I would consider them to be dancing WCS when:
- The follower is maintaining a slot.
- The follower hunts for the end of the slot on her own (after the pattern has been initiated by the leader).
- An anchour step lasting two beats is used to terminate the patterns in a leveraged position.
- The dance is underpinned by 6 and 8 count patterns, with timing based on the passes, whip and sugar push.
That to me is an absolute minimum, and is in no particular order. If any of those points are missing it isn't WCS as far as I'm concerned*.
However, I have issues with your statements here: Your first point is one of the criteria I'd use as well, but only one of them. You seem to consider it to be the only important criteria. Secondly, just because a dance may feel more like WCS to you than MJ does not make it so.
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I think the assumption you're making is that in this thought experiment is that there is an identifiable line where one dance becomes the other. I propose that there would be
a grey area where the dancers are not identifiably dancing either form. I also expect it'd look very disconnected and messy as nobody would be quite sure of what's expected of them for a period.
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