Word: dublin
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...years ago, a small group of friends in Dublin decided it was time to update that picture. TV producer Moya Doherty was faced with creating a seven-minute filler piece for the 1994 Eurovision pop-song contest. "I wanted to show a modern image of Ireland," she says, "not the old green pastures. Irish dance is frozen in tradition, and I thought it's time to thaw...
Riverdance was bold from the beginning, owing nearly as much to a Broadway chorus line as to Irish tradition. It opened in Dublin early last year with a cast of 26 dancers and musicians (the company now numbers 85). The production's signature is scarcely controlled energy and bravura. Legs fly, but arms too are often loose and vividly expressive. A piece for the male corps called Thunderstorm is a consistent showstopper. It is performed a cappella, the tapping, stamping feet providing the accompaniment. As the dancers traverse the floor, the rhythm they kick up resembles a storm...
Since the first SRO Dublin engagement, Riverdance has shuttled between Ireland and London, where it plays at Labatt's Apollo theater in Hammersmith, an old rock palace where the Beatles and the Stones once trod the boards. Because it is a big, expensive production, the show needs a theater that seats around 3,000. This week it starts a short U.S. run at New York City's Radio City Music Hall; most seats were sold weeks ago. A national tour is planned for later in the year...
...disgusted the people of Ireland, undermined support for Sinn Fein in America and damaged the credibility of Adams, who had promised that the I.R.A. had renounced violence. Although it is difficult to see how a permanent solution to the Ulster problem can be achieved without Sinn Fein's involvement, Dublin and London have declared that they will hold all-party talks with or without Adams...
Adams is not the only one working at that task, of course. The bomb did jolt the parties out of their negotiating lethargy. In recent days Dublin and London have been working together closely--and vigorously--to sort out the torrent of complicated proposals for conferences, referendums, elections and talks that have come from all sides. Everyone seems to have a Northern Ireland peace plan. British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton hope to meet next week to propose a new schedule for getting talks under way. Whether Sinn Fein and Adams will be included depends...