How To Be A Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons by Michael Keegan-Dolan

WORLD PREMIERE. A Gate Theatre and Teaċ Daṁsa co-production.

Previews from Saturday, September 24th 2022
Opens Wednesday, September 28th 2022
Runs until Saturday, October 8th 2022

ADVISORY: Recommended for ages 14+. Contains strong language, content of a sexual nature, the use of herbal cigarettes and haze effects.

An ISL-interpreted performance took place at 2.30pm on Saturday, October 1st. 

The performance on Monday, October 3rd was followed by a post-show discussion with Michael Keegan-Dolan, Rachel Roirier and Róisín McBrinn, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre. 

From Ireland in the 1970s to the present day, How to be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons blurs the boundaries between what is lived and what is imagined, between history and destiny, between fact and fiction. This is a powerful coming of age work which is both playful and provocative. Michael Keegan-Dolan performs onstage for the first time in over twenty years, alongside his collaborator Rachel Poirier.

Ce que j’ai fait, ce soir-là
Ce qu’elle a dit, ce soir-là
Réalisant mon espoir
Je me lance vers la gloire, okay
– Psychokiller, D. Byrne, C. Frantz, T. Weymouth

Following the success of MÁM and Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, Teaċ Daṁsa return to the Dublin Theatre Festival with this intimate new co-production with the Gate Theatre.