Riverdance Later that month, Riverdance returned, by popular demand, to the Point Theatre for a six-week sell-out run. Despite the show's growing success, cracks were beginning to appear in the relationship between the producers and lead dancer Michael Flatley. Flatley had choreographed many of the numbers in the multicultural spectacle, but after the show took off, the two parties clashed over salary and royalty fees. At the end of September 1995, a contract dispute arose between Flatley and Riverdance. On 29 September, days before the show was due to reopen for a second sell-out run at The Apollo, Flatley's TV appearances
Irma Suarez Ruiz Irma Suarez Ruiz Irma Suarez Ruiz (born 1959) is an American dancer, educator, choreographer, director, and costume designer. She is the Artistic Director for the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois. Born in Chicago, Ruiz (of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent) moved to Mexico City to live with her family for a period before moving back to Chicago. Graduating from Senn High School in Chicago, she saw a performance of Ensemble Español as a freshman at Northeastern Illinois University. With a new aspiration to become a Spanish dancer, she began taking dance classes as