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Declan Galbraith Enya Brennan Joanie Madden? Irish stepdance ——Riverdance Riverdance is a musical and dancing interval act which originally starred Michael Flatley and Jean Butler and featuring the choir Anúna. It was performed during the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. Popular reaction to the act was so immense that an entire musical revue was built around the act.  Scene by Scene Act OneReel Around the Sun?/?The Heart’s Cry?/?The Countess Cathleen?/?Caoineadh Chú Chulainn (Lament)?/?Thunderstorm?/?Firedance?/?Shivna?/?Slip into Spring–The Harvest?/?Riverdance Act Two American Wake?/?Lift the Wings?/?Heal Their Hearts – Freedom?/?Trading Taps?/?Macedonian Morning?/?Andalucía?/?Oscail an Doras (Open the Door)?/?Slow Air Tunes?/?Heartland?/?Finalé Act One In a primitive and powerful world, our ancestors knew fear and joy and fire, worked wood and stone and water to make a place they could call home. The first peoples knew the world as a place of power, their songs and dances and stories are negotiations with elemental powers. The first half of this performance shows them coming to terms with the world and with themselves. Reel Around The Sun The sun brings life and light and fire, the opening dance sequence celebrates this benevolent masculine power. The sun is the light of morning, exuberant and clear. Thunderstorm The brute power of elemental forces, beyond human control, beyond human understanding. Firedance In ancient Ireland fire and pride and beauty come out of the south, from the land of the sun. The power of the sun invests itself in the passion of the dancer. Riverdance Our story begins in the evocation of the Riverwoman, it moves through the dawn of history as the river moves through the land. As the power of the river grows, as the barren earth becomes fertile, as men and women grow in their sense of themselves, our story rises until it floods the world in a vital, joyous riot of celebration. Act Two War, famine and slavery shatte