Editing Go-go dancing (section)

==In the 1960s==
On 19 June 1964, [[Carol Doda]] began go-go dancing [[Toplessness|topless]] at the [[Condor Club]] on Broadway and Columbus in the [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] neighborhood of [[San Francisco]].  She became the world's most famous topless and bottomless go-go dancer, dancing at the Condor for 22 years. In Canada, in 1966, Bonny Rush was mentioned as the country's first topless go-go dancer in the news media.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O5UtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4p8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6003%2C6201208|title=For Doing Her Part in Canadian Nationalism|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=31 December 1966|page=41 of 52|via=Google newspapers}}</ref> In general, however, go-go dancers in the 1960s did not work topless.<ref>{{cite book|title=Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLbZ8Q2PFb8C&pg=PA330|first1=Claudia|last1=Mitchell|first2=Jacqueline|last2=Reid-Walsh|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=2007|isbn=9780313339080|page=330}}</ref>

In 1964 the [[Los Angeles Metropolitan Area|Los Angeles]]–based club [[Whisky a Go Go]] began suspending go-go dancers above the audience in glass cages.<ref name=Glass>{{cite news|title=Go-Go Dancer Shares Secrets From the Platform|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/go-go-dancer-shares-secret-from-the-platform_b_3049522|website=Huffington Post|first=Nicole|last=Glass|date=10 April 2013}}</ref> Located on the [[Sunset Strip]] in [[West Hollywood]], the club hired scantily clad dancers wearing knee-high vinyl go-go boots (or occasionally the [[Courrèges boot]]s which inspired them) and mini skirts or mini [[flapper dress]]es.{{sfnp|Mitchell|Reid-Walsh|2007|page=328–330}} The club began to hire go-go dancers regularly in July 1965.

Go-go discotheques began to open across the United nations
.<ref name=Baugess-DeBolt/> In 1967 an article in ''[[Newsweek]]'' estimated that there were 8000 go-go dancers working in the US, aged mostly between 18 and 21.{{sfnp|Mitchell|Reid-Walsh|2007|page=330}} The majority of go-go dancers in the [[New York metropolitan area]] were migrants from Brazil.<ref>{{cite book|title=Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzmPhtmRZiAC&pg=PA359|first=Ana Y.|last=Ramos-Zayas|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date=2012|isbn=9780226703633|page=359}}</ref> Go-go dancing was generally performed to recorded music rather than a live band.<ref name=Curtis>{{cite magazine|magazine=Texas Monthly|date=August 1974|title=Pappy's Girls|author=Gregory Curtis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA74|page=74}}</ref> The go-go dancers danced on tables, in cages, on dance floors<ref name=Ebony>{{cite magazine|magazine=Ebony|title=Á Go-Go Girls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUBLURuzOxEC&pg=PA143|date=April 1966|volume=21|issue=6|issn=0012-9011|page=143}}</ref> or on small go-go stages.<ref name=Curtis/> Their role was to entertain the audience and demonstrate dance moves.<ref name=Ebony/> Many dancers hoped that go-go dancing would provide them a way into [[show business]].<ref name=Baugess-DeBolt/> Others simply earned money while travelling around the US as part of the [[counterculture of the 1960s]].<ref name=Curtis/> Earnings from go-go dancing in the mid-1960s were around $125–$200 per week.<ref name=Baugess-DeBolt/>

In Germany, ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', in an article on discotheque trends in April 1965, described the ''Scotch Kneipe'' and the ''Pussycat'' in [[Munich]] as the first discotheques in the country to feature go-go dancers performing in cages above the audience.<ref name="spiegel_04_1965">{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46272248.html|title=Diskothek: Irre laut |trans-title=Discothèque: Insanely Loud |language=de |date=14 April 1965 |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |pages=150–151 | access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> In Canada in 1967, a club in Montreal's  York Hotel began to employ the city's first go-go dancers. Other Montreal venues followed, including bars, hotels, taverns and strip clubs. The dancers initially wore pasties but over the years the amount of nudity shown increased.<ref>{{cite book|title=Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montréal: Resistance and Advocacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6nODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34|first=Francine|last=Tremblay|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2020|isbn=9781498593908|page=34}}</ref>

===Television and media===
Go-go dancers were employed as background dancers accompanying performances (real or lip-synced) by [[rock and roll]] bands on teen music programs in the mid-1960s. ''[[Hullabaloo (TV series)|Hullabaloo]]'' was a musical variety series that ran on [[NBC]] from 12 January 1965 – 29 August 1966. ''The Hullabaloo Dancers''—a team of four men and six women—appeared on a regular basis. Another female dancer, model/actress [[Lada Edmund,&nbsp;Jr.]], was best known as the caged "go-go girl" dancer in the ''Hullabaloo A-Go-Go'' segment near the closing sequence of the show. Other dance TV shows during this period such as [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Shindig!]]'' (16 September  1964 – 8 January 1966) also featured go-go dancers in cages. Sometimes these cages were made of clear plastic with lights strung inside of them; sometimes the lights were synchronized to go on and off with the music. ''[[Shivaree (TV series)|Shivaree]]'' (syndicated, 1965–1966), another music show, usually put go-go dancers on scaffolding and on a platform behind the band which was performing. ''[[Beat-Club]],'' a German show in the period, also used go-go dancers.<ref>{{cite web|website=MeTV|location=Chicago|date=2 October 2015|title=Shindig, Shivaree, Hullabaloo and the great rock & roll shows of 1965|url=https://www.metv.com/lists/shindig-shivaree-hullabaloo-and-the-great-rock-roll-shows-of-1965}}</ref> Each show of the period had a particular method of bringing the go-go dancers into camera view.

British go-go dancer Sandy Sarjeant became popular performing on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] music show ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]''.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

The US TV crime drama series ''[[Honey West (TV series)|Honey West]]'' (1965–1966) included an episode called "The Princess and the Paupers" which featured a go-go dancing sequence.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Go-go dancing became the subject of 1960s pop songs such as ''Little Miss Go-Go'' (1965) by [[Gary Lewis & the Playboys]] and ''[[Going to a Go-Go (song)|Going to a Go-Go]]'' (1965) by [[The Miracles]].{{sfnp|Mitchell|Reid-Walsh|2007|page=329}}