"Lord of the Dance" returns to Mayo Civic Center Dec. 6 after an unusually long -- for this troupe, anyway -- absence. In 2003, Michael Flatley's Irish dance show stopped at the civic center twice ...

Maybe you saw him spinning and leaping across the stage when one of his shows came to Australia. Maybe your family owned recordings of his performances on VHS to revisit the magic over and over again.

“I mean, honestly,” he says. “You’re on stage, at the front, and you’ve got 30, 40 dancers behind you … it’s the sound of an army. It’s as loud as an airplane, every one of those dancers tapping as ...