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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

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Companies A - H	I - P>>

Acrobat	Acrobat
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer	Under the Skin
Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly	The Art of Fugue
Ballet Ireland	Alice
	The Nutcracker
	Ballet Fireworks
Jerome Bel	Jerome Bel
Nick Bryson	Bog Feature
Rosemay Butcher	Scan
Charles Linehan Dance Company	Happy Days and New Quartet
	Grand Junction (performed by Dance Theatre of Ireland)
Cie Laroque	Tropea
Cie Willi Dorner	three seconds, no credits
Ciotóg	How did we get Here?
Ella Clarke	Shutter
Coisceim Dance Theatre	Knots
	The Nutcracker
	Chamber Made - Room 409
	Hanging on by a Thread
	Mermaids
	Out of Harms Way
Core Dance Company	Nova
Cork City Ballet	Ballet Spectacular
Finola Cronin	The Murder Ballads
Daghdha Dance Company	Sediments of an Ordinary Mind (2003)
	Sediments of an Ordinary Mind (2007)
	Once beneath the Skin
	The Yellow Room
	Reverse Psychology
	Limerick Trilogy
Daksha Sheth Dance Company	Sarpagati
Dance Theatre of Ireland	Watermark
	Between You & Me
	As A Matter Of Fact
	Exodus and Grand Junction
DCM	Serial Paradise
Derevo	Islands In The Stream
Déjà Donné	In Bella Copia
Dislocate	Risk Reduction
Diversions	Practice Paradise, Oakfield Ridge, Between
	Psycho-delia and Monolith
Earthfall	At Swim Two Boys
	I Can't Stand Up
Echo Echo	Under Observation, Tenderised
Eeeugh!topia	Eeeugh!topia
El Descueve	Hermosura
Fabulous Beast	Giselle
	Flowerbed
Vania Gala	Automatic ID (AID)
Yasmeen Godder	Sudden Birds
half angel	Spinstern
	The Secret Project
Deborah Hay	The Ridge
Wolfgang Hoffman and Sven Till	Pandora 88

	I - P >>

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)

Traces
Les 7 doigts de la main/The 7 Fingers

"Circus has left the tent, acquired the word "new" and now slaps it out on stage with more traditional theatrical forms. Some shows have retained the virtuosity and immediacy of the ring and metamorphosed into riveting theatrical experiences. Traces isn't one of them."

(The Irish Times)