After a morning spent revisiting the halls of Payson High School, where he filmed several scenes from “Footloose,” Kevin Bacon left the success of the school’s final prom up to the students — but not ...

Kevin Bacon stands in a circle of Payson High School cheerleaders during the filming of “Footloose” in 1983. Jill Hammond, three people to the left of Bacon, was a sophomore at the time. (Vicki Barnes ...

“Footloose,” which officially opens tonight at the Fulton, might seem like one of those fun dance shows, with nothing but high kicks, steps and crazy turns, along with some jazz hands thrown in. It’s ...

It's been 40 years since a group of Elmore City students fought and won the right to dance at their prom. “I can remember it was really hard to dance. There were so many cameras and TV Cameras,” ...

The film is based on the real life dance ban of Elmore City, Oklahoma, in the 19th and 20th century. The film stars Kevin Bacon as Ren McCromack, a newcomer who tries to change the law. To recognize ...

Toes are tapping, feet are shuffling, and boots are bouncing in the opening to the new "Footloose." Kids are dancing and frolicking, maybe even having a few beers to the title song of a 1984 movie, a ...

If you have ever been to a cross-country race with the Emerald Ridge High School team, of Puyallup, Washington, you may have witnessed their unique prerace ritual—line dancing to “Footloose.” It all ...

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose—starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross—along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's-put-on ...

The country-twang remake of "Footloose" strives to give us a more down-home experience than the original film. But is a more authentic "Footloose" — with less dancing, yet — really the way to go? The ...

Don't look now, but Hollywood is currently in the process of taking every movie you ever loved and making it again, only dumber, flashier, and probably starring Taylor Lautner. One of the latest ...

There actually was a time when rock and roll and the happy gyrations of teens dancing to the music were considered sinful and a sure precursor to every kind of sleazy and drug-hazed sex, a time when ...

Small towns afraid of dancing and alternative lifestyles (such as … enjoying dancing, I guess) have provided a fair amount of fodder for musicals. “The Prom,” the sweet-and-snarky musical comedy about ...