"optic tubes in various colors, strings of battery-operated colored lights in plastic tubes, fire sticks, a musical instrument, or an animal (usually a snake). In the early to mid‑1980s, the performance art dancer John Sex, who performed with a python, played a role in making go-go dancing popular once again at gay and bisexual night clubs along with his life partner Sebastian Kwok. Go-go dancing Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at nightclubs or other venues where music is played. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s, by some accounts when women at the Peppermint Lounge"
"the Mardi Gras, all in Manhattan) secretly owned by Ianniello, his business partner Benjamin Cohen and seven associates. Peppermint Lounge The Peppermint Lounge was a popular discotheque located at 128 West 45th Street in New York City that was open from 1958 to 1965. It was the launchpad for the global Twist craze in the early 1960s. Many claim The Peppermint Lounge was also where go-go dancing originated, although this claim is subject to dispute. The Peppermint Lounge opened in 1958 at 128 West 45th Street in Manhattan. It had a lengthy mahogany bar running along one side, lots of"
"Peppermint Lounge The Peppermint Lounge was a popular discotheque located at 128 West 45th Street in New York City that was open from 1958 to 1965. It was the launchpad for the global Twist craze in the early 1960s. Many claim The Peppermint Lounge was also where go-go dancing originated, although this claim is subject to dispute. The Peppermint Lounge opened in 1958 at 128 West 45th Street in Manhattan. It had a lengthy mahogany bar running along one side, lots of mirrors and a dance floor at the back, a capacity of just 178 people, and a gay clientele."
"and dance the twist. Other accounts claim that go-go dancing originated at, and was named for, the very popular South L.A. rock club Whisky a Go Go which opened in January 1964. Many 1960s-era clubgoers wore miniskirts and knee-high, high-heeled boots, which eventually came to be called go-go boots, to night clubs. On 19 June 1964 ""Big"" Davy Rosenberg, the publicist at the Condor Club in San Francisco, gave Carol Doda, a 26 years old go-go dancer at the club, a monokini topless swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich. She performed topless that night, the first noted entertainer of the era"
"San Francisco. She became the world's most famous go-go dancer, dancing at the Condor for 22 years. Go-go dancers began to be hired on a regular basis at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in the Los Angeles area in July 1965. The Whisky a Go Go was also the first go-go club to have go-go cages suspended from the ceiling (they were there from the very beginning in 1965), and thus the profession of cage dancer was born. The phrase ""go-go"" was adopted by bars in the 1960s in Tokyo, Japan. It was"
"released the song ""The Twist"" with an accompanying dance of the same name in 1960. He performed the dance on the television show ""American Bandstand"", and the song reached number one in 1960 and 1962. The Twist was the most popular dance craze of the 1960s because it broke away from the trend of partner dancing enabling people to perform on their own. James Brown was a major contributor to social dance. He popularized several fad dances in the 1970s such as the Mashed Potato, the Boogaloo, and the Good Foot. His accompanying songs to these dances include ""(Do the)"
"by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) when actions in 1961 were dubbed ""Operation Twist"". In 2011 the FOMC revived Operation Twist. The dance would come to be seen as emblematic of the early 1960s in later years, with popular songs, television shows, and movies likely to reference it when they wanted to convey the spirit of that time period. In 1978 rock band The B-52's included the line, ""Twisting round the fire"", in their song of 1960s beach party film references, ""Rock Lobster"". In 1993, a film by Ron Mann called ""Twist"" was a documentary about the"
"That Changed the World"" by Jim Dawson, . In 2009 Lady Gaga danced the twist with her backup dancers in the official video for the song ""Bad Romance"". The Twist was also a pivotal part of the book ""The Strange Case of Origami Yoda"" (2010), in which an origami puppet made to resemble Yoda gives out advice. Twist (dance) The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became the first worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity among all people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was"
"first ""Whisky à Gogo"" nightclub opened in Paris in 1947, drawing the ""Whisky"" part of its name from the whisky labels that lined its walls. In 1953 it became the first discotheque. The club was franchised, first in Chicago in 1958 and then in Los Angeles in 1964. In May 1964 the Los Angeles club was featured in Life magazine and by 1965 clubs called ""Whisky à Go-Go"" (or ""Whiskey à Go-Go"") had appeared in Milwaukee, Washington, San Francisco and Atlanta. In the Los Angeles club a new style of dance was taking place, as go-go dancers in short, fringed"
