Feet of Flames Taiwan: Planet Ireland Press Performance

A full-blown #FeetOfFlames tour usually has at least two weeks of group rehearsal before being seen by the public. In Taiwan 2020, Team Lord had barely more than two *days.* Compounding things further: those two days came after two weeks of quarantine in hotel rooms, which in turn came after nine *months* of inactivity. And this was a troupe that was more than fifty-percent new. There’s a reason why we here at #LordOfTheDance call this The Impossible Tour. A major test came on the second day of rehearsals, when Team Lord was scheduled to perform for the Taiwanese press. There was no margin for error here; if anyone slipped up, it would be seen on camera, transmitted across all of Taiwan to potential ticket purchasers, and immortalized on the internet. #FeetOfFlames is the commercial flagship of #IrishDancing: it’s the show Michael Flatley built to sell out stadiums. This could have easily been a disaster. But these were the greatest #IrishDance pros in the world, who’d trained literally their entire live