Editing Go-go dancing (section)

{{short description|Form of nightclub entertainment}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Go-go]], an unrelated subgenre of funk music}}
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[[File:Gogo_Dancer_Cherry_Lei_by_Photocyclone.jpg|thumb|Modern go-go dancer Cherry Lei at ''The Fix'', in [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]] in 2014]]
[[File:Lead Photo For Go-go boot0-6405956067610532.JPG|thumb|Go-go boot]]

'''Go-go dancers''' are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at [[nightclub]]s<ref>Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief ''Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary'' Springfield, Massachusetts, 1984--Merriam-Webster Page 525</ref> or other venues where music is played. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s at the French bar Whisky a Gogo, located in the town of [[Juan-les-Pins]]. The bar's name was taken from the French title of the Scottish comedy film ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]''&thinsp;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Levy|first=Shawn|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111699686|title=The castle on Sunset : life, death, love, art, and scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont|date=2020|isbn=978-0-525-43566-2|edition=First Anchor books|location=New York|oclc=1111699686}}</ref> The French bar then licensed its name to the West Hollywood rock club [[Whisky a Go Go]], which opened in January 1964 and chose the name to reflect the already popular craze of go-go dancing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/greatest-rock-venues-1112.aspx |title=Showtime! The 10 Greatest Rock Venues of All Time |publisher=Gibson.com |date=12 November 2010 |access-date=13 June 2015 |author=Russell Hall |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414065042/http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/greatest-rock-venues-1112.aspx |archive-date=14 April 2012 }}</ref> Many 1960s-era nightclub dancers wore short, fringed skirts and high boots<ref name=Baugess-DeBolt>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JscEZeXBsZYC&pg=PA253|editor1-first=James S.|editor1-last=Baugess|editor2-first=Abbe Allen|editor2-last=DeBolt|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2011|isbn=9780313329449|page=253}}</ref> which eventually came to be called [[go-go boot]]s. Nightclub [[Promoter (entertainment)|promoter]]s in the mid‑1960s then conceived the idea of hiring women dressed in these outfits to entertain patrons.