Michael Flatley

I genuinely believe Michael Flatley is a creative revolutionary. A Chicago-born son of Irish immigrants, he took a rigid, arms-pinned tradition and electrified it with syncopation and upper-body movement, then exported that energy to the entire planet. Riverdance lit the fuse, but Lord of the Dance proved he could build an empire on his own terms. The sheer velocity of his footwork still feels like an assault on human limits. What I love is that he never destroyed the tradition; he poured new life into it. His reputation for bravado reads, to me, as the earned confidence of a man who genuinely changed an art form.

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Name (English)

Michael Flatley

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・フラットレー

Reading

まいける・ふらっとれー

Born

July 16, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

dancer / choreographer / actor / film director / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dog

High school

Brother Rice High School

Awards & achievements

• Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.michaelflatley.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Flatley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316685

Tags

• Illinois
• dancer
• choreographer
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.