Hoochie Coochie

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As Hoochie Coochie (as Hoochy Coochy , Hoochy Koochy or Hoochie Koochie occurring) is called an erotic dance form in the United States, which probably arose around 1870 and the belly dancing was inspired from the Arab and Turkish space.

Clothing and appearance

A short skirt, a bared waist, tight-fitting chest bands and the use of various veils were characteristic of a hoochie coochie dancer . The body was lavishly decorated with jewelry and hung with bells and small cymbals . The dancers mainly performed in so-called 'salons', bars with variety programs, vaudeville and burlesque shows , in which they quickly became a popular form of entertainment. Because of its erotic, physical expression (also known as 'muscle dance' in English), the Hoochie Coochie caused a sensation at public exhibitions and fairs and was soon a target for moralists.

history

Perhaps the first public hoochie coochie performance took place during the Philadelphia Centennial Fair in 1876. The dancer Farida Mazar caused a national uproar in 1893 with her erotic dance staging of the "Streets of Cairo" during the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exhibition). She was hired for this by the promoter Sol Bloom. As early as the 30s and 40s, the Hoochie Coochie no longer seems to exist in its spontaneous original form.

Situation in San Francisco

Herbert Asbury's (1933) description of a poverty and crime neighborhood in San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries also mentions dance stages where Hoochie Coochie was performed:

“The pièce de resistance of a Barbary Coast variety program was the lewd cavorting of a hoochy-coochy artiste, or the Dance of the Seven Veils as interpreted by a fat and clumsy Salome dancer, who simply wiggled a muscle dance to semi-classical music . Occasionally a few of the veils were omitted, and the dancer squirmed and twisted in very scanty raiment indeed. For some curious reason, perhaps to show that her strength and agility were not confined entirely to her abdominal muscles, the Salome dancer almost invariably concluded her performance by gripping a chair between her teeth and swinging it about her head. The variety shows, particularly those which included hoochy-coochy or Salome dancing, were very well liked, but it is doubtful if they alone could have made the Barbary Coast the extraordinarily popular place that it became during the last ten years of its existence. "

- Herbert Asbury

See also

literature

  • AW Stencell: Girls Show: Into the canvas world of bump and grind , 1999, Toronto: ECW Press

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://foottalk.blogspot.com/2005/05/hoochie-coochie.html
  2. ^ Herbert Asbury. 1933. The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. New York: AA head.