There is only one show in the world where you can see Michael Flatley's legendary Feet of Flames solo, the most high-profile #IrishDance solo in the world: LORD OF THE DANCE.

Aside from Michael, only four people in the world can perform the Feet of Flames solo. Three of them are in the current Team Lord New Generation troupe. And one of those three -- Matt Smith -- now has the distinction of being the first person other than Michael to be commercially filmed performing the solo.

If you are an Irish dancer, there is no greater challenge to aspire to than this: the lone dancer onstage with no music, no backing dancers, no outrageous costuming, and literally an entire *stadium* watching you.

Let's be very clear about this: *very* few entertainers -- of any kind, in any type of show format -- can get an entire stadium on its feet.

This is important because people are forever agonizing over what makes a great dancer. The answer is shockingly simple: a *great* dancer -- a great entertainer of any type -- is one you'd pay your *own* money to see.

That's it. That's literally it. In the real world, everything else is irrelevant. The only litmus test that matters is whether or not you'd actually pay out of your own pocket to see someone perform.

Which brings us to Matt Smith. Matt's never bothered much with building a huge social media audience. He doesn't have umpteen-gazillion online followers. He doesn't make flavor-of-the-week videos. But here's the twist: there's a *huge* difference between entertaining people online for free with two-minute flashes and being able to entertain someone who's paid real money to see you in person for two *hours.*

Matt Smith is one of the greatest Irish dancers in the world because for the last ten *years* he's been getting paying audiences on their feet at the end of a two-hour show. He can go out onstage by himself, rip an ungodly difficult solo in half, and get a stadium to *roar.*

Candidly, there aren't a whole lot of people who can make a similar claim.

This is why Matt is literally the poster boy for Lord of the Dance's new show, 25 YEARS OF STANDING OVATIONS, selling tickets now for its 2022 UK tour. Never before in the history of the show has anyone's likeness ever been used on official promotional materials other than Michael Flatley's; now, for the first time, you see a member of the New Generation picking up the title belt and carrying on the tradition: Matt Smith.

Put simply: if Matt Smith isn't on your shortlist of the most *exciting* professional Irish dancers in the world, then your list is wrong. Change it.

Make no mistake: Matt Smith is the Lord of the Dance. Now watch him completely blow away a 15,000-seat stadium.

This is Feet of Flames: The Impossible Tour.

Turn up your volume for this one. This is the Feet of Flames Solo, performed by Lord of the Dance Matt Smith.

And this is the New Generation. Buy tickets to see them live in 2022 across the UK.

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