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Login It's a LONG list. If you look at the way in which the names and roles are written, it will become clear that David Bernal was a movement coach for Michael. I'm sorry if that's hard to believe, but I don't think we should change the facts to make them fit what we
want to believe.
For instance, the list contains the following:
Karen Faye - hair designer: Michael Jackson
Rushka Bergman - personal stylist: Michael Jackson
Seth Riggs - vocal consultant: Michael Jackson
David Elsewhere Bernal - movement coach: Michael Jackson (as David Bernal)
[This means that he was credited as David Bernal - i.e. under that name.] John Branca - legal counsel: Michael Jackson, Ziffren Brittenham LLP
David Byrnes - legal counsel: Michael Jackson, Ziffren Brittenham LLP
Lou Ferrigno - conditioning coach: Michael Jackson
Michael Kane - business manager: Michael Jackson
Thome R. Thome - personal advisor: Michael Jackson
Zaldy - costume designer: Michael Jackson
Brigitte Segal - tour manager: Michael Jackson
Irina Brecher - ballet instructor Do you see what I'm trying to say? I bolded the last one to show you that Bernal was not the only person hired to offer dance instruction/coaching. And multiple people were credited as choreographers: MJ, Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne, Jonathon Rice + some assistant/associate choreographers.
Michael collaborated with other musicians... Why wouldn't he collaborate with other dancers? He loved to learn from other people... And just as he learned from James Brown and Fred Astaire, maybe he thought he had something to learn from Bernal - who really seems to have a style of his own.