Tag: rasta thomas

Bad Boys on NBC's "America's Got Talent"

If you’ve been following NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” this season, you know that dancers are having a tough time. Out of 11 dance acts in the quarterfinals, only two are headed to the semifinals: Blue Journey, a multimedia dance piece created by Dutch choreographer David Middendorp, and Baila Conmigo, a Latin dance company from New […]

A Ballet Rebel's Next Move

It seems like the ballet world always has one or two James Dean-y bad boys, super-talented men who buck convention—not always the easiest thing to do in ballet—and do things their own way. Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carlos Acosta, Rasta Thomas (who founded, fittingly, the Bad Boys of Dance): They’re all amazing performers who, thanks […]

Happy 15th Birthday, DS!

In honor of Dance Spirit’s 15th birthday, we decided to check in with a few of our favorite past cover stars. They wrote to us about how being on the cover changed their careers. Memories! Brian Friedman, October 2003 “When I was asked to be on the cover, I was thrilled. I felt like I’d […]

Out of this World

Comets soar across the stage’s video backdrop to intense orchestral music that sounds like it’s from a superhero action scene. One by one, seven tap guys hoof and slide through the virtual galaxy, creating rhythms of cosmic proportions. If they look like Bad Boys, that’s because they are: Tap Stars: A Dance Revolution is the […]