Michael Flatley's Feet of Flames: The Impossible Tour -- Warlords (featuring MATT SMITH)
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2021
- At last, it's time: Warlords.
Here's what separates Lord of the Dance from everyone else, what sells out stadiums and grosses over one-billion dollars: the willingness to unapologetically be the greatest -- and prove it.
This show isn't about austere technical dancing to polite applause. This show is a raw title fight fused with a rock concert, painted in BIG, LOUD PRIMARY COLORS.
Lord of the Dance dares to go for it.
You either understand this or you don't.
Matt Smith understands this. To be the Lord of the Dance, the most high-profile role in commercial Irish dancing, you have to have exactly the right combination of swagger, charm, and jaw-dropping technical skill. This is not a role you play; this is something you are. When you step out onto that stage, you are the man that an entire stadium paid money to see.
The audience didn't pay to see "Sort of the Dance" -- they paid to see LORD of the Dance. And when you are the lead dancer in the most successful dance show of all time, with a 15,000-seat stadium expecting to be blown away, you are the greatest Irish dancer in the world.
That's not ego. That's confidence. To quote Yoda: "Do or do not. There is no try."
It's not enough to just perform the steps. The steps have been nearly the same for over twenty-five years. Before there was even a show, there was this number; Warlords was the first glimpse the world got at Michael Flatley's mysterious new stage production, seen for the first time in 1995 on the Des O'Connor Show. By this point, Warlords is to commercial Irish dancing what a traditional set dance is to competition Irish dancing: it's something that everyone has seen. Thus, the bar is set stratospherically high, because anyone stepping onto that stage is automatically compared to Michael Flatley.
And Matt Smith pulls it off.
He ought to. He was handpicked by Michael himself to star in the Impossible Tour video.
Obviously, the energy that Matt Smith brings to the role is not the same as Michael's. When Michael first performed in Feet of Flames, he was forty years old, already a global celebrity and universally acknowledged as the king of the ring; Matt Smith, meanwhile, is in his late twenties -- a hungry supernova of a dancer, up against a quarter-century of nostalgia, out to prove to you that what you really want to see right now is more of him. As a result, Matt's performance is more brash and youthful: the boy next door coming into his own.
But it is here, in Warlords, that you see that boy become a man.
That raw feeling you got from the legendary 1996 video? That urgency, right under the surface, making you hold your breath? It's back. Because in twenty-five years only a handful of lead dancers have ever been immortalized on film in Lord of the Dance, and Matt Smith literally fought his entire life for this title shot.
So here it is.
That swagger is real. That command of the stage is real. That smoldering sexuality, so critical to the show, is real. Here, in Warlords, the point is driven home: Matt Smith is the Lord of the Dance.
Read it again: Matt Smith is the Lord of the Dance.
Now watch an entire stadium discover this truth for themselves.
This is Feet of Flames: the Impossible Tour.
This is Warlords.
And this is the New Generation.
#FollowYourDream - Zábava
Absolutely great job 👏👏👏
Brilliant 👍
I grew up idolizing Michael. Because of riverdance and Lord of the Dance, I got into playing Irish music (flute and bodhran) and I danced for a few years as a teenager.
YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍 love it!!
Most amazing show and dancers on the planet.
Absolutely amazing.
Настоящие мужчины !!!! И девочки КРАСОТКИ !!!!
Благодарю мил человек за ваш труд!👏👏👏👍
Never been this early. I love river dance
Wonderful! I love the masculinity of these dances!
I'm watching Micheal flatley now he is amazing the way he trains everyone I love watching love him he is fantastic ❤to everyone from Angie
Великолепно! Matt Smith вообще выше всяких похвал.
Браво!
Der absolute Wahnsinn! Großartig und einzigartig!! 😃👍
Слов, нет, эмоции зашкаливают! Это, нечто!!!!!!!!! Спасибо вам огромное!!!!!!!!!
Безупречное исполнение!Очень красиво!Браво маэстро!!!
TRIZHDY,BRAVO 3time!
♥️♥️👏👏👏Fantastic just bravo!!!
Спасибо Миру за праздник души-танца!!! Спасибо!!! Браво!!!
КРАСАВЧИКИ! МУЖЧИНЫ!♥️🧡❤💐
Красивые, талантливые парни! Танцуют просто класс!
Wonderful, I can’t say any more then that. Love it.
'Sort of The Dance'.... Blurb Writer, I love you. Oh, and I vividly recall the night Michael premiered his new direction on The Des O' Connor Show. I lived in England at the time and spent the next day fielding questions from my puzzled colleagues about the berets and the shouting.... Edit: this is a joy to watch. Can't wait to see the whole show.
Blurb Writer (who also directed and edited the Impossible Tour video) thanks you. :)
As for the berets...to paraphrase a different Matt Smith, we wear berets now. Berets are cool.
SENSACIONAL, MARAVILHO.
Espectacular lo lindo lo que es desde Uruguay 🇺🇾
Amazing !!!
