Go-Go Dancing



Go-Go Dancing is Exactly What It Says on the Tin - dancing energetically on one's own, often but not always professionally, at a bar or nightclub for the entertainment of the patrons. While the outfits that go-go dancers wear are usually minimal to the point of being stripperiffic (and occasionally the dancers go topless, as at least one famously did at San Francisco's Condor Club in the 1960s), the dancers do not as a rule actually strip - go-go bars are not strip clubs.

The Other Wiki has an article about the history of go-go dancing, including a mention that as of 1991 there were more go-go boys in gay clubs than there were go-go girls in "straight" clubs.

Compare Bikini Bar and Strip club.

Not to be confused with Go Go Tomago, Gogo Yubari, Hugo A-Go-Go or Go-go Gadget anything. Or with the subgenre of Funk music that arose out of Washington DC in the 1960s-70s.


 * Go-Go Enslavement

Film

 * Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is about three go-go dancers who go on a crime spree.
 * Girl in Gold Boots, a 1968 film about what The Other Wiki calls "the seedy underworld of go-go dancing".
 * Go Go Tales, a 2007 comedy where the go-go club becomes a strip club.
 * The dance scene in Pulp Fiction uses go-go dance moves.
 * Go-go dancer Cherry Darling is one of the main characters in the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino 2007 exploitation film homage Planet Terror, and some of the action takes place in a go-go bar where she dances.

Live-Action TV

 * The Kit Kat Club, Catwoman's home base in the 1960s Batman TV series, had caged go-go dancers performing for the patrons.
 * From the same show, there's the Batusi, based on typical go-go dance moves of the 1960s.
 * Goldie Hawn and Judy Carne were frequently shown go-go dancing on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, wearing bikinis with various slogans, Catch Phrases and punch lines painted on their bodies.

Music

 * Pizzicato Five has a song titled "Go Go Dancer", sung from the perspective of a go-go girl from the 1960s or 1970s.

Web Original

 * Dr. Steel's live stage shows frequently featured go-go dancers dressed in PVC halters and miniskirts that matched his labcoat.