What is Twerking?

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   SimeyCposted 11 years ago

   What is Twerking?
   
   Where did Twerking originate?

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   MarcoMarksposted 11 years ago

   I'm not familiar with twerking.  But I'm familiar with tweaking - the art of fine adjustment striving for perfection.

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   xanderbluposted 11 years ago

   Twerking is a dance move involving vigourous buttock motion, generally where the dancer is squatting or bent over. An actual twerker would probably give a more precise definition but that is the gist of it.
   
   As for origination, probably many thousands of years ago, when the first lady shook her rump and decided it was kind of fun. More recently, it is hard to say. Rump shaking is an element of many dance styles all around the world, especially the southern half of the world (Africa and South America) who seem to have a bit more rhythm than we do in the north. An African style called Mapouka or Brazilian Funk are good examples.
   
   In America, the lineage is generally traced to New Orleans Bounce, but I'm not certain if that was a spontaneous creation or borrowed from other places. It is famous now because Miley Cyrus twerked (or attempted to twerk, according to many).

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   dashingscorpioposted 11 years ago

   It's a new term for an old dance.
   Essentially it's nothing more than one person bending forward and bouncing their ass to music against the pelvis area of someone standing behind them. Primarily women twerk on men.

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   cfinposted 11 years ago

   Twerking is an abomination dating back to ancient Greece where the Spartans (see the movie 300) would twerk their Turkeys before battle. Some prophecies foresee twerking as the downfall of mankind in a sort of Mass Hysteria (See: Dancing mania) brought on by a lethal concoction of drugs/ booze and lack of brain power.

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