Brilliant! I could have done this 2.5 years ago.... but my leg fractured spontaneously! Was supposed to have been fixed by a surgeon but was stuffed up big time once again! I am now a crippled woman thanks to shocking intra operative care! disgusting! Now they are saying THR but why should i have to go through this again again?? Nobody or nothing could stop me dancing before this! I can hardly walk now because of the pain I was left with!
@@sueclapton I can imagine some of your pain, since I had a broken arm when I was 8. Hope you able to use a brace to help lessen the pain when you have to walk.
It makes me feel so old to remember this performance when it first happened, it was a global phenomenon at the time and it has endured the years to still be recognised as one of the best performances of all time. Makes me feel very lucky to have seen it when it happened... but old...
@@gailhancocks5207But he worked so hard and got his own company together! He danced until 2016 and retired due to injury and pain. He loved nothing more than he loved the dance!
This dancing is a lifetime achievement and it begins with ballet lessons. I regret not following through with my lessons. I wanted so badly to learn This. It's AWESOME!! 👊👍👍👆
What I love most about Riverdance is how it helped so many young Irish girls and boys realise that they had a tradition that had such power and such beauty and that they wanted to experience it too. That is a powerful thing that a tradition gives to the people who learn and practise it. I've seen it happen in Scotland when the rock band Runrig helped people see their Scots Gaelic heritage as something cool so that the young people no longer saw it as something to apologise for. Tradition has so much to give to the people of its culture and we all get to enjoy as it is practised before us.
I've never seen something like this up thát close, but can understand it did ;) Also hard to understand something like this just didn't exist. Oh how I wish to have been a little older when this thing got off the ground. I was only 6 when the ESC interval act was brought to the world, but can remember Irish dance being on the TV SOOO much (or I just remember it that way because it was so impressive)
Had the same experience from the 6th row. After the show, my friends asked me to rate the performance. On a scale of 1 to 10, I told them I gave it 1000. By far, the best live performance I've ever seen. I've seen the show at RCMH 3 times, each time brought chills during the finale.
I love Irish dancing, but the synchronised line sends shivers down my back. I remember watching this on live TV… It was interval entertainment during the Eurovision Song Contest.
Thefre's ojust something about watching Jean Butler. All those dance moves are incredibly athletic, yet she makes them look effortless. And when she does leaps, she seems to just hang in the air for longer than gravity should allow....she bloody well floats on air.....amazing!!!
Those Irish dancers are magnificent I have watched them perform over the years & now it is saved on tape for all generations to watch & marvel at, Bravo.
It’s one thing to see all of those legs moving in unison. But I realize how incredibly amazing it is when I hear every one of the taps occurring at the appointed time. 🎉
I had the privelaged of seeing Riverdance in the O2 theater in Manchester in I think it was 1998-99. This was a life changer for me. Then a few years later I saw Lord of the Dance again with Michael Flatley. My then wife was in love with him😅😅. Absolutely awesome night.
Looking back to the good old days I am 68 years old it feels good to look back when there were good movies and music God bless everyone from Marian E Cox from West Plains Missouri thank everyone
Wow lads, what a show, they were so fabulous! Looking at the dancers faces, so concentrated on the movements of their feet. Saw the show in Boston in the 90's, nicer times for sure. Pity Ireland isn't the same anymore. Happier days lads!
Riverdance never left. It has been touring around the world constantly since the first show. If you check the official Riverdance website, they post the cities where they are touring each year. I, and some friends are going to see them in Philadelphia next year. (2025).
@jenniferhughes6057 yes, am inclined to agree, to do what he did, to put that choreography together would require a little arrogance, a lot of confidence and a bit of an ego i think.
I remember watching when it was televised. My jaw dropped. Never had I seen anything so entertaining. And Jean Butler stunning beauty and awesome talent took my breath away.
