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Michael Flatley, best known for his hit show Riverdance, has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer.
A post on the Irish dancer and director’s Instagram account said: “Michael Flatley has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. He has undergone surgery and is in the care of an excellent team of doctors.”
His team, which showed a photo of Flatley looking out to sea, said no further comment would be made and asked people for their prayers and well wishes.
Flatley rose to prominence after a seven-minute performance during the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. He then expanded on to his stage show, Riverdance, which combined traditional Irish music and dance. It premiered at the Point Theatre, Dublin, in 1996.
He went on to create stage shows including Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames and Celtic Tiger. Lord of the Dance has a record 21 consecutive performances at Wembley Arena. At the time, in the late 1990s, Flatley’s legs were insured for £25m.
The dancer retired due to injury after a performance in Las Vegas on St. Patrick’s Day in March 2017. Lord of the Dance performed a 25th anniversary tour in 2022 to raise money for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Flatley had previously developed skin cancer after being diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2003, after a viewer spotted him on MTV. He has previously raised money for cancer charities.
Speaking about his cancer treatment, he told the Irish Independent: “It was noticed by pure serendipity. I had never noticed it before… It can be a scary place to be.”
The 64-year-old was born in Chicago to Irish parents who immigrated to the US in 1947. He went on to take Irish dancing lessons in the city, then toured with Irish folk group The Chieftains.
Flatley has raised money for cancer research and has ties to the cancer charity Breakthrough, where he was an ambassador for an initiative in 2021 that created a virtual Irish ‘boycott’ 33 of 200,000 people representing cancer survivors in Ireland.
Since retiring, he has continued to write, direct, finance and star in a spy thriller, Blackbird, in 2018, which was released to cinemas last year.
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