Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval act during the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler, Michael Flatley and the vocal ensemble Anúna. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. As of 2025, the show continues to tour the world.
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Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval act during the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler, Michael Flatley and the vocal ensemble Anúna. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. As of 2025, the show continues to tour the world.
==Background== Riverdance is rooted in a three-part suite of baroque-influenced traditional music called Timedance. The suite was composed, recorded and performed for the interval act of the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, thirteen years prior to the famous 1994 Eurovision interval act. For the 1981 performance, Bill Whelan and Dónal Lunny composed the music alongside Irish folk band Planxty, with accompanying dancers from Dublin City Ballet. It was later released as a Planxty single. When describing the origin of the name "Riverdance", Whelan said: "It was no mistake of mine to call it Riverdance because it connected absolutely to Timedance".
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