GretchenStar Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 I was watching So You Think You Can Dance and Rasta Thomas's Bad Boys of Dance performed a piece. I thought it was entertaining (was the female dancer Adrienne Canterna?) so I decided to look up the company on Wikipedia and found the entry for Rasta Thomas. It says that he was a principal dancer at ABT in 1998. But he was born in 1981 - is that possible, principal at age 17?! The Wikipedia article must be wrong - right? For some reason I associate him with ABT Studio company (or ABT II?) but I could just be making this up (I don't recall why I think he was part of the studio company). Any credible sources/references to fact-check? I've seen a couple of articles online, but they all say he was a principal at ABT in 1998. (This is not by any means an attack of some sort on Rasta Thomas - it's just that articles on Wikipedia sometimes have incorrect info and it's incumbent on us, the educated masses, to correct it, right? ) Quote Link to comment
sgmca Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Here is a link to his bio on his website.. Probably a little more reliable than Wikipedia.. ;) http://www.rastathomas.com/#/directors/4524114192 Quote Link to comment
stinger784 Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Rasta was with ABT as a Guest Principal Dancer in the mid 2000's. Just goes to show you how unreliable Wikipedia can be at times. Rasta and I know each other since about 1996, so I can assure you he was not with ABT in 98. Quote Link to comment
Momof3darlings Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Yes the female dancer was Adrienne. Quote Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted August 5, 2011 Administrators Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 I would have liked it a lot better without the female. The guys alone were much stronger than the parts with the female. The ending of that piece fizzled a bit for me. It was strong until that last section. Quote Link to comment
danceuntiltheworldends Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 Didn't know he performed on that show! I will have to look it up. I remember him being in some dance magazines in the late 90's and early 2000's - my teenage crush when everyone else was into JTT . Quote Link to comment
Guest BeBallet Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Adrienne is Rasta's wife They kind of perform together or alone, my family knows them personally. Quote Link to comment
Clara 76 Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Welcome to Ballet Talk for Dancers, BeBallet!!! You can't blame us for preferring to slobber at- uh, I mean "watch" Rasta dance rather than his lovely wife, right???? She is a fine dancer in her own right, who just happens to be married to a gorgeous dance-hunk, who happens to be ah-mazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky she! Quote Link to comment
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