😱 Wow ! Wow ! Wow ! what an incredible performance, the music, the dance, the choreography, these kids are truly blessed, because to be able to dance with this can only be a gift from God ! 💜🙏🙏🙏
tico is in the mood he hears daddy playing on his guitar. sounds like rock and roll again this beautiful bird steaks the show he loves daddy frank. he is a champ greetings from the netherlands
Their choreography is as tight as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were, in their day - however - those two could not ever perform 'Riverdance'. Could anyone?
They are seriously way to focused on their dancing . It’s even more incredible when they dance like pros and are very relaxed and not so focused on their dancing that really shows the true beauty behind their dancing 🕺
I was mesmerized by this, and thought, "So, now it's Ireland's turn!" Where you see a couple dozen, I saw thousands, and soon started to write a story about Ireland in the near future...
Blurry. Is this available in sharp focus? Jean Butler is the personification of all Irish women through the centuries. Green eyes and red hair, and a thoroughly free spirited Irish lass backed up by all the other Irish lads and lasses.
Don't forget that this was shot in SD back then: it won't get any better beyond PAL-resolution, although this probably has some added compression from lots of re-uploading...
yep, like hte guy above said, no HD back then. This is pretty good copy though, there's a newer version out there, but not the same people obviously filmed in 4k and HD.
I am 86 and still remember when RIVERDANCE BURST on to the stage of the POINT THEATRE IN DUBLIN during the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST interval . WHAT a fabulous night long remembered, unbelievable to say the least
La ballerina d'inizio ballo, pareva avesse delle molle nelle gambe. Una leggerezza ed eleganza, stupenda. Il ballo del gruppo poi FAVOLOSO!!! Davvero eccezionali
The Best Riverdance (DVD) Riverdance: The Show (1995) Michael Flatley & Jean Butler Riverdance: Live From New York City (1996) Colin Dunne & Jean Butler Riverdance: Live from Geneva (2002) Breandán de Gallaí & Joanne Doyle Riverdance: Live from Beijing (2010) Padraic Moyles & Aislinn Ryan Riverdance 25 Anniversary Show: Live in Dublin (2020) Bobby Hodges & Amy-Mae Dolan
Me encanta la musica celta de galicia y las gaitas me encanta escucharlas tanto si es de galicia, asturias,escocia .este hombre es fantastic y toca genial las gaitas
Que hermoso ver a un presidente joven.Bailando nuestro baile nacional Y como es su costumbre, incluyendo a los niños .Dándoles la felicidad de sentirse queridos por su presidente. Grande presidente Gabriel Boric
This is such a easy dance well it is when I'm dreaming anyway True fully sheer brilliance i remeber watching this time and time again with my kids happy times
I want both the dresses shown, but also love the performance. That synchronization was perfection
Brilliant! I could have done this 2.5 years ago.... but my leg fractured spontaneously! Was supposed to have been fixed by a surgeon but was stuffed up big time once again! I am now a crippled woman thanks to shocking intra operative care! disgusting! Now they are saying THR but why should i have to go through this again again?? Nobody or nothing could stop me dancing before this! I can hardly walk now because of the pain I was left with!
@@sueclapton I can imagine some of your pain, since I had a broken arm when I was 8. Hope you able to use a brace to help lessen the pain when you have to walk.
It makes me feel so old to remember this performance when it first happened, it was a global phenomenon at the time and it has endured the years to still be recognised as one of the best performances of all time. Makes me feel very lucky to have seen it when it happened... but old...
Yes but he got above himself 😢
❤танец.вернул.к.хорлошему.доброму.😅😊❤
Небреши.зокрема.доброи.пам...ну.гну.😢ппробач.н5ма,зокрема.памяии.й.рроозщу
If it gives you a lift you are not old.
@@gailhancocks5207But he worked so hard and got his own company together! He danced until 2016 and retired due to injury and pain. He loved nothing more than he loved the dance!
When the troupe comes on, I get a shiver down my spine. Magnificent!
Love to watch Riverdance to raise my mood. Jean Butler probably the most beautiful lady on the planet. Mesmerisng.
