Riverdance from the packed theatre of 4,000 people. The performance is often considered the most well known interval act in Eurovision Song Contest history. Riverdance was later performed as an interval act at both the "" (2005) and "Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits" (2015) events. Lead dancers Michael Flatley and Jean Butler transformed the previously chaste and reserved traditional dance form into something else entirely. The song "Riverdance" was released as a single and entered the Irish Singles Chart at No. 1 right after the Eurovision debut, staying there for 18 weeks—the longest amount of time a song has ever topped
Jack Cole (choreographer) dance-training workshop at Columbia Pictures; his pupils included Carol Haney. Cole and his legacy are the subject of a dance musical by choreographer Chet Walker titled "Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project", given its world premiere in May 2012 at Queens Theatre in New York's Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Jack Cole (choreographer) Jack Cole (April 27, 1911 in New Brunswick, New Jersey – February 17, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance". Cole was born John Ewing Richter in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Early on he