Biography

Skeeter Rabbit (born: Stephen Mark Nicholas) was a street and hip-hop dancer. He was teamed with ballet dancer Ann Marie DeAngelo in a 1989 Sesame Street segment (directed and choreographed by Toni Basil) where they perform a dance routine, but the frame freezes whenever the word STOP comes on. (First: Episode 2600) A specialist in the dancing styles of popping and boogaloo, Nicholas was a member of the influential street dance crew the Electric Boogaloos. He was part of the dance troupe on David Bowie's 1987 Glass Spider Tour and in the video for Bowie's song "Time Will Crawl" (both with Basil as choreographer). Skeeter also worked in music videos with Thomas Dolby, Talking Heads, Madonna, Usher, Michael Jackson, and Chaka Khan.