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Michael Seaver

writings on dance and culture

Most recent writings :

Review of Next to Skin

One year at Dancehouse

Honeymooning in Panama

The Generation Game

Review of Slow Down

Keeping the Celtic Tiger feisty


Out of Harms Way and Hanging on by a Thread Coisceim Dance Theatre	Spring 2007

Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland Deirdre Mulrooney	Summer 2006

Reviews by Publication

The Irish Times
Ballet Tanz
Dance Europe
Irish Theatre Magazine

Reviews by companies

Irish contemporary dance
European contemporary dance
American contemporary dance
Irish ballet
International ballet
Others

Reviews by date

2007 2006
2005 2004
2003 2002
2001 2000
before 1999

Did I make you up?
"Although the lengthy programme notes describe creative points of departure, the place of arrival in Did I Make You Up? is a simple reflection on love that has a sense of timelessness. Contemporary and old-fashioned speak with equal voice as three lonely individuals bask in the glow of idealised love."

(The Irish Times)

James son of James
"Michael Keegan Dolan's self-styled midlands trilogy has come full cycle and returned to the territory of its first instalment, Giselle. Not only is the show back within the focussed confines of the Samuel Beckett Theatre's square stage after the sprawling, emotionally barren peat hills of The Bull, but there is also a return to the moral territory of good versus evil."

(www.irishtheatremagazine.com)