Video: Learn to Dance Like the Irish with a Lesson from RIVERDANCE 30

Five, six, seven, eight

One, two, three, two, two, three, and four, five, six. I think I'm going to join the line here

Nice, really good. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World, celebrating its 30th anniversary

River Dance 30, the new generation, comes to Radio City Music Hall for five performances only

beginning on March 28th. And we're here in the hall to meet the company and learn some of the steps from the global phenomenon

Well, first of all, you're about to return to Radio City. How excited are you

Oh, my God. This is a dream come true. I mean, the last time we were here was 2020

COVID shut us down. But we're back to finish what we started. And this is going to be extraordinary

Okay, so what is it like living in the world of River Dance? It's a dream

Every day is different because it's live theater. Every audience is different. We get to travel the world alongside your friends

and for us alongside family. It's a wonderful experience and it doesn't feel like a job

It feels like a dream every single night. I agree with everything anime just said

It's an absolute dream. We're so lucky because we're siblings. We get to do this live out our dream with each other with family So we get to travel the world living at our dream doing what we love I mean for all of these artists it the pinnacle of their career to get to perform in New York City on Radio City Music Hall

I mean, you just dream of that as a child. And to be here, to get to do that is, there's no words

There's no words. You know, this is the new generation. When did you start with River Dance

I started as the first generation. So I would have started in 1996

Seven, not long after the show first started. To be honest, which the very first time I ever saw this show

was here in Radio City Music Hall. And I sat in one of those red velvet seats in that theater

and my whole life changed. Right before my eyes, before a step was ever danced

The music, the direction of how the show was created, that dry eyes, the entire feeling of it made me go

this is what I want to do with the rest of my life. And from that moment on, I found out how to audition

join the show, and here I am still 27, 28 years later

So it's extraordinary. You know, this is a new generation, and this is the 30th anniversary

We all fell in love with it 30 years ago. Now, it's generation, epigeneration

What is it about River Dance that people fall in love with? I think it's a lot of things

Riverdance at its core, you know, is a story. And it involves a lot of emotion human emotion love loss and you know passion immigration There so many different storylines that people can connect with And then also the beautiful music composed by Bill Wheeling

and the dancers and the contrast of the dancers on stage, the tap dancers, the flamenco

the Irish dancers, the Eastern European folk dancers. There's so many different cultures

and different elements happening on stage and that is something that everybody can connect with

Yeah, everything, that anime just said, it really touches the hearts of people and I think

once it touches your heart, it's really tough to let it go. You just want to keep

coming back or you want to, you tell somebody about it and they want to experience it

and then hopefully they'll keep coming back as well to the show. So we're so grateful that it

survived this long and that it's got a great life. Well, I think it

resonates differently with everybody, but it resonates with everybody, right? So it's the music is just

extraordinary. It's timeless. It's Grammy award wing. And then you put those artists on

stage that are at the top of their game, the best of what they do in the world, it's hard

not to be in awe of it. And of course, then there's the people off the stage that really

contribute to all of this. It's their work on the stage as well, from lighting designers to the

stage hands you name it it is one great big team that brings something like this together And let me tell you if you think you seen Riverdance before you have never seen it like this So we going to start with a right foot stamp We going to go stamp

Stamp. And then we're going to go point. Point. Point. Point. And then we're going to do a cut

Hop cut. All the way up here. That's it. And then go point on the right

and point on the left, and point, and cut. And then the same thing again on the left foot

Point. Point. Point. point cut this is the iconic Riverland step that we all do

once we're in the line okay this is a simplified version but we can do this one together

if that's okay okay then we can do the hop step step hop that other one the one I was doing this way

you want to show us what you need one two three yeah oh very good

this is the one I know and we call this what these are one two three

that's what we call them so we go on one two three two three I have that right

yeah you got here let's here let's hear let's do this This one here. Here we go. Ready? You call it

Five, six, seven, eight. One, two, two, two, three, three, and four, five, six

I think I'm going to join the line here. Nice, really good. Okay, right, thank you

That was so good. So everybody, come and join us at Radio City Music Hall beginning on March 28th for five performances only River Dance 30, the New Generation

We'll see you then