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Expo 2020 Dubai: Irish sensation Riverdance to make its World Expo debut
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12/5/2024
Expo 2020 Dubai: Irish sensation Riverdance to make its World Expo debut
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The Riverdance started back in 1994 as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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At that time, Moya Daugherty, our producer and our great, incredible female leader that
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she is, along with her husband John McColgan and our composer Bill Whelan, they were the
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ones who effectively brought what was a seven-minute interval act to the full-scale production
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that we know as Riverdance today.
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It has toured the world for the last 26, 27 years now, and it has had global fame.
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No matter where we go around the world, there seems to be a connection between Riverdance,
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its music and its performers with whatever territory we might be in.
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And we think that that is what is so unique and so special, and the reason why this global
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phenomenon continues to tour the world.
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For the first time in our history, we are now including Middle Eastern performers in
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this show.
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So we have terrific musicians that are going to join this show playing instruments unique
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to this area.
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So that's going to completely transform how we hear Riverdance, and Bill Whelan, who is
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our Grammy Award-winning composer, he's not only excited by that, he's interested to help
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the music evolve even more, if that's even possible, because it is a Grammy Award-winning,
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timeless piece of music, yet we still have people in the organization who are open to
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thinking differently about how we can present it.
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So that's one area as to how Riverdance will be different.
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There's no intermission in this show.
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It's 90 minutes solid straight through, so for the performers, that is an extraordinary
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challenge that they are looking forward to being able to do.
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So this is a version of the show that we have never done before.
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One of the driving forces behind this collaboration between Ireland and the UAE has been her
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Excellency Reem El Hashimi, and it was mainly along with her vision and her perseverance
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and drive, she wanted to be able to ensure that we could share our culture and that we
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could learn from other cultures, and that's where the masterclasses would have come from.
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We've done them in other countries, but never here, and it became a pivotal part in having
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Riverdance at Expo.
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So we're excited to have around 45, somewhere between 45 and 50 masterclasses across the
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various different district stages and in Dubai, where we are going to teach people
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to dance.
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Visitors can catch it on the Jubilee Park stage from November 3rd to November 27th,
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and you can find all the information on expo.com.
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