Swan Lake/Loch na hEala – thrillingly wild and free

Sadler’s Wells, London
Michael Keegan-Dolan has moved Swan Lake to the middle of Ireland and made it a thing of wonderThere are so many new versions of Swan Lake, and almost all of them are unendurable; it’s a work that strongly resists reinvention. But Michael Keegan-Dolan, who has a rare gift for transforming old ballets into new, has taken the 19th-century story and hammered it into a thing of wonder. Like much of his back-catalogue – Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, The Bull, The