Go-Go dancer

Go-Go dancers are scantily-clad erotic dancers who dance on stages in an erotic revue, or on elevated platforms or in bird cages above the crowd in clubs, bars or discothèques to set the tone or increase the energy of a dance floor. They often wear Go-Go boots.

Related Topics:
Erotic dance - Go-Go boots

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In Thailand and some other Asian countries, go-go bars in the form of erotic revues are popular, and the dancers there are often available to be bar fined by customers.

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Thailand - Go-go bars - Bar fined

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An example of a Go-Go dancer in the 1960s is Goldie Hawn on the popular TV series Laugh-In. Actor/singer/dancer Timmy Everett (1939-1977), famed for a single film and stage role (Tommy in The Music Man), attempted a career comeback in 1967 by promoting himself as the first "go-go boy."

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1960s - Goldie Hawn - TV - Laugh-In - Timmy Everett - The Music Man

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The Oxford English Dictionary lists as etymology of Go-Go the noun go, one meaning of which is "power of going, energy, vigor". Another theory has it that the word stems from the name of the nightclub Whisky A Go-Go in West Hollywood, California; this was one of the first night clubs featuring dancers in elevated cages. It was fashioned after an earlier Paris discothèque of the same name; à gogo is a French phrase for "in abundance, galore".

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Oxford English Dictionary - Etymology - Go - Whisky A Go-Go - Paris - French

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