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
Kevin McCormack (dancer) Kevin McCormack (dancer) Kevin McCormack (born 1970) is a former professional Irish dancer who spent many years as a Dance Captain with "Riverdance". The Dublin native was part of the original 24 troupe members for "Riverdance's" seven-minute interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. A 10-time World Irish Dance Champion, McCormack holds ADCRG titleship which means he is recognised by An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, the governing body of Irish dancing worldwide, as being qualified to adjudicate Irish Step dancing on any competitive level throughout the world. McCormack began dancing at the age of three years due to his