Ten very important Irish dancers made their way to the dressing rooms tucked away in the heart of the studio and were soon greeted by the film crew to begin rehearsals and blocking on the set of ‘The Price is Right’. How important we felt when the host Drew Carey jumped up onstage to greet us.
More from Fiona McCabe on tour with Riverdance in California.
This week was very busy for Fiona McCabe and the Riverdance cast! Visits to Soweto, the former house of Nelson and Winnie Mandella, the house of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the famous Sakhumzi Shebeen, the Hector Pieterson Museum, the National Park in Pilanesberg and Sun City – and a Riverdance workshop!
September 25th, 9:00 am, a bus pulls up outside the South Sun Montecasino Hotel. Twenty dancers and crew emerge into the early, South African morning sun and make their way into the hotel.
Hello Johannesburg, Riverdance has returned!
And so all good things come to an end… The Shannon Company has finally drawn to a close as we wrapped up our last weekend of 22 weeks in the lovely city of Seattle, Washington.
Journalism student and former Riverdance lead dancer Carla O’Brien interviews John McColgan, Julian Erskine, Maria Buffini and Padraic Moyles before the Gala Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at the Convention Centre Dublin 19th May 2011, for RTE’s Radio 1 Drivetime.
We are now back in North America and find ourselves in the final week of our 2011 tour. Our Canadian tour through April quickly came and went. We welcomed a full week in three of the twelve cities: Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton and visited the other eight in the remaining two weeks!
A sneaky look behind the scenes of this year’s St Patrick’s Day Flash Mob in Sydney Central Station. The Sneaky Steppers orchestrated over 140 dancers in a spontaneous outbreak of Irish dance.
The crowd is on their feet. On the last beat of the music, our eyes are drawn to a pearly white halo in the middle of the auditorium. The fanfare plays as the Queen makes her way to the stage. An overwhelming emotion ensues and unexpected tears are in my eyes. I look around and my fellow cast members are equally moved
Young Post junior reporters joined four Riverdance performers at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. They took to the stage with the dancers, who taught them a number of dance moves.
Afterwards, they interviewed the performers about being part of the Riverdance phenomenon and they got a glimpse of the show’s costumes and found out how they were made.