Here's a review by Sarah Kaufman; which was printed in
The Washington Post.
Before "Lord of the Dance," before "Riverdance," there
was the Trinity Irish Dance Company,
formed in Chicago in 1990. The company grew out of the
Trinity Academy of Irish Dancing, whose Irish American director,
Mark Howard, decided it was high time to turn
traditional Irish hardshoe dancing -previously a competitive sport-
on its ear. His company touts itself as the first to do "progressive"
Irish dance, freeing it from the rigid-torso line dancing of the past.
Still, a Celtic thread runs through the program, which includes
traditional displays as well as contemporary numbers...
"We're a nightmare for most sound people," says dancer Sheila Ryan.
"We mike the stage as loud as we can and pound really hard."