"1960s-era clubgoers wore miniskirts and knee-high, high-heeled boots, which eventually came to be called go-go boots. Night club promoters in the mid‑1960s then conceived the idea of hiring women dressed in these outfits to entertain patrons. The term ""go-go"" derives from the phrase ""go-go-go"" for a high-energy person, and was influenced by the French expression ""à gogo"", meaning ""in abundance, galore"", which is in turn derived from the ancient French word ""la gogue"" for ""joy, happiness"". On 19 June 1964, Carol Doda began go-go dancing topless at the Condor Club on Broadway and Columbus in the North Beach neighborhood of"
"of ""The Twist"" at the age of 18 in July 1960 in Wildwood, New Jersey at the Rainbow Club, ""The Twist"" went on to become the only single to top the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 twice, in two separate chart runs. (Bing Crosby's ""White Christmas"" had done so on ""Billboard""'s earlier chart.) ""The Twist"" had previously peaked at #16 on the ""Billboard"" rhythm and blues chart, in the 1959 version recorded by its author, Hank Ballard, whose band The Midnighters first performed the dance on stage. Checker's ""Twist"", however, was a nationwide smash, aided by his many appearances on Dick Clark's"
"Twist (dance) The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became the first worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity among all people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was too provocative. It inspired dances such as the Jerk, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken, but none were as popular. Having seen teenagers in Tampa, Florida doing the dance, Hank Ballard wrote ""The Twist"" and released it as the B-side of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' 1959 single ""Teardrops on"
"mother forbade her from doing it, Valentine recruited the club's cigarette girl, Patty Brockhurst. Valentine quickly hired two more female dancers, one of whom, Joanna Labean, designed the official go-go-girl costume of fringed dress and white boots. Rivers rode the Whisky-born go-go craze to national fame with records recorded partly ""Live at the Whisky"". In addition, The Miracles recorded the song ""Going to a Go-Go"" in 1966 (which was covered in 1982 by The Rolling Stones), and Whisky a Go Go franchises sprang up all over the country. Arguably, the rock and roll scene in Los Angeles was born when"
"As the Twist craze hit in 1960–1961, celebrities swarmed into the Peppermint Lounge - Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Liberace, Noël Coward, Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, Annette Funicello, even the elusive Greta Garbo - to dance to the house band, Joey Dee and the Starliters. Jackie Kennedy was such an enthusiast that she arranged for a temporary ""Peppermint Lounge"" to be mounted in the White House. One such event even took place at a meeting of the austere Council of the Organization of American States. A sister club was opened in Miami Beach. The proprietor Ralph Saggesse"
"""The Twist"" became number one on the singles chart in the United States in 1960 and then again in 1962. In 1961, at the height of the craze, patrons at New York's Peppermint Lounge on West 45th Street were twisting to the house band, a local group from Jersey, Joey Dee and the Starliters. Their song, ""The Peppermint Twist (Part 1)"" became number one in the United States for three weeks in January 1962. In 1962 Bo Diddley released his album ""Bo Diddley's A Twister"". He recorded several Twist tracks, including ""The Twister"", ""Bo's Twist"", and ""Mama Don't Allow No"
"Sir Joe & the Free Souls, The Mighty Ascots, Ray Johnson's Esquires, Sons of Nature, and The Fathers Children, are just a few of the bands that played great music during the infancy of Go-go. In the mid-1960s, ""go-go"" was the word for a music club in the local African American community, as in the common phrase at the time ""going to a go-go"" popularized by a million-selling hit of the same name by The Miracles. Dancers could expect to hear the latest top 40 hits, as many as twenty at a time, performed by local funk and soul bands,"
"looked at me her eyes just shined like gold, and when she did the twist she bopped me to my soul"". But the simple dance that we now know as the Twist originates in the late fifties among teenagers, and was popularized by Chubby Checker in his preparation to debut the song to a national audience on August 6, 1960, on ""The Dick Clark Show"", a Saturday night program that, unlike disc jockey Clark's daytime American Bandstand, was a stage show with a sitting audience. Dick Clark was a powerhouse in music at the time, thanks to American Bandstand, which"
