Michael Keegan-Dolan has choreographed many critically acclaimed productions in the opera world, including the 2004 production of Faust, directed by Sir David McVicar at the Royal Opera House. This production toured extensively, including to Sydney, Tokyo and Monte Carlo. He also choreographed a new production of The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky at La Monnaie in Brussels, directed by Canadian, Robert Lepage in 2007.

 He founded his own company, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in 1997 and rose to acclaim as its artistic director creating three Olivier Award-nominated productions: Giselle (2003), The Bull (2005), and The Rite of Spring (2009). 

In 2004, Giselle won an Irish Times Theatre Award and The Bull received a UK Critic’s Circle National Dance Award in 2008.

Rian, created in 2011, won a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award) in 2013 for Best Production.

 In 2012 he directed and choreographed a new production of Handel’s Julius Caesar at the London Coliseum, for English National Opera.  In 2015 he created an original piece, The Big Noise, for the GoteborgOperans DansKompani working closely with celebrated Nordic Folk Musician, Ale Moller.

As Guest Artistic Director of the National Youth Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells London for the 2015 - 2016 season, Michael created In-Nocentes.

In March 2017, he devised a new work to Dvorak’s 8th Symphony for the Dance Company at the Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich.

Michael Keegan-Dolan founded his new company Teaċ Daṁsa in 2016.

Its first production, Swan Lake / Loch na hEala, won the Irish Times Theatre Award 2017 for Best New Production and the UK Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Production 2018. The production toured to five continents, including to venues like Sadlers Wells in London, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Sydney Opera House, the Luminato Festival in Toronto and the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington.

His next show MÁM was created in 2019 for the Dublin Theatre Festival. It was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Production in 2020 as well as two UK Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in 2021. It has toured to Sadlers Wells, the New Zealand Festival of the Arts, the Perth Festival, the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the Internationale Maifestspiele at the Hessische Staatstheater in Wiesbaden and to the Teatro Malibran in Venice as part of the Venice Biennale.