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
Paul Taylor (choreographer) Paul Taylor (choreographer) Paul Belville Taylor, Jr. (July 29, 1930 – August 29, 2018) was an American dancer and choreographer. He was among the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. Taylor was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Paul Belville Taylor, Sr., a physicist, and to the former Elizabeth Rust Pendleton. He grew up in and around Washington, DC. By his teens, he had grown to more than six feet in height. He was a swimmer and student of painting at Syracuse University in the late 1940s. Upon discovering dance through books at the school