He's The Greatest Dancer
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This is not the best compilation of his incredible dancing but it still takes the breath away. There's a tiny foot movement at 2:36 that's such a throw away move but so brilliant. Not a grandstand move, just a little something for him. For me, that's what made him unique.
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lol...you're completely right about 2:36. Such a small thing, yet somehow so awesome. Probably because I'm sure I'd break my ankle trying it. :D
Here's another vid with a lot of older footage of his footwork. Check him out at about 1:50 really breaking it down!
I really hope the guy got to feel good while he was making these moves and cheering up others. The number of smiles he's been responsible for in my lifetime is countless.
I know... I know.. Thriller was my favorite album of his, and I enjoyed watching him dance as well. I played that album until it wore out.. and I bought another one.
He was so fabulous that Weird Al and his "Fat" video and "Eat it"..... was in a weird way a compliment to MJ.
I agree Robin.. he made me smile too...
The champion of dance his moves will put you in a trance...
still remembering trying to copy him when I was a kid, always knew what he could do was special
I tried doing that moonwalk a few years ago. It was hopelessly impossible. Both dance videos above have amazing moves in them, but the editing doesn't do them justice. A while back someone posted a video of the Jackson Five auditioning for Motown, and he was amazing even then.
He wiggled, he shaked, he crawled on his belly like a snake. No. Wait. That was Little Egypt. Sorry. And in the words of Jacko himself: "Hee-hee-hee!"
He stood at the three-way intersection of Astaire, Chaplin and James Brown. Not necessarily in that order. You';re absolutely right. It is his infinitely painstaking attention to detail that lifts his dancing to another plane....
The things that he did that always amazed me were 1) the way he could go up on his toes like a ballet dancer 2) The way he could move his feet without moving his upper body (he used this in the moonwalk and also the sideways moonwalk he did, as well as what looked like softshoe moves and 3) the way he could move his entire body in sequence, like the shoulder shrug & pelvic shrug (for want of a better term) that looked like a ripple through water.