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Twerking ( / ˈ t w ɜr k ɪ ŋ /) is a type of dancing in which an individual, usually a female,[1] dances to music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance.[2] Though the term seems to be of uncertain origin with common assumptions suggesting it represents a contraction of "" or a portmanteau of the words "twist" and "jerk", the Oxford Dictionaries blog says "the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to "work it". ("" is a common phrase as well.) The "t" could be a result of blending with another word such as twist or twitch."[3] There is evidence from ethnographic interviews in that the term began as street language in New Orleans with the rise of the local music known as Bounce.[4] Since the late 1990s, twerking was associated[by whom?] with of the Dirty South and was disseminated via mainstream hip hop videos and popular video-sharing sites since the mid- 2000s. In 2013, twerk was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online.[5] According to Oxford dictionary, the word has been around for 20 years. The word was a runner-up in the Oxford Dictionaries 2013.[6]

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 1 Background

 2 Entertainment industry

o 2.1 Influence

 3 See also  4 References

 5 External links Background The move originates from West Africa (for instance the Mapouka dance) and has been around for several generations.[7] It was then adopted by African American culture in the 1990s. The dance originally was not done with sexual intent until it hit the hip hop scene in America in the early 1990s, where it became sexualized as part of the hip hop industry performed by video models in rap videos.[8] Twerking can carry both gendered and racialized connotations, given its origins and the dance itself it is often associated with Black women as the Samba dance is with Latino women.[9] In the United States, twerking was introduced into hip-hop culture by way of the New Orleans bounce music scene. In 1993, DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune "Do The Jubilee All" in which he chanted, "Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk."[10] The video for the increased the popularity of twerking. In 1995, New Orleans-based rapper Cheeky Blakk recorded the song "Twerk Something!" a call-and-response dance song dedicated to twerking. In 1997, DJ Jubilee recorded "Get Ready, Ready" in which he encouraged listeners to "Twerk it!". There is also the following logging for an ancient Greek dance that could be the ancestor of twerking who was called “Kordaks“ or “Kordax.“ The "Kordax" is a provocative, obscene dance of Greek comedy since antiquity. People were dancing with rocking waist to show that important region of the body. This dance was meant to draw erotic attention. Characterization of Kordax as a hip-shaking dance requires accurate investigation, allegedly as the foremost dance of comedy. Related comedies that described these dances, convey some idea of how the Kordax was danced in antiquity. The word "Kordax" appears the year 423 BC for the first time in the comedy Nefeles by Aristophanes, and Theophrastus reported that the Kordax was a which was danced in a state of foolishness. In ancient comedy, specifically in Kratinos (about 450 BC) there is a description of Kordax: With bent legs people performed movements with their bodies bowed forward and arms, alternately stretched - like a sword - forward and to the upper, so as to conspicuously protrude the hips. Entertainment industry Twerking first received national recognition in the United States in the early 2000s, when the song "Whistle While You Twurk" (2000), by duo , peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop component chart. It was later referenced in their later track " Yi Yi" (2002), in which the lyrics "she got her hands up on her knees and her elbows on her thighs / she like to twerk and that's for certain I can tell that she fly" are heard. In her 2005 single "Check on It", American recording artist Beyoncé sings "Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight."[11] Beyoncé's single reached number one on the US , following its release. "Twerk" was also sung in Destiny's Child's pop hit "Jumpin' Jumpin'." In 2006, the song "Pop, Lock & Drop It", by American rapper Huey, reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. Also in 2006, the hit single "Sexy Back", by American popsinger , featuring , from the former's second studio Futuresex/Lovesounds, featured Timbaland the lyrics "Let me see what you're twerking with / Go ahead, be gone with it, Look at those hips". During her tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Eve Torres would twerk before performing a standing moonsault on her opponent.[12][13] In 2011, a group of female dancers who call themselves the Twerk Team and have posted several videos of themselves twerking on YouTube were mentioned during the song "Round of Applause" by featuring , in the line "Bounce that ass, shake that ass like the Twerk Team".[7] Australian rapper has incorporated twerking into her live shows since 2011.[14][15] In July 2012, during the episode "The Lord's Force", Anders Holm says "Let's just, uh, some twerk videos or something, right?".[16] The 2012 single "" by , contains the lyric "Start twerking when she hear her song", [17] while questions the ability of a girl to twerk by asking "What you twerkin' with," in his respective 2012 single "", featuring fellow rappers Drake, and .[18] The aforementioned songs, along with "Express Yourself" by Nicky Da B and , "Made twerking the most popular dance move since the ".[19] In March 2013, American pop singer posted a video on which featured her performing a twerking routine while wearing a unicorn suit, to the 2011 single "Wop" by J. Dash. The popularity of the video, along with parodies and responses made by fans, influenced the song's re-emergence on the Billboard Hot 100.