Feet of Flames grew out of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, which itself sprung from the original dance concert Riverdance in which Michael was a performer. Each new incarnation was an improvement over the previous until Feet of Flames was performed before a live audience of 25,000 attendees at Hyde Park in the center of London on July 25, 1998. This show can be viewed as a three act performance with the innovation that for the first time Celtic Dancers were told to use their arms as a part of their choreography.
Directors: Michael Flatley, David Mallet
Stars: Michael Flatley, Bernadette Flynn, Leigh Anne McKenna.
Most enjoyable when the dancers tap. The finale + encores utilize an amazing number of dancers on 3 or 4 levels onstage. As usual, too much cutting to various camera angles/distances, but given the style of dance, where dancers mostly move legs in place, over-cutting is not so annoying here.
Supposedly MF's last show, but we have IMDb entries in '11 and '14. The extra doc'y on the making of this show is also good stuff.
Rated 8.5 (438)
(none), dir. Flatley & Mallet; 8
