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Walking backward to prove you're moving forward, and somehow it works.
means To perform the dance move popularized by Michael Jackson in which the dancer appears to glide backward while seeming to walk forward; also, literally, to walk on the surface of the Moon.
from A transparent compound of "moon" (Old English mōna, the night's pale lamp) and "walk" (Old English wealcan, to roll or toss, later to travel on foot). The literal sense — strolling on the lunar surface — arrived with the Apollo landings of 1969. The dance sense came later: though the gliding step has earlier roots in mime and tap, it was Michael Jackson's 1983 performance that fused the move to the name, and the word has moonwalked backward into our vocabulary ever since.
- older than jackson
- Cab Calloway did it in the 1930s
- original name
- The dance was called the backslide
- actual moon walk
- Twelve humans have truly walked on the Moon
- 1983 debut
- Jackson unveiled it on Motown's 25th anniversary
- physics trick
- Sliding heel up sells the illusion of gliding
michael jackson — debuted the moonwalk on televised performance of "billie jean" on may 16, 1983
apollo 11 moonwalk — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin walked on the moon on july 20, 1969