Michael Flatley's Lord Of the Dance Las Vegas Sow

	Michael Flatley's Lord Of the Dance

Michael Flatley, who originated the role of the Lord, remains the artistic director for Lord of the Dance and oversees all aspects of this Celtic dance spectacular. He originally opened the show in Dublin in 1996 and saw its success take off immediately. "It's such a different form of dance . . . what I'm doing here is an accelerated version of Irish traditional dance and, at the same time, I have incorporated the upper body movement and all the arm movements," says Flatley. "But it's not done like ballet. It's not done like tap, and it's not done like flamenco. It's something that I had to create from scratch because nothing else would fit there." The Los Angeles Time calls it "a showpiece extravaganza", the New York Post calls it "fascinating, rewarding and, above all, entertaining."