"to learn English as well as au pair girls from most of western Europe. In the early 1960s, Mark Birley opened a members-only discothèque nightclub, Annabel's, in Berkeley Square, London. In 1962, the Peppermint Lounge in New York City became popular and is the place where go-go dancing originated. However, the first rock and roll generation preferred rough and tumble bars and taverns to nightclubs, and the nightclub did not attain mainstream popularity until the 1970s disco era. Sybil Burton opened the ""Arthur"" discothèque in 1965 on East 54th Street in Manhattan on the site of the old El Morocco"
"idea to hold Twist dance contests on Tuesday evenings and the club's weekly contest started in December 1961. A hostess for the Paris night club, the Blue Note, visited Big Wilt's Smalls Paradise shortly after the contest began; she was there to learn the Twist and take the dance back to the Paris club, By the beginning of 1962, BBC-TV came with a crew to film the twisting at the night spot for broadcast in the UK and journalists from many foreign newspapers visited to take photos and file news stories. Delegates from the United Nations had also found their"
"skirts and high boots danced in a glass booth above the patrons. The first recorded occurrence of topless go-go dancing was in the Condor nightclub in San Francisco in 1964, and topless go-go dancing quickly became a part of the adult entertainment industry. It was also the time when dances became popular, where partners were dancing apart from each other. Not long after the success of the discotheques in France, they were opened in French style in New York City, with the same name as their French example: “Whiskey A Go-Go”. American discos introduced soon a form of entertainment of"
"Martino recalls that he began playing at the club as a teenager (in the late 1950s), and would often play until 4am in the morning. After the clubs closed he would then join guitarists such as Wes Montgomery and Grant Green for breakfast. Smalls Paradise played a role in popularizing the Madison in 1960, but the night club's burst of popularity in the early 1960s came from the later dance craze, the Twist. Since Tuesday nights were exceptionally slow at Big Wilt's Smalls Paradise, the club looked for a way to bring in more business. Someone came up with the"
"the credit of being the first topless go-go dancer. The club opened in 1964 and Doda's première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19 of that year. The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of her with red lights on her breasts. The club went ""bottomless"" on September 3, 1969 and began the trend of explicit ""full nudity"" in American striptease dancing. which was picked up by other establishments such as Apartment A Go Go. San Francisco is also the location of the notorious Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. Originally an X-rated movie theater"
"from that time period playing at a club previously known as Whiskey a go go founded by Rene Gelston in Wardour Street, Soho(which would later become known as The Wag)starting in 1984. Norman Jay's show however,was done as a collaboration with DJ Judge Jules and featured a mainly urban soundtrack from the 1970s and 1980s mixed with early house music.Tracks similar to ""rare grooves"" had begun to see a following in the 1970s northern soul movement, which curated a collection of rare and obscure soul records for play in dance clubs. The rare groove scene began when DJs presented an"
"in prime urban locations, all featuring her signature ""disco-style"" layout. It is commonly accepted that Régine's Paris Whisky à Gogo became the inspiration for the later establishment of the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles. Her two attempts at opening clubs in London both failed within months and she blamed this on what she called the British ""lack of style"". She also established Jimmy'z, a nightclub in Monaco, in 1974. Aside from inventing the discothèque concept, Régine introduced France to the Twist, having seen the Paris cast of ""West Side Story"" warming up to Chubby Checker records. Thereafter,"
"play them what they like - 'Northern Soul'. The venue most commonly associated with the early development of the northern soul scene was the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. The club began in the early 1950s as a beatnik coffee bar called The Left Wing, but in early 1963, the run-down premises were leased by two Manchester businessmen (Ivor and Phil Abadi) and turned into a music venue. Initially, the Twisted Wheel mainly hosted live music on the weekends and ""Disc Only"" nights during the week. Starting in September 1963, the Abadi brothers promoted all-night parties at the venue on Saturday"
