These days Kevin Bacon spends his time battling serial killers, but 30 years ago he was dancing his ass off in Footloose, and when Jimmy Fallon banned dancing at The Tonight Show, Bacon refused to let that stand. What followed was an epic dance tribute to the classic 80s movie.

Bacon performed an amazingly choreographed dance to “Never” from the film, only to be joined by an ensemble for the titular song that stormed the Tonight Show stage for a crazy dance party.

All in all, the segment was six degrees of awesome.

Watch below, via NBC:

[photo via screengrab]

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