{"id":56730,"date":"2025-10-02T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/56730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:50:13","slug":"breandan-de-gallai-on-performance-anxiety-grief-and-succeeding-michael-flatley-as-the-star-of-riverdance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/56730\/","title":{"rendered":"Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed on performance anxiety, grief and succeeding Michael Flatley as the star of &#8216;Riverdance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of the premiere of his RT\u00c9 documentary, Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed talks about falling in love with dance, coming out as gay and losing his partner of 16 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed (centre front) with his dance company, \u00c9riu. Photo: Maurice Gunney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/breandan de gallai 58.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed (centre front) with his dance company, \u00c9riu. Photo: Maurice Gunney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Despite a lifetime of performing on stage, Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed still experiences impostor syndrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Donegal dancer was part of the original performance of Riverdance at Eurovision in 1994, performed with the show for more than nine years, and has continued working as a dancer and choreographer in the years since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the premiere of his RT\u00c9 documentary, Breand\u00e1n de Galla\u00ed talks about falling in love with dance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15763,93,61,60,2050,6085],"class_list":["post-56730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-darragh-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-flatley","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}