At a packed studio in Louisville, LaVelle Smith shared his mastery of the “Thriller” dance with the Terpsichore Dance Company. LaVelle, who spent two decades at Jackson’s side, passed down the exact steps he learned from the King of Pop himself.
“Michael taught it to me, so I just teach it the way he taught it to me. All of the little details, all of the little nuances, I try to share that with them,” LaVelle told WAVE.
This collaboration with LaVelle has been an annual tradition at Terpsichore Dance Company for the past ten years, but the studio’s history with “Thriller” started all the way back in 1998, when dancers learned the legendary choreography by watching videos…