Unexpectedly, MJ's idol Chaplin also walked through space steps!!!
Have you ever seen Chaplin's "space step"? Matching the footage from Chaplin's "Modern Times" with MJ's "Billie Jean" clip is surprisingly wonderful!
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After watching the video, many friends have spoken and asked if this is the origin of inspiration? Did Maxon's Spacewalk originate from Chaplin's modern era?
Michael Jackson mentioned the origins of the "spacewalk" in his autobiography, Moonwalk: a group of black boys taught him. Then after his modification, there was a "space step". An earlier prototype was a performance by the French pantomime performer Marcé Marcé. Before Michael Jackson made "Spacewalk" famous in 1983, American dancing singer Jeffrey Daniel also performed on a 1982 British music show called "Top Of The Pops." But at that time, the sliding step was only the prototype of the "step backwards", which was improved by Michael Jackson in 1983.
But in fact, the earliest inventor of the post-slip/space step is bill Bailey, a genius tap dancer born in 1912! He performed the first video-recorded post-slide/space walk in history at the New York Stage Play in 1955! It was invented and became a new technology for tap dancing. Other skating techniques such as forward skating, side skating, and diamond skating also came from some street dancers, and existed before MJ put it on the stage (see "FunkStyles" History & Knowledge, "Unruly Souls" and various video sources in the early 19th century), Jackson was not the inventor or reformer of the space step, but he was the most famous space step performer and promoter. The space step is the MOON WALK, the name was first proposed by Michael Jackson, and it is also his perfect fire to dance this dance step, carry it forward, and become famous all over the world!