It was my Mom's Birthday on March 24th, so I wanted to find something that she would like. What better gift than a night out with her favorite girls? :)
Riverdance - On a stage bathed in the blues and greens of the Irish sea, in a Celtic-looking, rock-like setting worthy of Stonehenge, a thunderous battalion of Irish step dancers, furious fiddlers, and sonorous voices tell a story of ancient Celtic mythology and Irish history.
The first Act speaks of a primitive and powerful world, where the ancestors knew fear and joy and fire, worked wood and stone and water to make a place they could call home. The first peoples knew the world as a place of power; their songs and dances and stories are negotiations with elemental powers.
In Act 2, war, famine and slavery shattered the ancient bonds between people and place. Forced dislocations marked and altered the histories of the native peoples. As they came into history, they learned to guard what they valued, to accomodate themselves to others, to learn new ways of being themselves, to embrace new kinds of courage. Cast out and momentarily orphaned, they learned to belong to the world.
The only sad thing, in my opinion, is that God doesn't seem to be anywhere in the mix (in Riverdance I mean, not Irish history). Just a thought......
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