I have a penchant for dragging ladies who have never partner danced before onto the dancefloor. Doing that I am sometimes grateful for any mechanism I can find to try and relate the music to the movement. If I could have sold "4-5-6-7-8 and bounce" as a genuine MJ move I would sometimes have been tempted to have tried that. I suspect that it may be an even more important building block for some male beginners. Leaving the lesson with just that might, in a very fewcases, be genuine progress.
I can see the point of the lowest common denominator and in getting them to bring their bad habits back next week.
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