Riverdance: The New Show (1996) - full transcript
Watch this extraordinary early Riverdance performance, captured live at Radio City Music Hall in the heart of New York City.
(light music)
- [Narrator] Out of the dark we came.
Out of the sea where the long wave broke on the shore.
As the day broke and the night rolled back,
there we stood on the land we would call home.
Out of the dark we came, out of the night.
The first of many mornings in this new place.
When the sun rolled back the mist,
we rose like a strong wave on land.
Now we were the people of this place.
What burns through the rain and mist?
What banishes dark?
What makes the children straight and bright?
What makes the mountains sharp?
The sun is our lord and father.
Bright face of the gate of day.
Comfort of home, cattle, and crop.
Lord of the morning, lord of the day.
(upbeat music)
Lifting our hearts, we sing his praise,
dance in his healing rays.
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(audience cheering) (upbeat music)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(light music)
♪ Where the river foams
♪ And surges to the sea
♪ Silver figures rise to find me ♪
♪ Wise and as daring
♪ Following the heart's cry
♪ I am that deep pool
♪ I am that dark spring
♪ Warm with a mystery
♪ I may reveal to you
♪ In time holds the heart's key ♪
♪ Key to everything
♪ Love makes the heart flower
♪ Flowers into a deep desire
♪ Passion in the heart's fire
♪ Passion and desire
♪ See the eagle rise above the open plain ♪
♪ Golden in the morning air
♪ Weaving and soaring
♪ Watchful and protecting
♪ I am your shelter
♪ I will enfold you
♪ Warm with a mystery I may reveal to you ♪
♪ In time holds the heart's key ♪
♪ Key to everything is
♪ Love makes the heart
♪ Flower into a deep desire
♪ Passion in the heart's fire
♪ Passion and desire
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(audience clapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
- [Narrator] Thunder and lightning batter the rocks.
The winds howl and great storms break on the forest.
Scattered the herds like grain.
Fire leaps from dark to dark,
fear and anger leap to meet it.
We will not go down.
We will not be beaten down like grain.
(thunder rumbling) (dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(men hollering)
(hands clapping) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(men yelling)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic guitar music)
(light guitar music)
(light music)
(clicking)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
♪ Hear my cry in my hungering search for you ♪
♪ Taste my breath on the wind
♪ See the sky as it mirrors my colors ♪
♪ Hints and whispers begin
♪ I am living to nourish you, cherish you ♪
♪ I am pulsing the blood in your veins ♪
♪ Feel the magic and power of surrender to life ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ Every finger is touching, searching ♪
♪ Until your secrets come out
♪ In the dance as it endlessly circles ♪
♪ I linger close to your mouth
♪ I am living to nourish you, cherish you ♪
♪ I am pulsing the blood in your veins ♪
♪ Feel the magic and power of surrender to life ♪
(singing in foreign language)
(upbeat music)
(dramatic drumming music)
(upbeat music)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music) (feet tapping)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(upbeat music)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(light dramatic music)
- [Narrator] No life is forever.
We found a fort here, we loved and died here.
Wave after wave, the sea of time beats against every shore.
Whole generations lift now to depart.
The land has failed us.
The dark soldiers appear against us.
In dance and song we gift and mourn our children.
They carry us over the ocean in dance and song.
(upbeat music)
(people cheering) (people clapping)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
♪ How can the small flowers grow ♪
♪ If the wild winds blow
♪ And the cold snow is all around ♪
♪ Where will the frail birds fly ♪
♪ If their homes on high
♪ Have been torn down to the ground ♪
♪ Lift the wings that carry me away from here and ♪
♪ Fill the sail that breaks the line to home ♪
♪ When I'm miles and miles apart from you ♪
♪ I'm beside you when I think of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ How can a tree stand tall
♪ If the rain won't fall
♪ To wash its branches down
♪ How can the heart survive
♪ Can it stay alive
♪ If its love's denied for long ♪
♪ Lift the wings that carry me away from here and ♪
♪ Fill the sail that breaks the line to home ♪
♪ When I'm miles and miles apart from you ♪
♪ I'm beside you when I think of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ And I'm with you as I dream of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ And a song will bring me near to you ♪
(singing in a foreign language)
(people cheering) (upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
- [Narrator] Dawn and the ships are leaving.
