On a bleak hill in the Irish midlands, Michael Keegan-Dolan, one of the most talented choreographers ever to emerge from Ireland, has spent the past six months building a house with his bare hands. The skeleton of the structure is a derelict two-room schoolhouse. "It hadn't been used since 1963," he says. "And even in '63, they only had two lightbulbs, no water, no toilet. So we knocked it down, just to the stone walls. We had to break it down so we could start again."

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Image: "Some people like looking at icebergs, some people like looking at lakes," the choreo- grapher says defensively. "I like looking at the Irish midlands." On a bleak hill in the Irish midlands, Michael Keegan-Dolan, one of the most talented choreographers ever to emerge from Ireland, has spent the past six months building a house with his bare hands. The skeleton of the structure is a derelict two-room schoolhouse. "It hadn't been used since 1963," he says. "And even in '63, they only had two lightbulbs, no water, no toilet. So we knocked it down, just to the stone walls. We had to break it down so we could start again."

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Image: "Some people like looking at icebergs, some people like looking at lakes," the choreo- grapher says defensively. "I like looking at the Irish midlands."