Couldn't agree more, she always reminds me of Nichole Kidman, who I've been in love with since I first saw her. 💙💙
What a great show! It's quite old, but nothing is better.
I once thought Jean Butler to be the epitome of feminine beauty, grace, and athleticism. I still do. This performance still gives me goosebumps.
I love Irish girls. Jean is a Goddess! ♡♡☆☆☆☆☆
It never ceases to amaze me how they can look like they are floating on air yet actually be touching the ground.
This master nicely combines ballet with national dance
This dancing is a lifetime achievement and it begins with ballet lessons. I regret not following through with my lessons. I wanted so badly to learn This. It's AWESOME!! 👊👍👍👆
What I love most about Riverdance is how it helped so many young Irish girls and boys realise that they had a tradition that had such power and such beauty and that they wanted to experience it too. That is a powerful thing that a tradition gives to the people who learn and practise it. I've seen it happen in Scotland when the rock band Runrig helped people see their Scots Gaelic heritage as something cool so that the young people no longer saw it as something to apologise for. Tradition has so much to give to the people of its culture and we all get to enjoy as it is practised before us.
Ohne Worte , immer wieder schön.Hut ab 🎩
Saw this in 1995 at Radio City Music Hall from the second row. Those dancers made the floor vibrate. It was thrilling!!!
I've never seen something like this up thát close, but can understand it did ;) Also hard to understand something like this just didn't exist. Oh how I wish to have been a little older when this thing got off the ground. I was only 6 when the ESC interval act was brought to the world, but can remember Irish dance being on the TV SOOO much (or I just remember it that way because it was so impressive)
Had the same experience from the 6th row. After the show, my friends asked me to rate the performance. On a scale of 1 to 10, I told them I gave it 1000. By far, the best live performance I've ever seen. I've seen the show at RCMH 3 times, each time brought chills during the finale.
I watch this when I was 10 still watching it when I’m 18. So satisfying
I love Irish dancing, but the synchronised line sends shivers down my back.
I remember watching this on live TV…
It was interval entertainment during the Eurovision Song Contest.
Wow - just wow. The work they must have done, the training, the foot pain they must feel whilst training but..... it was BRILLIANT!
Это же Майкл Флэтли!!! Класс,СУПЕР!!! 👍👍👍
And Jean Butler. 👍
Dear God...going down the shop is a 'big day' for me.
Those dancers are just gold!
Wonderful comment. Me too😮
Thefre's ojust something about watching Jean Butler. All those dance moves are incredibly athletic, yet she makes them look effortless. And when she does leaps, she seems to just hang in the air for longer than gravity should allow....she bloody well floats on air.....amazing!!!
Stunningly beautiful.
She's in love with me - - - she just doesn't know it yet
Idk if they're atheletic or not, I olny know I couldn't do them and she's kinda hot.
Those Irish dancers are magnificent I have watched them perform over the years & now it is saved on tape for all generations to watch & marvel at, Bravo.
love it go go gogo
love it go go go
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It’s one thing to see all of those legs moving in unison. But I realize how incredibly amazing it is when I hear every one of the taps occurring at the appointed time. 🎉
They absolutely blew those people in the audience away.
One of the greatest stage shows ever produced riverdance came out such along time ago but is still as popular as ever brilliant brilliant show
I never tire of watching Riverdance! Remarkable talent and performance.
I had the privelaged of seeing Riverdance in the O2 theater in Manchester in I think it was 1998-99. This was a life changer for me. Then a few years later I saw Lord of the Dance again with Michael Flatley. My then wife was in love with him😅😅. Absolutely awesome night.
Still electrifying after all these years.
Looking back to the good old days I am 68 years old it feels good to look back when there were good movies and music God bless everyone from Marian E Cox from West Plains Missouri thank everyone
Wow lads, what a show, they were so fabulous! Looking at the dancers faces, so concentrated on the movements of their feet. Saw the show in Boston in the 90's, nicer times for sure. Pity Ireland isn't the same anymore. Happier days lads!
I'm scared out my mind at how much work and training goes into making the legs and feet go that fast. Major props.
