Twerking (/ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ/; possibly from 'to work') is a type of dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving throwing or thrusting the hips back or shaking the buttocks, often in a low squatting stance.[1] It is individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women.[2][3]
Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce".[4] 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.[5][6] Twerking is one among other types of choreographic gestures within bounce.
Twerking emerged from the bounce music scene of New Orleans in 1990.[7] It has a broader origin among other types of dancing found among the African diaspora that derives from Bantu-speaking Africans of Central Africa.[8]
As a tradition shaped by local aid and pleasure clubs, block parties and second lines,[9] the dance was central to "a historical situating of sissy bounce—bounce music as performed by artists from the New Orleans African-American community that [led to] a meteoric rise in popularity post-[Hurricane Katrina after 2005]."[10] In the 1990s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture throughout the hip-hop/rap region known as The Dirty South, including New Orleans, Memphis, Virginia Beach, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston.[9][10] In 2013, it became the top "what is" search on the Google search engine[11] following pop artist Miley Cyrus performing the dance at the MTV Video Music Awards.[12]
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