{"id":13654,"date":"2017-03-20T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2017-03-20T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:13:13","slug":"flatley-brings-lord-of-the-dance-dangerous-games-to-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/03\/flatley-brings-lord-of-the-dance-dangerous-games-to-the-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatley brings Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games to the Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Following its Irish Premier in 2016 and sold out shows in Belfast,\u00a0Michael Flatley\u2019s Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games &#8211; a spectacular new staging of the traditional masterpiece, has confirmed Derry dates in 2018 for a limited run to celebrate the creation of the Lord Of The Dance phenomenon.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13655\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/press2-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" \/>With all the visceral precision and thrills of the original, Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games features new staging, new costumes and choreography and forty of the world\u2019s most outstanding young performers. The show is directed by Michael Flatley, including his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, Morgan Comer and Cathal Keaney, who were trained to take on the lead role of Lord Of The Dance following Flatley\u2019s departure from the show. \u00a0With new music by composer Gerard Fahy, this latest iteration combines the best of tradition with all the excitement of new music and dance.<\/p>\n<p>After securing the dates with Joe Gallagher Entertainments, Flatley said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am delighted to be bringing &#8216;Lord of the Dance&#8217; Dangerous Games to Derry.\u00a0\u00a0It is a perfect setting and myself and the troupe are very excited about our run. It is also a great time for me to be involved in taking\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Lord of the Dance&#8217; to a new \u00a0level with Dangerous \u00a0Games. \u00a0There are so many great dancers in Derry, the home of Irish Dancing in Northern Ireland. I suppose you could say it\u2019s Irish Dancing coming home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets for Lord Of The Dance Dangerous Game go on sale on Friday 24th March from the Millennium Forum Box Office.\u00a0 Telephone 71 264455 or visit millenniumforum.co.uk for bookings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following its Irish Premier in 2016 and sold out shows in Belfast,\u00a0Michael Flatley\u2019s Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games &#8211; a spectacular new staging of the traditional masterpiece, has confirmed Derry dates in 2018 for a limited run to celebrate the creation of the Lord Of The Dance phenomenon. With all the visceral precision and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/03\/flatley-brings-lord-of-the-dance-dangerous-games-to-the-forum\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13656,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}