I wish they would bring back Riverdance
Riverdance never left. It has been touring around the world constantly since the first show. If you check the official Riverdance website, they post the cities where they are touring each year. I, and some friends are going to see them in Philadelphia next year. (2025).
to old
Ah, the gorgeous Jean Butler and Bighead!
Bighead? Harsh. He had every right to be and boy, is he suffering now 😢
@jenniferhughes6057 yes, am inclined to agree, to do what he did, to put that choreography together would require a little arrogance, a lot of confidence and a bit of an ego i think.
Абсолютный восторг! БРАВО!
I had the pleasure of seeing Michael Flatley in Lord of the Dance in Boston. He was absolutely amazing.
Я русская, но обожаю эти танцы!!!
Bravo y salaungher les Irlandais y yarmat les Bretrons gars des deux côtes a toujours! Merci l´Irlande pour cet dance et musique superbe!
Mind blowing performance, brings me to tears of fascination!
Artistry, talent, precision . Michael and Jean and Troupe.......AMAZING 🍀☘🍀☘🍀☘🧡
Щиро дякую Вам за надзвичайно гарний танок.😊 Просто феєрія!
I could watch this over and over!
Utterly fantastic!
I remember watching when it was televised. My jaw dropped. Never had I seen anything so entertaining. And Jean Butler stunning beauty and awesome talent took my breath away.
drmckee p
Я с трепетом отношусь к таким шедеврам!Браво!
Jean Butler’s amazing performance, makes me think of Mohammed Ali’s [Float like a Butterfly, STING like a BEE]!
Wow amazing
Never gets old..been watching for years
Just brilliant dancing, looks like me dancing, Ha ha ha 😂l just love Irish music and dancing 🇮🇪
Jean Butler is an Irish Goddess of Dance! ❤
I may have said this before, but June Butler is so beautiful. I'm in love!
The consensus is 'Jean'
😱 Wow ! Wow ! Wow ! what an incredible performance, the music, the dance, the choreography, these kids are truly blessed, because to be able to dance with this can only be a gift from God ! 💜🙏🙏🙏
tico is in the mood he hears daddy playing on his guitar. sounds like rock and roll again this beautiful bird steaks the show he loves daddy frank. he is a champ greetings from the netherlands
young Michael Flately and Jean Butler - the legends
N. Hitrik j
Their choreography is as tight as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were, in their day - however - those two could not ever perform 'Riverdance'. Could anyone?
They are seriously way to focused on their dancing . It’s even more incredible when they dance like pros and are very relaxed and not so focused on their dancing that really shows the true beauty behind their dancing 🕺
Byłem na Waszym występie kilka/kilkanaście lat temu! Szczęka mi opadła!
I was mesmerized by this, and thought, "So, now it's Ireland's turn!" Where you see a couple dozen, I saw thousands, and soon started to write a story about Ireland in the near future...
Отдай.себя.любьви.
What a beautiful people.
God bless the Irish !
I’ve watched this video probably a hundred times and it’s truly amazing! Never gets old!
Ever try and dance like this? After a few mins you feel like you are off the floor as much as on it, gives you a feeling of euphoria!
Make's me proud to feel Irish...Good Luck...and may all your gods go with you
..xxx
Jean Butler will always be remembered as being the best performer in Riverdance.....
Blurry. Is this available in sharp focus? Jean Butler is the personification of all Irish women through the centuries. Green eyes and red hair, and a thoroughly free spirited Irish lass backed up by all the other Irish lads and lasses.
Don't forget that this was shot in SD back then: it won't get any better beyond PAL-resolution, although this probably has some added compression from lots of re-uploading...
yep, like hte guy above said, no HD back then. This is pretty good copy though, there's a newer version out there, but not the same people obviously filmed in 4k and HD.
"Jean Butler is the personification of all Irish women through the centuries" - Yes she is but a Long Islander, believe it or not. ☘☘
It makes me proud to be Irish!
Jean Butler, amazing!!!!