"first Whisky a Go-Go in the United States opened in Chicago, Illinois, on the corner of Rush and Chestnut streets. It has been called the first real American discothèque. A franchise was opened in 1966 on M Street in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., by restaurateur Jacques Vivien. It owes its name to the first discothèque, the Whisky à Go-Go, established in Paris in 1947 by Paul Pacine. The Sunset Strip Whisky was founded by Elmer Valentine, Phil Tanzini, Shelly Davis, and attorney Theodore Flier and opened on January 16, 1964. In 1972, Valentine, Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and"
"from Chester, Pennsylvania and the rockabilly musician Charlie Gracie. Philadelphia also had a vibrant R&B and soul scene, including most influentially the label Cameo-Parkway, which was responsible for some 1950s R&B dance hits beginning with Chubby Checker's ""The Twist"". Cameo-Parkway followed with a series of other dance-themed novelty songs like ""The Wah Watusi"" by The Orlons, ""Mashed Potato Time"" by Dee Dee Sharp and ""The Bristol Stomp"" by The Dovells. Philadelphia's famous 1950s performers also included Danny & the Juniors, a doo wop group. They were among the first of Philadelphia's doo wop musicians to gain national success. Doo wop"
"years later and took a trip to Europe. While he was in Paris, he visited a discotheque called Le Whisky à Go-Go that was packed nightly with crowds of young dancers. Impressed by the club’s success, Valentine returned to Los Angeles and opened his own Whisky a Go Go on January 15, 1964 with three partners: Phil Tanzini, Shelly Davis, and attorney Theodore Flier. In 1965, he launched The Trip, with beginning house bands The Leaves and The Grass Roots. It was a small rock club on the Sunset Strip. In 1972, along with Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and others,"
"began on Wednesday nights in early 1993 and continued at the Trocadero until 2000, when it moved to the Cat Club on Wednesday nights at 1190 Folsom Street near 8th Street Then in 2004 it moved back to the Glas Kat (the successor nightclub to the Trocadero at 520 4th Street). In 2011, due to the remodeling, the Bondage a Go-Go moved back to the Cat Club again and has remained there ever since, deciding to remain there instead going back to the Grand Ballroom. The other long-running club at the Trocadero was Death Guild, which moved to the Troc"
"Go-go Go-go is a popular music subgenre associated with funk that originated in the Washington, D.C., area during the mid-60s to late-70s. It remains primarily popular in the Washington metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style. A great number of bands contributed to the early evolution of the genre, but the Young Senators, Black Heat, and singer-guitarist Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers are credited with having developed most of the hallmarks of the style. Inspired by artists such as the groups mentioned above, go-go is a blend of funk, rhythm and blues, and old school hip-hop, with a"
"his party Gay Bingo since 2003. Since then he has devised numerous shows as well as opening his own venue The Glory in East London. Woo, born Jonathan Wooster, trained at the University of Birmingham in Drama and Theatre Arts and at London Contemporary Dance School. He went on to continue training in dance in New York where he performed with Julia Ritter Performance Group. Woo began performing as a cabaret artist at The Slipper Room on the new burlesque scene with performance artist Brandon Olson where they developed material, which later became the show 'Go-Go Real' at Dixon Place."
"tour frequently in the area, including Urban Bush Women and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, as well as Broadway musicals, plays, and revivals. Go-go is a music subgenre that is a blend of funk, blues and rhythm, and old-school hip-hop that originated in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s by Chuck Brown. The term ""go-go"" was originally used to describe places where young people partied. During concerts, the percussion section of a band would continually play music while the band leader engaged the audience through a call and respond method during concerts. This call and respond method"
"spread throughout the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. In 1905, Edward Lasker learned the game while in Berlin. When he moved to New York, Lasker founded the New York Go Club together with (amongst others) Arthur Smith, who had learned of the game while touring the East and had published the book ""The Game of Go"" in 1908. Lasker's book ""Go and Go-moku"" (1934) helped spread the game throughout the US, and in 1935, the American Go Association was formed. Two years later, in 1937, the German Go Association was founded. World War II put a stop to most Go activity,"