"CRY OF THE CELTS" "ERIN THE GODDESS" "CELTIC DREAM" "THE WARRIORS" "GYPSY" "STRINGS OF FIRE" "BREAKOUT" "WARLORDS" "ERIN THE GODDESS" "THE LORD OF THE DANCE" "DANGEROUS GAME" "HELL'S KITCHEN" "FIERY NIGHTS" "THE LAMENT" "SIAMSA" "SHE MOVES THROUGH THE FAIR" "STOLEN KISS" "NIGHTMARE" "THE DUEL" "VICTORY" "PLANET IRELAND" "One, two, three...." "This idea has been on my head for... more years, I would say" "I didn't really start focusing not until I really started dancing in the Iast show" "And just when I was out there" "I start realizing that I was dying to do something new" "I was dying to try different things" "I was dying to go further with the whole thing" "And as a result, everynight I started hounding in on something new sequences that put together I for this show" "And I never dreamed that I break off with that other show but faith went to hand that's why we get the chance to do this and now we have all these people here" "I don't pick and choose from other dance forms" "What I do is..." "What I do is go inside for whatever...." "Whatever I'm trying to create comes out... comes from inside" "The trick here and probably the biggest... the hardest task is to constantly create something completely new that's not something that you'II see on television it with the modern dance, accompany with the Jazz accompany with the flamenco, accompany with the tap, accompany... you won't see this stuff anywhere else in the world" "'cause it doesn't come from anywhere else in the world where create it here, we create it on our own the first rehearsal I saw and they had put together about" "3 of the numbers before I've got here" "I was just in tears, my spine was tingling" "I've never seen anything like it everything was bound together so perfectly such a perfect meeting of music and dance emotion and feeling great great beauty and passion" "I thought this is just the most exciting dancing that I've ever seen" "there are so few people to do this they've search far and wide to find this Irish dancers" "It wasn't the one step came through the audition and find colors because they were so eager and they were willing to try all these new things and willing to go to the next level money wasn't important to them" "hours and the day weren't important to them these girls finish here and they were exhausted they were high spirited group and that's not too difficult they are great to work with they know because they have work so hard in the dancing" "like most of them were champions were very high placed so all through the dancing they had to work hard and there is a new thing don't forget no one has ever tried this before nobody has ever done a show like this" "with the different types of tap sign and different kinds of steps everything they're doing is accelerated it's taken to the tenth degree the injury rate is very high because to keep the position it's constant, constant, constant drilling" "I wanted people that were honest about their work and genuinely enthusiastic but I also wanted people that could think for themselves the whole idea here is to stimulate the younger minds" "I show them the work that I want them to do" "I teach them the steps, I choreograph the pieces" "I direct them with what they do and after that, it's up to them to strengthen themselves and to go on further when I'm done they should be able to do twice as far" "You can't prevent or stop injuries completely the strain on their leg..." "I mean the only time that I've experience something like this was really working with.... ballet companies we do a very strict session on warming up, stretching out..." "I don't think there is a troupe in the world that works harder" "this is the only dance form the world but I know I prove we dance percussiveIy to the music we dance exactly to the music we don't improvise around the music we don't studious little penance when we go off we come right back" "so it's no different for us then watching at Price Fighter when he Iance punch one, two, three, four the crowd wants to such an enormous row the crowd would get so excited, you know they are with him everyway" "from that incessant sound of the feet and the way they use the dance" "with those driving beat into the floor it's like it's telling a story it's like it lives yourself" "it works so much in sexual energy and chemistry between the masculine dancers and the female dancers their energy is so powerful and I've created it is in a way that they are so dramatically different that each one is taken so far" "when they come together the light and the dark shade has portrays the energies as the opposites" "when they finally come together in the end of the first half and they dance together for the first time, really it was an extraordinary moment" "one of the greatest moments so far was the finishing of the number Lord of the dance itself when that line comes together and that was a big height for me, it's a huge thing the best is when they've come out, when we have completed" "and choreograph the piece and they have come out, and performed it" "there has to be a central focus there's times when I need to be really hard and really tough" "I'm sorry." "That's not good enough" "Come on, everybody." "This is front stage, if you do this, what do you think?" "the trick here is to realize that no matter what you do everyday is gonna be more difficult than the one before if you're use to the constant change if you're use to the constant problems if you just accept that from the beginning" "then you're gonna get through it if you don't, you'II never gonna get anywhere" "michael is being pulled in every kind of direction he's the creator of the show he's producing the show he's also the star of the show and he has pulled himself to think about" "I can't imagine ever what it wouId be like to sit out in an audience for the first time and experience it" "I think the audience are just gonna get nuts" "we didn't come here to finish second"