Dancing Confession

Travolta stunned audiences in 1977 with his acting and dancing abilities in the hit movie, “Saturday Night Fever.” Although Travolta clearly had a natural talent, he had to work hard and fine-tune it so he could become a killer dancer. For this Travolta undertook intense training for nine months at a dance school. He had been inspired by the film “Soul Train” and so wanted to bring influences from that into his dancing.

Speaking about it at the time, Travolta told Vanity Fair magazine that he preferred “black dancing than white dancing” and that he had tried to bring elements of the Soul Train atmosphere into “Saturday Night Fever.”