From Kerry to Cork: The Dance captures the magic of Michael Keegan-Dolan
A scene from The Dance, about Michael Keegan-Dolan's show, Mám, at Cork International Film Festival.
It is a clear and bright autumn morning after a stormy night when Michael Keegan-Dolan speaks down the phone from the Dingle peninsula in Kerry, a place the choreographer has called home for the past few years. “It can be beautiful and it can be really savage as well. I’m not complaining, I am up for both,” he laughs.
Beautiful and savage would be an apt description of Keegan-Dolan’s acclaimed dance piece Mám, which is steeped in the landscape and lore of west Kerry, where it came together over a two-month period. It is a process beautifully captured by Cork filmmaker Pat Collins in The Dance, which is the Documentary Gala selection at this year’s Cork International Film Festival.
