Michael Flatleys Feet of Flames The Impossible Tour Gypsy feat Andrea PappKren

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Her name is Andrea Papp-Kren. And this is something special: a completely new take on the role of Morrighan the Temptress. • In the twenty-five years Lord of the Dance has existed, many truly sublime female Irish dancers have interpreted the role of Morrighan. A few have been immortalized on film: Leigh Ann McKenna, Aisling McCabe, Ciara Sexton, Aimee Black, and -- if you follow Team Lord social media -- Kelly Hendry and Catriona Bucke have all been seen on film. All of them perform the role in very different ways -- some coquettish, some feisty, some mysterious -- creating a different atmosphere for the drama each time. • But, as this is the 25th anniversary year for Lord of the Dance, the elephant in the room must be addressed: the long shadow cast by Gillian Norris, the OG Morrighan. • It's not just that Gillian is an incredible performer; it's that, in 1996, no one had ever seen anything like it before in Irish dancing. Ever. • So, a quarter century later, how do you make the role your own? How do you get lightning to strike twice? If all you do is try to imitate what came before, you'll never live up to the memory of what was, nor your own abilities as a performer. • Andrea's answer is perfect: completely reinvent the role. • There is not a single common element between Andrea's portrayal of Morrighan and anyone else's. What you see here is completely unique -- and jaw-dropping. • Part of this has to do with the inherent differences in the performers. When Gillian made her debut in 1996, she was a teenager. Andrea, meanwhile, is in her thirties. A woman in her thirties does not move the same way as a woman in her teenage years; life happens to you, changes you, and this is reflected in how you move. When Andrea takes the stage as Morrighan, this is no coquettish ingenue; this is a woman, and a woman with agency. • (It's worth pointing out at this juncture, by the way, that Michael himself was 40 years old when the original Feet of Flames was performed.) • What you see on that stage with Andrea is the living embodiment of fire itself. Andrea's Morrighan is a pleasure demon, daring you to even try to stand up to her. When she looks at you, you are prey -- and she knows you've already lost. It gives the Impossible Tour a wonderful inverted power dynamic: Andrea's Morrighan is older than Matt Smith's Lord of the Dance, and this plays out rather dramatically in the second act of the show. • For the classic die-hards in the back, let's put it this way: when you see Andrea dance, the catsuit makes sense. • What makes this all so wonderfully poignant is that Andrea, in real life, is truly one of the sweetest human beings you will ever meet. If you didn't know who she was and just struck up a conversation with her, the adjective you'd use to describe her afterwards would probably be...well, bashful. • Offstage, you would have no idea that this Hungarian woman is one of the foremost Irish dancers on the planet, as well as one of the most respected dance captains in the genre. She's just completely without any ego. But when the music starts, Andrea disappears -- and Morrighan the demon emerges. • One of the interesting things about Lord of the Dance as a brand is that its rise to success was so stratospheric that many aspects of its earliest days are forever seared into the minds of the fans as How Things Should Look. You can see it yourself on occasion in the comments section, when people forget that the performers themselves actually read these posts: remarks along the lines of, Yeah, this was good, but it's not the original. • And you know what? They're right. This isn't the original. This is new. It's exactly what it should be: honoring what came before, then taking the next logical step and evolving it further. You can't just keep doing the same thing over and over again; Michael himself has stated repeatedly that if you stagnate, you die. What's important is to strike the right balance between a mixture of familiar and new, holding the audience's hand, so that it feels like a logical and emotionally satisfying progression. • What you see here, with Andrea's astonishing reinterpretation of Morrighan, does not throw away the past; it honors it. • As we slowly reveal these numbers from the Impossible Tour video, our hope is that you will see the simple truth: that you can honor what you fell in love with twenty-five years ago and thoroughly love and enjoy what's available today -- because it's all part of the same saga. • Twenty-five years from now, people will be talking about Andrea's iconic performances in the same way we today reverently talk about Gillian's -- and a third-generation dancer, perhaps not even yet born at the time of this writing, inspired by Gillian and Andrea, will take the stage, reinvent the role once more, and perform a new chapter for us all to enjoy. • #FollowYourDream

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