[20] Miley Cyrus's "Wop" video would go to become viral; by April 9, 2013, copies of the video had amassed over 4 million views on YouTube. Also in March 2013, Mollie King, an English singer- and lead vocalist of British-Irish girl group The Saturdays, was seen twerking when her bandmate Rochelle Humes, uploaded the footage on YouTube.[21] American actress and singer was also seen twerking in March on American late-night talk show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[22] In September 2013, Hudgens was later seen twerking, this time to the song "", during her performance at Bootsy Bellows in West Hollywood, with her girl group YLA.[23][24] Hudgens was again seen twerking in a video for Shade 45's radio show Sway in the Morning.[25][26] American actress and singer can also be seen twerking in a video for Shade 45's radio show Sway in the Morning.[27][28] On July 9, 2013, a video was posted on the -owned video sharing service entitled "Twerk Team", which featured a group of five women provocatively twerking to "Don't Drop That Thun Thun". The clip was shared by users over 100,000 times, and users created their own responses and parodies featuring the song, collected under thehashtags "#dontdropthat" and "#thunthun". The viral popularity of the Vine clips led to an unexpected increase in sales for the song; prior to the posting of the "Twerk Team" clip, only 4,000 copies of the song had been sold; in the following weeks, sales went up to 34,000, then to over 72,000. By late-July, "Don't Drop That Thun Thun" had reached #5 onBillboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs chart, and it eventually peaked at #35 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.[29] Both "Wop" and "Don't Drop That Thun Thun" have been cited as examples of how viral and user-created videos can bring renewed interest to songs; Spin writer Jordan Sargent considered "Wop" to be rap music's " Shake moment", but not a meme to the same extent as it.[29][29][30] In April 2013, American rapper released the song "Express Yourself", inspired by music producer Diplo's song of the same name. The song, produced by Trampy, features a fast-paced electronic beat and is a composition about the popular dance craze twerking.[31] Brown dedicated the song "to all the ladies that like to turn up and have fun," in which he raps "Toes on the wall and her ass in the air / And she twerk that thing like she ain't have a care".[32][33] In the for Barbadian singer 's single "", which was released in May 2013, the singer can be seen twerking.[34] In June 2013, American rapper released a Jamaican -inspired single titled "Twerk It", featuring , who has been featured on several other "twerking songs", including "Shakin' It 4 Daddy" by , "Dance (A$$)" by and "Clappers" by . Minaj can be seen twerking in all four of the aforementioned songs' respective music videos. Minaj can also be seen twerking in the music videos for American rapper 's single "Get Like Me" and American singer 's single "I'm Out".[35][36] In August 2013, the song "Twerk", by , featuring pop singers Miley Cyrus and , was leaked online.[37] In August 2013, Juicy J announced via Twitter, that he would give out a $50,000 scholarship for the girl who can twerk the best. The competition is inspired by the track "Scholarship" on his third album Stay Trippy, which contains the lyric "Keep twerking baby, might earn you a scholarship."[38] In early September 2013, a video titled "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches !", began circulating around online; the video went on to become viral with over 9 million views, and received media coverage. The following week, American comedian and television host revealed the video was a hoax that he and his team had devised, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[39][40][41] In April 2014, the video was named best viral clip at internet awards.[42] Also in September, "Twerk" from the MTV VMA show was named the Top Television Word of the Year (Teleword) of the 2012–2013 TV season by the . In October 2013, American actress , of American television sitcom , was seen twerking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[43][44] Behrs was later seen twerking to the 1992 hit "", in January 2014, during the 40th annual awards ceremony of the People's Choice Awards, which she hosted alongside her co-star .[45][46] The fifth episode of the fifth season of the American musical television series Glee, which aired November 13, 2013 and was titled "The End of Twerk", revolved around the twerking phenomenon.[47] The seventh episode of the second season of the American series Bad Girls All-Star Battle, which aired February 25, 2014 and was titled "Twerk It Out", featured the contestants twerking as fast as possible with pedometers on their back.[48] In August 2013, American recording artist Miley Cyrus, generated controversy following a sexually provocative performance during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, in which Cyrus twerked during a medley of her track "We Can't Stop" and "" and "" by Robin Thicke.[49] In August 2014, American recording artist , featured twerking in the music video to her single "".[50] This caused some controversy with American rapperEarl Sweatshirt saying that the video was "perpetuating stereotypes".[51] Influence In 2005, a trio of teenage girls founded The 'Twerk Team',[52] and joined YouTube on June 5, 2009.[53] Now composed of two African American sisters from , . Since the foundation of the team, they have been posting videos of "them gyrating and shaking their butts, to a point that it's artistic."[7] It was called "YouTube's foremost ass-shaking troupe" by gossip website Gawker.[54] As of December 2012 their channel had a total of more than 74 million views and more than 250,000 subscribers.[53] Their Twitteraccount has about 115,000 followers.[55] The website Urban Dictionary, claims that they became popular for their dance to the song "Donk" by Soulja Boy.[56] In 2013, 33 students from Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, were suspended for using school equipment to make a twerking video on school grounds that was later uploaded to YouTube.[57][58] See also

