International Irish-dancing sensation “Riverdance” turns 25 this year — but its birthday tour will have to wait. In the meantime, “Riverdance” is celebrating generations of immigration and culture — inside the cast and out.
. With parades canceled, and bars shut down in some cities, it will be a very different St. Patrick's Day this year.
John McColgan was one of the troika of Irish creatives who took a seven-minute dance segment on 1994's Eurovision song contest, and turned it into a two hour celebration of Irish and other international dance forms, that has been a global phenomenon. As a matter of fact, the company's associate director, Padraic Moyles, had emigrated from Dublin to the Bronx and was studying Irish dance when he saw the show at Radio City Music Hall as a teen.
So, at 17, he joined the company and worked his way up from the chorus to lead dancer. He performed with"I've been fortunate enough not only to tour the world, but have my wife with me, because we met in, to marry and then to have children. So, our kids are two of 112began as an act in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Above,"Firedance" from the 25th anniversary production.
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