Heartbeat of Home has had its world
premiere in the Bord Gais energy theatre and I went along to see it.We booked the tickets late so we were a little high up in the theatre but the view was ok
Created by the Producers and Director of
Riverdance, Heartbeat of Home is a music and dance spectacular featuring not
only Irish dance but Flamenco, Afro-Cuban and Latin dancing to go with it.
The first half is describe as a “dream voyage” and pretty much going along
the lines of people leaving home for distant shores yaddi yadda. It was good
but the second half was a lot better I thought. The second half was a mix of
cultures they had arrived at the new world and it was Irish dances mixed with
Latin mixed with anything else they could throw in. My two favourite scenes
included a dance with hurls and a sketch of the famous photo of workers resting
on a girder high above New York’s
Rockefeller Centre but Irish style. I loved this scene especially when they
pulled back the steps to extreme basics even just for that split second or two.
Projections added to the scenes made it all the more easier for an audience to
imagine being carried away on these strange voyages with the dancers.
The show also had some fabulous new music and two very pretty ballads
including “Lead me home” and at times
all dancers were off the stage giving the fabulous band their moment of being
centre stage which was well deserved.
It was a fabulous show that fully deserved the three standing ovations it
got the night we went.
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