A lover's grief is lifting on the tide,
and hearts too young for sorrow torn asunder.
The cruel ocean's deep and dark and wild.
(audience clapping)
(light music)
Out of the night, we come.
Out of the sea.
On a new shore, lights blaze in the dawn.
Motherless, fatherless, torn from our homes.
We bring tears to this land, we must make our own.
♪ In the deep night
♪ From a dark space
♪ I hear voices calling out in heartache ♪
♪ They are wounded
♪ They are broken
♪ But their spirit rises when awoken ♪
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ In their dreamtimes
♪ In their visions
♪ How they always hunger after freedom ♪
♪ Every hard load
♪ Every dark road
♪ Leads them on to reach a new horizon ♪
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
♪ When will our hope begin
♪ Lord, what of the promise you made ♪
♪ When will it come
♪ We have waited for the time
♪ For the truth to live
♪ When justice will shine
♪ Too long those hands of greed ♪
♪ Held on and made us bleed
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, will it come
♪ Lord, what of our children
♪ Will they always depend on you ♪
♪ Lord, why are they scattered and torn ♪
♪ And their young hearts in chains ♪
♪ How they hunger for liberty
♪ Feel their hatred of poverty
♪ Let their spirit rise, soaring free ♪
♪ Lord, let it come
♪ Our day will come
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
♪ When will our hope begin
♪ Lord, what of the promise you made ♪
♪ When will it come
♪ We have waited for the time
♪ For the truth to live
♪ When justice will shine
♪ Too long those hands of greed ♪
♪ Held on and made us bleed
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, will it come
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, let it come
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Tall and straight, my mother taught me.
This is how we dance.
Tall and straight, my father taught me.
This is how we dance.
Battering feet on the city street.
In pools of light on street corners.
The proud, bright carnival of the poor.
(upbeat jazz music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat jazz music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat jazz music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music) (crowd cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience clapping)
(audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(singing in foreign language)
(singing in foreign language) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light drumming music)
- [Narrator] Cry of an infant, heartbeat of the world.
Storm against ship, heartbeat of the world.
Heel against floor and wave upon shore.
Heartbeat of the world.
Sigh of a lover, heartbeat of the world.
Cry of a mother, heartbeat of the world.
Oh, unstopped heartbeat of the world.
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(audience clapping rhythmically)
- Yeah!
Woo!
Woo!
Yeah!
(upbeat music)
Hey!
Yeah!
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
Come on, guys, yeah!
Yes!
Come on!
Go!
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
♪ High in the sky through the clouds and rain ♪
♪ Every familiar field seems like an old friend ♪
♪ When every hand that you shake is like a warm embrace ♪
♪ Could only be one sweet place ♪
♪ Home and the heartland
♪ Sing out your songs and
♪ Ring out your stories and rhymes ♪
♪ Weave from your dreams
♪ The mystical dances that lead us to ♪
♪ Bind in heart
♪ And mind
♪ As we circle the world with our wandering airs ♪
♪ Gathering here and there, leaving behind our share ♪
♪ Like the leaves in the wind, they are blown along ♪
♪ Melodies rising from
♪ Home and the heartland
♪ Sing out your songs and
♪ Ring out your stories and rhymes ♪
♪ Weave from your dreams
♪ The mystical dances that lead us to ♪
♪ Bind in heart
♪ And mind
(audience clapping)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(singing in foreign language)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(men shouting)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
- [Narrator] Out of the dark we came.
Out of the sea where the long wave broke on the shore.
