National Dance Company of Ireland: Rhythm of the Dance
This brand-new streaming production takes the audiences on an exhilarating, exciting and energy-packed 2-hour time-trip through the ages, award-winning dancers, excellent musicians, and foot-tapping passion. This sensational performance will be available via On-Demand streaming for the first time in history. MPAC patrons can view the show between March 6 – 14, 2021!
Over 7 million fans worldwide mark the 20th anniversary of Rhythm of the Dance!
Fans everywhere are enjoying 2,000 years and more, of dance, music, songs and culture from pre-Celtic times to modern day sounds all compacted into a virtual concert. Rhythm of the Dance is full of flailing feet and fiddles, futuristic dances, eye-catching lighting and costumes, sensational sound effects and is now one of the top 3 Irish step dance shows in the world.
Apart from having World and Irish champion dancers; Rhythm of the Dance also has some of the finest Traditional musicians plus singers who are a big hit everywhere. Perhaps it’s the combination of having the crème de la crème of live performers, intertwined with the latest technology, that takes the audiences on an exhilarating and exciting, energy packed 2-hour time-trip through the ages and makes it so successful.
The band consists of top class musicians who play a vast array of musical instruments which include the Traditional Uilleann pipes, Irish Bodhran, fiddles, flutes, accordions, banjo and whistles.