Some thoughts; On the art of pattern spotting.

In dance, all of your moves count. But should the focus be on copying all the dance moves? no fool it's too boring. You wouldn't need to be in-sync with every move. You just pick out what I call "Minimum Beauty Modifiers"; that is the minimum amount of dance moves that provide the dancer with maximum leverage.


Similarly, Michael leans back and forth using his gravity defying Smooth Criminal lean. Seeing him dancing, there's a tipping point as he performs that gravity lean, the emotions are heightened because it raises temperature in the room and exaggerate certain qualities to put cover over other features.

These Minimum Beauty Modifiers[MBF] are mini-dance steps that on a micro and macro level, construct the whole dance.
In this video, moves are perfect. Of course there's a key element you'd miss: lifeless dance. You can't do guessing game on this video. I mean you can't tell his MBFs at the first encounter likely because his moves are not "natural". Our minds are trained to reject what's not natural.

Aashma Biswokarma took things further as she beautifully stole [MBFs of] Dame tu Cosito. How? by adding more flexibility to MBFs, hence changing the whole tone, and energy to create a very different kind of feel than the original song. Her body movements(thigh to torso angles) allow her to alter the energy throughout her performance. This is called MBF. A nerd is no more a nerd the moment he blows off stage with his Break Dance. Of course that's Michael Jackson. Michael can successfully counter something called Senescence tendency. His clothes, second his dance! through which he's animating his body. Not anyone can copy break dancing and get away with it. Many a fools think they've become Michael Jackson just because they did up and down movements on Thriller. Nonsense. Oversimplification is as dangerous as complication.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. - Bruce Lee

Michael was a machine. He could instantly copy - and create his own mix instantly (of dance, of course). Why was he so superhuman? 1000s of hours watching the other performers, with care, to analyze performances for potential MBFs. Just like that girl who combined MBFs of other dance performances(she's a hip hopper) effectively so to add life to her performance in just one performance?
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Quoting from his book Moonwalker[by Michael Jackson], not only he would sing, but at the end of performance rather than get busy talking, he would peek over dancers and watch their moves. He was trying to make connections between MBF(Minimum Beauty Modifiers) of all the dancers as they came by. He did this for the next 10 years of his life. It was not like a YouTube tutorial. His superman like skills came from his ability to analyze thousands of dance performances. Later he would pick out Minimum Beauty Modifiers instantly. His own dance showed hard work and years of practice. What was Michaels' secret? his secret was that he could successfully combine thousands of performances into just a single stage performance that Millions of people would watch and cry for: Break Dance + Singing + His silly body language that his fans have a craving for. The kind of dance that made history and won hearts of millions or even billions of people. Today hip hop artists try to copy the break dance and I'm telling you this: there's beauty to their dance too!(a la Step Up)
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Science can explain phenomenons very well. In the Video Game Dragon Age: Inquisition there's a creature known as Wyvern. This dragon lives somewhere around the Northern Exalted Plains. My point is that in order to understand and categorize this creature, one needs to just analyze:

1. Moving Style; Speed and angles etc.
2. Attack Preferences; Aggressive or Non-aggressive
3. Mating preferences
4. Hunting patterns 

 What are Hunting Patterns?
Consider these questions. What are the times of hunting exactly for most of the wyverns: day or night in different seasons? Where are most wyverns scattered? How a Wyvern from a desert in a lower altitude area prefers hunting: one-man show or Social/Team work(like cheetahs and lions)? What type of food do they store? When do they feel the need to store food, when they're sleeping or when in water? etc. etc. Questions like these help us design experiments to learn more about those Wyverns bothering us in the Western Plains(or where ever in general).
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Life is all about patterns. I mean learning patterns of nature allows us to categorize and compare, on an individual level, thousands of the dragons with relative ease. Cultivate the brain-melting ability to spot patterns(MBF, as I would call), feel free to eliminate crude moves. This will allow you to dance better than 90% of people in very short amount of time. That's what the Step Up was for, remember?