GERMANY: AMERICAN IRISH STEP DANCER MICHAEL FLATLEY PREMIERES NEW SHOW "FEET OF FLAMES"

Record ID: 388995

  • Title: GERMANY: AMERICAN IRISH STEP DANCER MICHAEL FLATLEY PREMIERES NEW SHOW "FEET OF FLAMES"
  • Date: 16th March 2000
  • Summary: (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) FLATLEY SAYING "It's hard to say, I just know that as soon as we hit the United States, everything blew up. We hit the Oscars one day and the next thing I knew, we were on covers everywhere, we were platinum on our videos, the world took to us and certainly in America, we were packing out 20,000 seaters, night after night after
  • Embargoed: 31st March 2000 13:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVAEF1N62FQIHS5PHWLMM2QJIGA8
  • Story Text: Irish step dancer Michael Flatley, known as The Lord of Dance, has presented his European premiere of his new stage-show "Feet of The Flames" in Cologne.
    World record-breaking dance supremo Michael Flatley has begun his eagerly awaited return to the world stage with the first dates of his stunning new dance production.The initial leg of his 2000 World Tour will see the toe-tapping legend take the helm once again as he performs across Europe in spectacular style.
    Acclaimed as the dance extravaganza for this Millennium, 'Fleet of Flames 2000 World Tour', is the biggest dance show ever staged.Fifty dancers will join Flatley, the former Lord of the Dance star, as he dons his dancing shoes to perform for two hours across a breathtaking set.
    More that one million fans in five countries will be thrilled during the first one hundred dates of the European leg of the world tour which has kicked off in Cologne, Germany.
    Flatley's new show is a "synthesis of dance, folklore and spectacular stage effects and presents a new step dance world record," according to the organisers.
    Michael Flatley and his crew of fifty male and female dancers took an eighteen-month break to prepare for the new show.
    Since the inaugural performance in Dublin three years ago, Michael's internationally renowned Lord of the Dance production has become a worldwide phenomenon.
    There are currently four Lord of the Dance troupes, one permanently touring the UK, another touring the US, one resident in Las Vegas and a fourth at Disney World in Florida.
    The new 'Feet of Flames' production marks Flatley's first appearance back on the boards since his ground breaking one-off 'Feet of Flames' performance in London's Hyde Park during the summer of 1998.
    Apart from his staggering success with his 'Riverdance' and 'Lord of the Dance' shows Flatley can also lay claim to a unique title - as the fastest dancer on Earth - a position confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records with his record of THIRTY-FIVE separate taps in one second.
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