‘A lifelong dream’: Morgan Bullock, now performing with Riverdance, takes center stage

Millions of people viewed Virginia Commonwealth University student Morgan Bullock’s TikTok videos last year choreographing Irish dance moves to hip-hop hits like Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Savage,” featuring Beyonce. Those posts garnered recognition from Beyonce’s mom and admiration from lovers of Irish dance and Ireland’s head of government. But they also brought out critics coming to grips with the fact that Bullock is a Black American who has embraced Irish dance.

Now the 22-year-old School of Education student and longtime Irish dance competitor is a member of the touring cast of Riverdance, a theatrical show of traditional Irish dance in conversation with other dance forms that is currently crisscrossing the United Kingdom. The Midlothian, Virginia, native told a BBC interviewer it is the ultimate honor for her as a dancer to be part of Riverdance’s 25th-anniversary tour.

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