Twerking

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Twerking (; possibly from 'to work') is a type of dance where participants throw or thrust the hips back or shake the buttocks, often in a low squatting stance. It is performed chiefly, but not exclusively, by women. Twerking's origins lay in West and Central Africa, where traditional dances such as Mapouka from the Ivory Coast and other related pelvic dances emphasized expressive hip and buttock isolations in ceremonial, celebratory, and social settings. These traditions were later tethered and appropriated by New World populations like Haitians in Kole mabouya or Americans in the New Orleans bounce scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves "unique" to the New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce". Moves include "mixing", "exercising", the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", "the sleeper" and "the wild wood"—all recognized as booty shaking or bounce. Twerking is one among other types...

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