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
Russell Dumas (choreographer) 1972, Solo for Charlie 1972, Solo with Pendulums 1972, Dancers that have danced with Dance Exchange Jonathan Sinatra Stuart Shugg Linda Sastradipradja Lucy Guerin Rebecca Hilton David Huggins Molly McMenamin Eric Fon Nicole Jenvey Beth Lane Russell Dumas (choreographer) Russell Dumas (born 17 October 1946) is an Australian dancer, choreographer and writer. Russell Dumas was born in Brisbane, and studied both classical and modern dance. He first began stage performance with J.C. Williamson and later danced internationally with the London Festival Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Nederlands Dans Theater, the Royal Ballet, Culberg Ballet, Strider Dance Company, Trisha Brown and Twyla Tharp.