When Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Keegan-Dolan covered the stage with a flurry of white feathers for his re-imagining of Swan Lake, it earned him a flock of five star reviews and award wins.

The Irish-language word mám describes the pass that connects two sides of a mountain and is the inspiration for his next piece of work.

Bringing together the Irish concertina player Cormac Begley, the classical, contemporary collective, s t a r g a z e and 12 dancers from Keegan-Dolan’s company, Teaċ Daṁsa, MÁM acknowledges how life’s polarities can on occasion come together and find resolution.