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.
Chloey Turner was just a little girl glued to her TV set when she first saw Riverdance on a 1994 broadcast. Today, the dancer counts herself lucky that 17 years later the show is still touring and attracting audiences the world over.
To date we have danced over 100 shows in 53 cities and 31 states in the United States. We are pleased to continue to bring our popular performance to the people of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. We welcome two more consecutive weeks in Calgary and Edmonton very soon.
October 2010, the worlds of figure skating and Irish dancing collided like never before. Only it was much more of a harmonious collaboration than a collision.
” It’s a dream come true” for Liam Ayres as he finally performs with Riverdance in his home town of Melbourne. Liam originally from Box Hill Melbourne and now living in Hawthorn Melbourne will perform Riverdance lead during the show’s run at Regent Theatre, Melbourne from March 30 to April 10, 2011.
On March 18th, one little girl’s dream to meet her Riverdance idols came true as she met with some of Riverdance’s star performers at the premiere of their Sydney Farewell Tour.