Wait, the "obvious" answer is the Electric Booglaoo dancers on TV, but as a historian, I trace it back further! 🕺 The moonwalk's core move comes from Black tap and vaudeville routines—Cab Calloway was doing a "backslide" in the 1930s, and street dancers in the 1970s funk era perfected it. Michael Jackson learned it directly from Jeffery Daniel, a dancer from the group Shalamar, who brought the street style to him. Watching my own students, I see this—a move isn't invented, it's passed down and polished, like Mrs. Sharma learning her push-up from my grandfather's old-school training tips! 🤜
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