--- description: Kevin Bacon is still dancing, thirty years since he starred in the 1984 classic Footloose. title: Watch: Kevin Bacon Recreates Footloose on The Tonight Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch: Kevin Bacon Busts a Move on _The Tonight Show_  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 22, 2014 6:43 PM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 22, 2014 6:43 PM CUT Kevin Bacon is still dancing, thirty years after he starred in the 1984 movie _Footloose_. A guest on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_, Bacon recreated his moves from the beloved 1980s pic, after Fallon declared that dancing on the show was illegal. “Dancing is illegal?” said an upset Bacon, in a prerecorded sketch shown after the star of _The Following_ “refused” to come out on stage. “This is the Tonight Show. There has to be dancing.” And there was. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/34473/watch-kevin-bacon-busts-a-move-on-the-tonight-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/34473/watch-kevin-bacon-busts-a-move-on-the-tonight-show/"},"headline":"Watch: Kevin Bacon Busts a Move on The Tonight Show","datePublished":"2014-03-22T18:43:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:02.887Z","description":"After host Jimmy Fallon declared that dancing on his show was illegal, actor Kevin Bacon kicked up his shoes all over again in a homage to Footloose, 30 years after the 1980s movie rocketed him to stardom","url":"https://time.com/34473/watch-kevin-bacon-busts-a-move-on-the-tonight-show/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/34473/watch-kevin-bacon-busts-a-move-on-the-tonight-show/","name":"Watch: Kevin Bacon Busts a Move on The Tonight Show"}}]}] ```