MICHAEL FLATLEY SIGNED BOOK "LORD OF THE DANCE" NEW FIRST EDITION
The book Lord of the Dance signed Michael Flatley in London in April 2006.
NEW Condition
Hardcover
Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958)[1] is an Irish-American dancer. He became known for creating and performing in Irish dance shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Celtic Tiger Live and Michael Flatley's Christmas Dance Spectacular. Flatley's shows have played to more than 60 million people in 60 countries and have grossed more than $1 billion.[2] His career also includes work as an actor, writer, director, producer, and philanthropist.
Flatley is credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance by incorporating new rhythms, syncopation, and upper body movements, which were previously absent from the dance, as well as including influences from tap and contemporary dance. He formerly held the Guinness World Record for tap dancing 35 times per second and his feet were at one time insured for $57.6 million. Flatley retired from dance in 2016 due to constant spinal, knee, foot, and rib pain but remains active in the music business.
Early life
Michael Ryan Flatley was born on July 16, 1958, the second of five children born to Irish parents Michael James Flatley and Elisabeth "Eilish" Flatley (née Ryan), both of whom had emigrated to the United States in 1947.[4][5] Michael was a plumber from County Sligo, and Eilish was a gifted step dancer from County Carlow whose mother, Hannah Ryan, was a champion dancer.[6] Michael and Eilish met at an Irish dance in Detroit,[7] and were married in that city on August 25, 1956.[5] They eventually had five children: Anne-Marie, Michael, Eliza, Thomasina, and Patrick.[8] When Michael was two months old, the family moved from Detroit to Chicago's South Side.
In Chicago, Flatley began dance lessons at age eleven with Dennis G. Dennehy at the Dennehy School of Irish Dance.[9] He attended Brother Rice High School, an all-boys Catholic private school.[5] In 1975, at age 17, Flatley was the first American to win a World Irish Dance title at Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne, the Irish dancing championships.[10] In 1975 and 1976, Flatley won twice in the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil concert flute competitions.
In the 1970s, Flatley competed in the amateur boxing Chicago Golden Gloves tournament in the 126 pound novice division and won the middleweight division of the Chicago Golden Gloves Boxing Championship. He recorded five knock-out victories. Flatley stated that he continued to flirt with the idea of becoming a professional into the early 1980s, but ultimately stayed with a career in dance. In this early stage of his career he was described as "the white Michael Jackson" by The Hollywood Reporter, the "Rudolph Nureyev of Irish dance" by the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and the Washington Post compared his feet to "the hands of Vladimir Horowitz in power and agility".[12] He later became a philanthropic donor to the Golden Gloves organization.[13] In 2023 Flatley was one of four fighters to be named a Titan of Chicago Golden Gloves Boxing during their 100th Anniversary celebrations
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