In loving memory of my 2 bffs who I loved
The best👏👑
the best 3time!
🇧🇷Aplausos! Michael Flatley muito bem representado! Mas a energia vital de Flatley e de sua Companhia são únicas. Por isso tão necessário replicar suas performances!👏👏👏
Это можно смотреть бескоонеечнооооо!!!
Wow 😍
ADORO
Amazing❤️❤️❤️
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Vs êtes vraiment magnifiques je vs aime énormément ainsi que tte la troupe
Awesome.
👏👏👏
Thank you for the thumbs up
I think Matt's the sexiest thing... we Irish girls love those gingers!
Skvelé 👍👌💖🌹🤩
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
вот зачем повторять один в один,этот же номер,тольо с Флетли интереснее же,просто перетанцевали
Anybody remember Caitlin from Take The Lead? "...I wish I could move like Morgan, she's like sex on hardwood..." This is kinda like that.
Is it just me, or did they speed it up compared to the originals?
The dancing speed is the same, but what you're picking up on is that the *editing* cadence is faster. The live dancing is incredibly high-octane, and the only way to properly preserve that in video format is to cut the video at the speed of the dancing itself. (The original 1996 video is cut in a very similar fashion.)
@@MichaelFlatleysLordoftheDance Ooooooh, gotcha. Makes sense, honestly. Thank you for explaining! Big fan of everything Lord of the Dance ❤❤
I thought so too. I dont really understand the explanation.
Here's the easiest way to explain it: count the seconds between camera cuts.
Go back and watch Warlords from the original 1996 video. David Mallet cut for *speed.* I don't have an exact calculation, but just from eyeballing it, the '96 Warlords has a camera cut roughly every 1.6 to 1.8 seconds or so. (And there are a lot of extremely short insert shots.)
Now contrast this to, for instance, the 2010 LOTD 3D version of Warlords. The editing cadence is much slower -- probably an average of somewhere around 3.6-4.0 seconds per cut.
The steps are exactly the same, danced at exactly the same speed -- but the *cadence* at which the video editing of those steps is presented to you is dramatically different. And for the 2020 Impossible Tour version of Warlords that you see here, we deliberately cut *faster* than ever before. If you count the cuts in this video, the camera is cutting on average about once per second. (It deliberately ebbs and flows with the pace of the action onstage, but averaged out it's about one second per cut.)
This has a dramatic effect on how your brain perceives what you're seeing. For ease of math, let's say that Warlords is three minutes long. That's 180 seconds. In the 2010 Warlords video, your brain was shown roughly 45 camera cuts; in this 2020 video, your brain is shown FOUR TIMES the number of camera cuts, which means your brain is having to work faster to stitch all the information together.
The challenge when cutting for speed is that you have to be extremely careful which shots you edit together. If you do it wrong, the brain can't keep up, like a speeding train derailing off the tracks. But if you do it right -- and the original 1996 video is a masterclass in speed editing -- the end result is that you really do capture the insane high-octane energy of what's happening on that stage.
Here's a fun little subliminal example: at roughly 2:33 in the video, as Matt's dancing, he points to his right, then his left, then down, then right, then left, then down again. Look carefully, and you'll notice that we deliberately cut to the camera he's pointing to, subliminally reinforcing his position of authority onstage by figuratively calling his shots. (And we deliberately break that camera rhythm on the last right-point, specifically to make your brain feel like things are starting to go too fast to keep up, making the fast climax of the number seem even speedier.)
There are other nuances to this as well. For instance, at 2:59 we do a rapid zoom-out, to simulate the effect of a shockwave hitting you at the end of the number. Then, after a few seconds of static camera angles to let you catch your breath, we do two rapid zoom-ins (in succession) on Matt's face at 3:04 and 3:05. Both of these zoom shots are slightly shaky, because the camera operators are manually adjusting the focus depth, and we chose them deliberately for that reason: instead of smooth, computer-controlled cameras, these manual adjustments convey the raw energy of the moment, making you feel like you're really there.
The irony of the story? All of this cinematic sleight-of-hand is very carefully designed to produce *exactly* the effect you just described: the feeling that this was somehow way faster than what you've seen before, but you can't quite put your finger on WHY it feels that way.
(Or, as the lads at RedLetterMedia like to say, "YOU might not have noticed -- but your *brain* did.")
Now, like a magician showing his audience how the illusion is performed, we're sharing exactly how we did it -- because this should deepen your appreciation for the level of craftsmanship that goes into every part of the Lord of the Dance experience, both onstage and onscreen. Team Lord works very, very hard to deliver experiences you just won't find anywhere else.
@@MichaelFlatleysLordoftheDance the honesty and transparency of you and your team is a rare masterpiece for the world to see and feel delighted. Then transcending and in respect to your creation you go even further as to explain and teach how you do it... now that’s a work of a genius with an exceptional intellect, creative power and natural ability. Gratitude!
Флетли круче❤
Is there anything 'The Doctor' can't do??
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Dude will hell be Michael flatley, but nice try...