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Geri Miller (born April 27, 1942) is an American former go-go dancer and actress. She was a dancer at New York's Peppermint Lounge in the 1960s and appeared in sexploitation films before becoming part of pop artist Andy Warhol's Factory crowd. As a Warhol Superstar, she appeared in the films Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Women in Revolt (1971).
By 1965, "go-go" was a recognized word for a music club, as evidenced by the TV show Hollywood A Go-Go (march 1965-1966), or the song title of that year's hit Going to a Go-Go by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (released November 1965). At a go-go club, dancers could expect to hear the latest top 40 hits, performed
The club began its days in the early 1960s as a swinging Greenwich Village discothèque, run by a tough entrepreneur named Trude Heller. In the 1960s, go-go dancers could be seen dancing along the walls. Some of the people that danced on the floor there were Salvador Dalí, George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson. [5]
The phrase go-go was adopted by bars in the 1960s in Tokyo, Japan.It gained a lesser reputation when it was abandoned by a majority of clubs and appropriated by bawdy burlesque and striptease establishments, which in turn became known as go-go bars and the women working there known as go-go dancers.
Vito Paulekas and his group of dancers, known as the Freaks, helped create free-form dancing on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Vito Paulekas was a freak.
Sump'n Else also featured go-go dancers, students from local high schools known as "The Little Group". The original four included Joanie Prather (Janet on Eight is Enough), Calleen Anderegg (Miss Dallas 1966), Delpha Teague, and Kathy Forney. The second "Little Group" included Cheryl Lovett, Martha Latimer, Becky Ballard, Melody Coleman and Pat ...
Male go-go dancers performed on trapezes over a net above the dance floor. [8] G. G. Barnum's Room was a popular meeting place for transsexuals, drag queens and homosexuals. The "G.G." was a reference to the Ianniello-owned Gilded Grape located at 719 8th Avenue, a notorious gay bar which operated from the early 1970s until 1977.
Batusi / b æ ˈ t uː s i / is a 1960s-style go-go dance invented for the Batman television series. The name is a pun on the then-popular dance the Watusi. Performance