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What began as a short interval show over 15 years ago turned out to be one of Ireland’s biggest contributions to world music. Riverdance, a spectacular show featuring Irish folk stepdancing, has been performed around the world and remains well-loved by dance and music lovers. Now preparing for its final tour, the show is celebrating over a decade and a half of good music, impressive dancing, and a lasting tribute to Irish culture and history.
Riverdance shows revolve around stepdancing, a traditional dance featuring rapid steps and leg movements while the rest of the body hardly moves. It is essentially the history of Ireland loosely told in dance, from prehistory to the great migration to North America. It was first shown in 1994 during an interval at the Eurovision Song Contest, then hosted by Ireland. It was surprisingly well received, even earning a standing ovation, and was later named the most famous interval act in Eurovision’s 50-year history. To this day, the performance is still considered an important moment in Irish culture.
The dance itself originated from a baroque-inspired music suite called Timedance, which was adopted by Donal Lunny and Bill Whelan from the folk bank Planxty. Lunny and Whelan wrote the music and added a section of rock rhythms, with drums, bass, and a four-piece horn. They performed the piece, with a ballet dance interpretation, during a seven-minute interval at Eurovision. The band later released it as a single. Whelan said in a band biography that the name Riverdance was meant to connect to Timedance, as a tribute to the music that inspired it.
The first full-length Riverdance show was held in its native Dublin, at the Point Theatre in 1995. It was a critical and financial success, and ran for five weeks before launching on a European tour. Riverdance has since been performed not just in Europe but also in New York, where it ran for a year in 2000 at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre. To date, more than 1,500 Irish dancers have joined Riverdance in its over 10,000 performances.
Riverdance is currently on its last world tour, after being performed around the world for over 15 years. Stops are scheduled throughout the UK, Europe, and the US. The final stop is fittingly scheduled at Dublin’s Point Theatre, where it launched on its very first tour. Notable cast members include dancers Maria Buffini, Joe Moriarty, Kelly Isaac, Jason E. Bernard, Rocio Montoya, and percussionist Mark Alfred.
U.S. performances will start in January 2011, kicking off at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. Other stops include the Des Moines Civic Center, Orpheum Center, and Adler Theater in Iowa; the Milwaukee Theatre in Wisconsin; the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois; the Stranahan Theatre and Palace Theatre Columbus in Ohio; the Sovereign Performing Arts Center in Reading, Pennsylvania; the TD Bank Arts Centre in Sewell, New Jerseyl the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, Colorado; the Cheyenne Civic Center in Wyoming, the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno; the Keller Auditorium in Portland; and the Paramount Theatre in Seattle.