The choreographer-director Michael Keegan-Dolan has a knack for finding drama in loose ends. For Swan Lake, for example, he wondered why, really, our hero was wandering the forest on his birthday. Because the guy was unemployed, the Irishman concluded, and depressed even before his passive-aggressively homicidal mother gifted him with a gun to blow his brains out. At 55, Keegan-Dolan has been running a company—first called Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, then Teaċ Daṁsa (Irish for “House of Dance”)— since he was 30, fomenting a highly anticipated new work every year or so. He bends drama, replete with words, to the more elusive demands of dance. He injects story with myth and song. His latest 12-person work takes on William Blake’s Nobodaddy, a malevolent divinity who loves, Blake writes, “hanging & drawing / & quartering / Every bit as well as war & slaughtering.” Yet NOBODADDY is an ode to peace, a salve. It features the Vermont neo-folksinger Sam Amidon and a gaggle of other singers and musicians as part of the onstage action. —Apollinaire Scherr