Michael Flatley Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is a former Irish-American dancer, choreographer, and musician. He became internationally known for Irish dance shows "Riverdance", "Lord of the Dance", "Feet of Flames", and "Celtic Tiger Live". Flatley's shows have played to more than 60 million people in 60 countries and have grossed more than $1 billion. Flatley is credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance by incorporating new rhythms, syncopation, and upper body movements, which were previously absent from the dance. He is in the Guinness World Records for tap dancing 35 times per second and his feet were at
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