Group set for Got To Dance semi-final
Barbados-born Rihanna’s Rude Boy will be the music for Galway group Mystic Force in Sky 1’s Got To Dance semi-final on Sunday.
The group, which formed in a dance society in the National University Ireland Galway in 2006, flies out today for rehearsals for the show at Pinewood Studios outside London.
They say they aim to put contemporary world music to Irish dancing to bring it beyond anything Riverdance or Lord of The Dance did before.
Special support pub parties have already been arranged in their Galway home city to watch Sunday’s performance.
Mystic Force already got three gold stars from the judges when they managed to intertwine Irish dance and Michael Jackson’s moonwalk.
Contest host Davina McCall and other celebrities scoured Ireland and Britain to whittle down 5,000 entrants in a search for the 2011 best dance act..
Mystic Force is run by Mark McCole, 24, and his sister Claire, 27, who also run a dance school in Galway.
Their troupe aims to donate £50,000 of the £250,000 prize-money to cancer research, and more money to a local Galway charity, if they win.
Mark said: “The standard is unbelievably high in this series. We have given blood, sweat and tears since December to get it together and we are delighted to be just one step away from the final.”
One of his troupe of 11 in the show, Gemma Grealish, 23, from Claregalway, Co. Galway, said: “A few of our group have experienced cancer in their families, either through their parents or other relatives. We are so keen to win to donate something to cancer research.”
