The piece has since toured nationally and internationally and was shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award in 2024.
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