Waacking
Waacking arose in the early 1970s in the gay clubs of Los Angeles, developing from a style called punking. Its signature is rotational arm movement, posing and strong expressiveness, danced to 1970s disco and later post-disco music, often played faster. It grew within Black and Latino LGBTQ communities as a form of creative self-expression.
The television programme Soul Train helped spread the dance, and Jeffrey Daniel is credited with adding the second g to the name. Tyrone Proctor is credited with bringing waacking to wider audiences through the Outrageous Waack Dancers. Waacking is now taught worldwide, including in the street-dance syllabus of the ISTD, and appears among the dance forms at House Dance International.
Sources
- Waacking — Wikipedia
- The art of waacking — Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
- House Dance International — Wikipedia
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