And the Lion King is just Hamlet!
This is definitely interesting, but I know Cab Calloway called the move the Buzz before MJ adapted and re-imagined the moonwalk. I think the lean is completely his and, of course, the way MJ pulled off his moves were on a completely other level.
This is definitely interesting, but I know Cab Calloway called the move the Buzz before MJ adapted and re-imagined the moonwalk. I think the lean is completely his and, of course, the way MJ pulled off his moves were on a completely other level.
"MJ adapted and re-imagined the moonwalk."
MJ had the best professional private dance teachers in the world. I wouldn't give him credit for re-imagining any dance moves without strong evidence.
That said - he executed the moves probably better than anybody.
MJ had the best professional private dance teachers in the world. I wouldn't give him credit for re-imagining any dance moves without strong evidence.
That said - he executed the moves probably better than anybody.
So basically being learned in something means you can't take any credit for being awesome? Heh.
I didn't see anyone doing any of the moonwalk or from side to side, like MJ had done, nor the spinning and staying on his toes.
How about one of his choreographers?
"And then to see him take what we were doing and then take it into his arena — take it into the next stratosphere — it was like, 'Wow,'" Daniel says.
He called Jackson's way of hopping on his tiptoes and seemingly hanging in space "mind blowing."
"He pulls different things from different people, from Sammy Davis, Jr., a bit of Elvis, a bit of James Brown, some Bob Fosse, Fred Astaire, what's happening on the streets," Daniel says. "So he's a combination of all of those things and he mixes them all up."
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105986636
How about one of his choreographers?
"And then to see him take what we were doing and then take it into his arena — take it into the next stratosphere — it was like, 'Wow,'" Daniel says.
He called Jackson's way of hopping on his tiptoes and seemingly hanging in space "mind blowing."
"He pulls different things from different people, from Sammy Davis, Jr., a bit of Elvis, a bit of James Brown, some Bob Fosse, Fred Astaire, what's happening on the streets," Daniel says. "So he's a combination of all of those things and he mixes them all up."
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105986636
"I didn't see anyone doing any of the moonwalk "
I saw at least two maybe three. Maybe watch again ?
"nor the spinning"
You mean the pirouettes ? That's a pretty old ballet move.
I saw at least two maybe three. Maybe watch again ?
"nor the spinning"
You mean the pirouettes ? That's a pretty old ballet move.
I left off the 'moonwalk in a circle.' Nobody did anything like that before MJ. Nor the moonwalk from side-to-side, or ending up perched on his toes.
But again - his own choreographer- Jeffrey Daniel from above - talks about MJ taking influences from a myriad of sources and putting his own flair on it.
A different choreographer and Broadway dancer, Jared Grimes, has said that, “Michael Jackson was really good at doing the robot style and isolations. So he incorporated that into the moonwalk.”
Seems to be re-imagining it and putting his own flair on it to me and two well respected choreographers.
But again - his own choreographer- Jeffrey Daniel from above - talks about MJ taking influences from a myriad of sources and putting his own flair on it.
A different choreographer and Broadway dancer, Jared Grimes, has said that, “Michael Jackson was really good at doing the robot style and isolations. So he incorporated that into the moonwalk.”
Seems to be re-imagining it and putting his own flair on it to me and two well respected choreographers.
@chummer
A different choreographer and Broadway dancer, Jared Grimes, has said that, “Michael Jackson was really good at doing the robot style and isolations. So he incorporated that into the moonwalk.”
Here is MJ's dance teacher who taught him all that. His name is Poppin Taco.
Taco learned it in the streets of LA.
www.urbanstrides.com/2011/03/17/dance-like-michael-jackson/
A different choreographer and Broadway dancer, Jared Grimes, has said that, “Michael Jackson was really good at doing the robot style and isolations. So he incorporated that into the moonwalk.”
Here is MJ's dance teacher who taught him all that. His name is Poppin Taco.
Taco learned it in the streets of LA.
www.urbanstrides.com/2011/03/17/dance-like-michael-jackson/
Nothing here contradicts that MJ put his own flavor on things.
Jeffrey Daniel is the choreographer of Bad and Smooth Criminal, and taught MJ the moonwalk, not Pop N Taco, by the way.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1907409_1907413_1907560,00.html
Another Daniel quote:
We first worked with him in 1980, but he did not do the moonwalk publicly until 1983 [on Motown's 25th-anniversary TV special]. And after he did it, he asked, "How was it?" And I said, "Why did you wait so long?" He said, "Well, it still didn't come out right." I'm like, Huh? This is the performance that totally blew everyone away — and he said something didn't come out right. Whatever was going on in his mind, we would never know it. We all know that it was a mind-blowing performance, and it just took him to another level.
Jeffrey Daniel is the choreographer of Bad and Smooth Criminal, and taught MJ the moonwalk, not Pop N Taco, by the way.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1907409_1907413_1907560,00.html
Another Daniel quote:
We first worked with him in 1980, but he did not do the moonwalk publicly until 1983 [on Motown's 25th-anniversary TV special]. And after he did it, he asked, "How was it?" And I said, "Why did you wait so long?" He said, "Well, it still didn't come out right." I'm like, Huh? This is the performance that totally blew everyone away — and he said something didn't come out right. Whatever was going on in his mind, we would never know it. We all know that it was a mind-blowing performance, and it just took him to another level.
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