As the day broke and the night rolled back,
there we stood on the land we would call home.
Out of the dark we came, out of the night.
The first of many mornings in this new place.
When the sun rolled back the mist,
we rose like a strong wave on land.
Now we were the people of this place.
What burns through the rain and mist?
What banishes dark?
What makes the children straight and bright?
What makes the mountains sharp?
The sun is our lord and father.
Bright face of the gate of day.
Comfort of home, cattle, and crop.
Lord of the morning, lord of the day.
(upbeat music)
Lifting our hearts, we sing his praise,
dance in his healing rays.
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(audience cheering) (upbeat music)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(light music)
♪ Where the river foams
♪ And surges to the sea
♪ Silver figures rise to find me ♪
♪ Wise and as daring
♪ Following the heart's cry
♪ I am that deep pool
♪ I am that dark spring
♪ Warm with a mystery
♪ I may reveal to you
♪ In time holds the heart's key ♪
♪ Key to everything
♪ Love makes the heart flower
♪ Flowers into a deep desire
♪ Passion in the heart's fire
♪ Passion and desire
♪ See the eagle rise above the open plain ♪
♪ Golden in the morning air
♪ Weaving and soaring
♪ Watchful and protecting
♪ I am your shelter
♪ I will enfold you
♪ Warm with a mystery I may reveal to you ♪
♪ In time holds the heart's key ♪
♪ Key to everything is
♪ Love makes the heart
♪ Flower into a deep desire
♪ Passion in the heart's fire
♪ Passion and desire
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(audience clapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
- [Narrator] Thunder and lightning batter the rocks.
The winds howl and great storms break on the forest.
Scattered the herds like grain.
Fire leaps from dark to dark,
fear and anger leap to meet it.
We will not go down.
We will not be beaten down like grain.
(thunder rumbling) (dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(men hollering)
(hands clapping) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(men yelling)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic guitar music)
(light guitar music)
(light music)
(clicking)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
♪ Hear my cry in my hungering search for you ♪
♪ Taste my breath on the wind
♪ See the sky as it mirrors my colors ♪
♪ Hints and whispers begin
♪ I am living to nourish you, cherish you ♪
♪ I am pulsing the blood in your veins ♪
♪ Feel the magic and power of surrender to life ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ Every finger is touching, searching ♪
♪ Until your secrets come out
♪ In the dance as it endlessly circles ♪
♪ I linger close to your mouth
♪ I am living to nourish you, cherish you ♪
♪ I am pulsing the blood in your veins ♪
♪ Feel the magic and power of surrender to life ♪
(singing in foreign language)
(upbeat music)
(dramatic drumming music)
(upbeat music)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic drumming music) (feet tapping)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(upbeat music)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(light dramatic music)
- [Narrator] No life is forever.
We found a fort here, we loved and died here.
Wave after wave, the sea of time beats against every shore.
Whole generations lift now to depart.
The land has failed us.
The dark soldiers appear against us.
In dance and song we gift and mourn our children.
They carry us over the ocean in dance and song.
(upbeat music)
(people cheering) (people clapping)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
♪ How can the small flowers grow ♪
♪ If the wild winds blow
♪ And the cold snow is all around ♪
♪ Where will the frail birds fly ♪
♪ If their homes on high
♪ Have been torn down to the ground ♪
♪ Lift the wings that carry me away from here and ♪
♪ Fill the sail that breaks the line to home ♪
♪ When I'm miles and miles apart from you ♪
♪ I'm beside you when I think of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ How can a tree stand tall
♪ If the rain won't fall
♪ To wash its branches down
♪ How can the heart survive
♪ Can it stay alive
♪ If its love's denied for long ♪
♪ Lift the wings that carry me away from here and ♪
♪ Fill the sail that breaks the line to home ♪
♪ When I'm miles and miles apart from you ♪
♪ I'm beside you when I think of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ And I'm with you as I dream of you ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ And a song will bring me near to you ♪
(singing in a foreign language)
(people cheering) (upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
- [Narrator] Dawn and the ships are leaving.