If you happen to be a Male and don't smile when you see her.....you're dead.
Amazing dancers. I had an old mechanical calculator that sounded like all those shoes.
I have the video tape of this as a kid and watched it probably several hundred times
Русскими словами - это пц какой-то!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Молодцы! А кто этоа рыженькая, партнеоша Флетли?
Jean Butler
Yep you said it. Best RiverDance ever.
Michaels future Wife Niamh was in the line up!
Quelle beauté cette danseuse et magnifique interprétation de l'enssemble de ce groupe mille bravos
I am 86 and still remember when RIVERDANCE BURST on to the stage of the POINT THEATRE IN DUBLIN during the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST interval . WHAT a fabulous night long remembered, unbelievable to say the least
Jean Butler is so beautiful.
Absolutely feckin' lethal :)
La ballerina d'inizio ballo, pareva avesse delle molle nelle gambe. Una leggerezza ed eleganza, stupenda. Il ballo del gruppo poi FAVOLOSO!!! Davvero eccezionali
Szacunek! Szacunek ! I jeszcze raz Szacunek !
Wspaniale i genialne !!
Gratulacje !!!
Великолепно! Как пишущая машинка отбарабанили!!!
Michael Flatley. I always loved watching him 😻👏🏻🥰‼️
У нас называлось - чечетка...Но мне всегда нравилась... чечетка.Майкл был шикарен.Тот,кто пришел ему на смену...ну...ни какой и с бородой..
The Best Riverdance (DVD)
Riverdance: The Show (1995)
Michael Flatley & Jean Butler
Riverdance: Live From New York City (1996)
Colin Dunne & Jean Butler
Riverdance: Live from Geneva (2002)
Breandán de Gallaí & Joanne Doyle
Riverdance: Live from Beijing (2010)
Padraic Moyles & Aislinn Ryan
Riverdance 25 Anniversary Show: Live in Dublin (2020)
Bobby Hodges & Amy-Mae Dolan
You forgot Pat Roddy and Eileen Martin.😮
That strut down the stairs was awesome.
Marvellous synchrony.
Просто сердце останавливается от восторга!
Quelle performance bravo à toutes et à tous. ..Bravo
Me encanta la musica celta de galicia y las gaitas me encanta escucharlas tanto si es de galicia, asturias,escocia .este hombre es fantastic y toca genial las gaitas
This is dancing not bagpiprs. UT strikes again!
@@appaloosa42 dead right, it's dancing but what are bagpiprs ?
Чудо чудесное Божественне чуство Ритма
Pure...Magic..The opinion of an Athenian, the Hellenique Capital. Hopefull we will welcome them in HERODION THEATRE in days to come..
Que hermoso ver a un presidente joven.Bailando nuestro baile nacional
Y como es su costumbre, incluyendo a los niños .Dándoles la felicidad de sentirse queridos por su presidente.
Grande presidente Gabriel Boric
WONDERFUL !!!!
Смотреть можно вечно.шикарно.
I saw Lord of the dance in France ( Montpellier) , and it was wonderfull ! 😍🤩
Clog dancing at its best. Magnificent.
This is PHENOMENAL!
Great rendition of In the Still of the Night.
Great job kids!!
...ritmuri, Irlandeze! Wonderful!
Annyira jó , szép ez a tánc 😊😊
Jean Butler is a Celtic goddess
ancora bravissimi!!" complimenti. Guido
Every few years I like to watch river dancers
Could watch all day long…WONDERFUL ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
awakens my senses, i love it.
Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous Bravo 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Who's still here enjoying this awesomeness in 2024
🎉🤘😊🤘🎉
I remember them!! Love!!!
Mi è venuta la pelle d'oca.......BRAVISSIMI........
This is such a easy dance well it is when I'm dreaming anyway
True fully sheer brilliance i remeber watching this time and time again with my kids happy times
I love river dance being half Irish
i thought riverdance was 100% IRISH
That should definitely be an Olympic sport
saw them live in montreal. fantastic show.