Riverdance
Posted by: Rasher on 20 June 2007
RiverdanceSo what's all that about then? Do people really pay money to go to this stuff? I asked my wifes freind and she said; "Oh, but it's so clever". Well, my mate Tony can fix my photocopier and that's pretty clever, but he wouldn't do it on stage every night to a paying audience of thousands. I don't get it - it just looks ridiculous - up top they just look like waxworks, while below the belt it's like the local car wash. It isn't like there is any decent music going on. How come this is Broadway box-office smash hit stuff?
Tell me I'm not alone....please.
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by Gary S.
Awe c'mon Rasher! it's ever so clever
. Now if your mate Tony could mend a photocopier whilst doing that he'd be a millionaire
Gary
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by JWM
Bet it's good on endless loop on your local 'Irish' theme pub's million-inch flatscreen telly
But anyway, Rasher, howcomes you're trawling YouTube for Riverdance?
James
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by Rasher
Ahh...yes...good question. It popped up while Googling for Irish music. I was trying to find Horslips but forgot their name. This is where I came across Bachman Turner Overdrive, but I'm unsure how that came about.
Google < Irish Music < Wikipedia < down the list on the left - Riverdance.
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by BigH47
I've been to 4 of Micheals Flatley's shows with him dancing and also the touring troupes doing "sampler" shows SWMBO is a fan. I think the original Riverdance on Eurovision was a WTF was that moment. Not since the line dancers from the nice Saturday night shows on the Beeb has any one attempted that sort of co-ordination, especially with less than easy dance steps.
Flatley has developed the idea and like him or not has made a lot of money and I suspect given a lot of enjoyment to many 10s of thousands of people. Ronan Hardiman has written and adapted Irish music for the shows and as a consequence has brought that to the attention more of many people too.
Should I wait with baited breath for the really cleaver thing Rasher is going to amaze us all with?
A touch of the "I haven't read the book, but I don't like it" I think.
Howard
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by Deane F
Apparently Riverdance is a good demonstration of how Roman Catholicism taught the Irish to dance without sinning...
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by acad tsunami
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Originally posted by Deane F:
Apparently Riverdance is a good demonstration of how Roman Catholicism taught the Irish to dance without sinning...
dancing without using their arms either.
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by Deane F
Spinning without sinning...?
Posted on: 20 June 2007 by BigH47
Irish dance had developed like that because the holy fathers thought contact during dance was "too sexually stimulating" so the arms were fixed to prevent any contact.
Posted on: 21 June 2007 by Nigel Cavendish
Doubt it.
Posted on: 21 June 2007 by Rasher
There are several theories of why this type of Irish dancing came about; one being that it was so overpopulated in Ireland due to the Church banning contraception, that there was no room and the whole country was crowded together upright like commuters on the London to Brighton rush hour train. They of course loved dancing, so this was the only way they could do it.
Another theory is that it came about from the Victorian times when they used to send boys up chimneys, but as they had such a poor diet and were overweight, they got stuck. The legs action was a call for help. The name Riverdance came about because they used to piss themselves.
Posted on: 21 June 2007 by Chris Kelly
Posted on: 21 June 2007 by BigH47
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Doubt it
Don't.
Rasher grow up.
Posted on: 21 June 2007 by Rasher
Don't worry, I'm off to Goodwood Festival Of Speed tomorrow, so you can have a break from me.
I'll race you to the Scalextric track Howard and I'll let you have the best car.
