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0Michael Jackson, a great dancer, had no formal dance training throughout his career. Lacking a formal education, Michael went around performing. He learnt to dance by watching.
Michael Jackson's dance style was influenced by many people and styles, R&B artists, ballerinas, jazz, street dances and African-American styles. He was creative in the way he brought different techniques of many dance forms together, taking whatever he saw and liked and making them his own.
Eventually, the dance style became unique from fluid, smooth dance movements to sharp and accented ones. His smooth dance style was attractive in that his movements were so connected and they just seemed to flow from one to another, such as, the moonwalk. In the opposite end was his strong accented style of dancing, like that of the robot dance. The movements were a lot less connected.
Michael's dance complemented his songs so well that they came together as a package for Michael Jackson as an artist.