A lover's grief is lifting on the tide,
and hearts too young for sorrow torn asunder.
The cruel ocean's deep and dark and wild.
(audience clapping)
(light music)
Out of the night, we come.
Out of the sea.
On a new shore, lights blaze in the dawn.
Motherless, fatherless, torn from our homes.
We bring tears to this land, we must make our own.
♪ In the deep night
♪ From a dark space
♪ I hear voices calling out in heartache ♪
♪ They are wounded
♪ They are broken
♪ But their spirit rises when awoken ♪
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ In their dreamtimes
♪ In their visions
♪ How they always hunger after freedom ♪
♪ Every hard load
♪ Every dark road
♪ Leads them on to reach a new horizon ♪
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
♪ When will our hope begin
♪ Lord, what of the promise you made ♪
♪ When will it come
♪ We have waited for the time
♪ For the truth to live
♪ When justice will shine
♪ Too long those hands of greed ♪
♪ Held on and made us bleed
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, will it come
♪ Lord, what of our children
♪ Will they always depend on you ♪
♪ Lord, why are they scattered and torn ♪
♪ And their young hearts in chains ♪
♪ How they hunger for liberty
♪ Feel their hatred of poverty
♪ Let their spirit rise, soaring free ♪
♪ Lord, let it come
♪ Our day will come
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
♪ When will our hope begin
♪ Lord, what of the promise you made ♪
♪ When will it come
♪ We have waited for the time
♪ For the truth to live
♪ When justice will shine
♪ Too long those hands of greed ♪
♪ Held on and made us bleed
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, will it come
♪ When will your people breathe ♪
♪ Lord, let it come
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Lord, where is our freedom
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Tall and straight, my mother taught me.
This is how we dance.
Tall and straight, my father taught me.
This is how we dance.
Battering feet on the city street.
In pools of light on street corners.
The proud, bright carnival of the poor.
(upbeat jazz music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat jazz music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat jazz music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music) (crowd cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(light music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping)
(audience clapping)
(audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(singing in foreign language)
(singing in foreign language) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light drumming music)
- [Narrator] Cry of an infant, heartbeat of the world.
Storm against ship, heartbeat of the world.
Heel against floor and wave upon shore.
Heartbeat of the world.
Sigh of a lover, heartbeat of the world.
Cry of a mother, heartbeat of the world.
Oh, unstopped heartbeat of the world.
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
(audience clapping rhythmically)
- Yeah!
Woo!
Woo!
Yeah!
(upbeat music)
Hey!
Yeah!
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
Come on, guys, yeah!
Yes!
Come on!
Go!
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(light music)
♪ High in the sky through the clouds and rain ♪
♪ Every familiar field seems like an old friend ♪
♪ When every hand that you shake is like a warm embrace ♪
♪ Could only be one sweet place ♪
♪ Home and the heartland
♪ Sing out your songs and
♪ Ring out your stories and rhymes ♪
♪ Weave from your dreams
♪ The mystical dances that lead us to ♪
♪ Bind in heart
♪ And mind
♪ As we circle the world with our wandering airs ♪
♪ Gathering here and there, leaving behind our share ♪
♪ Like the leaves in the wind, they are blown along ♪
♪ Melodies rising from
♪ Home and the heartland
♪ Sing out your songs and
♪ Ring out your stories and rhymes ♪
♪ Weave from your dreams
♪ The mystical dances that lead us to ♪
♪ Bind in heart
♪ And mind
(audience clapping)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(singing in foreign language)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
♪ Yes, they may be poor in birth ♪
♪ But yes, how great each one is worth ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
♪ Heal their hearts
♪ Feed their souls
♪ Their lives can be golden if your love enfolds ♪
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(feet tapping)
(men shouting)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music) (feet tapping)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping) (audience cheering)