The British Embassy, will host a celebration of the Queen’s state visit to Ireland in Dublin’s Convention Centre. The event will be attended by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin, with some 2,000 invited guests from across Ireland involved in the business, sporting, entertainment, politics and charity sectors.
“The Queen’s visit to Ireland is forward looking and positive and it is a great honour to be involved.”
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.
Riverdance is delighted announce our cast for our performance on Thursday 19th in the Conference Centre in Dublin’s Docklands in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The Chieftians, Westlife and Mary Byrne will be among the headline acts with Riverdance to play for the invited 2,000 guests to celebrate Ireland’s links with Britain.
The packed opening night of the Saskatoon run of Riverdance proved the city still has a hearty appetite for Irish step-dancing — an athletic, energetic dance style that first captured global attention 17 years ago.
The biggest success of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest was none of the songs, but the interval act Riverdance
Since its premiere in 1995, “Riverdance” has become an international phenomenon of Irish rhythm and dance. In the 16 years since then, the show has been performed more than 10,000 times for more than 22 million people.