 Daggering

carioca

(dance)

 M'alayah

 Perreo  Surra de Bunda

Qué es Twerking:

Twerking es una palabra del inglés que designa el acto de bailar provocativamente, con movimientos pélvicos sensuales, muy semejante al perreo del reguetón.

El twerking consiste en poner las manos en las caderas, tener las rodillas flexionadas, y realizar movimientos de cadera hacia dentro y hacia fuera de manera continua y repetitiva al ritmo de la música.

En el twerking se reconoce la influencia de las danzas africanas, como elmapouka, aunque es indudable su parecido con el perreo, que es un tipo de baile distintivo de la cultura del reguetón, cuya riqueza de movimientos y complejidad es, desde luego, superior.

En Estados Unidos, el twerking forma parte de la cultura hip-hop desde la década de 1990, no obstante, en su popularización mundial tuvieron mucho que ver celebridades del mundo del espectáculo, como Rihanna o Miley Cyrus. La primera, en mayo de 2013, incluyó en su video “Pour It Up” coreografías detwerking, mientras que la segunda lo danzó en su presentación durante los MTV Video Music Awards de agosto del mismo año, todo esto, desde luego, generó una inmensa repercusión mediática a nivel mundial.

Como tal, el vocablo twerking es un término de la cultura popular actual recientemente agregado de manera oficial al idioma inglés. En este sentido, es un anglicismo que proviene del verbo twerk, que según el Diccionario Oxford significa bailar música popular de manera sexualmente provocativa, lo que incluye una postura en cuclillas y movimientos de empuje de caderas. Se sospecha su origen hacia la década de 1990, a partir de una alteración del verbo work, que traduce ‘trabajar’.