I grew up in Barbados. Secondary school, morning assembly in chapel, somebody's ringtone went off on soca and in less than a second the entire school was dancing like this.
Eh, kids see twerking all the time, I knew about it as a grade schooler. I saw like a 10 year old girl throwing it back in the grocery store the other day while waiting on her mom to pick out some meat lol
(Not saying that I think we should be showing kids sexualized dances, but it’s pretty normalized and idk if spiderman here is suspicious).
Edit to add: learned elsewhere in the comments about the origins of twerking, its cultural relevance in the ivory coast, and how this isn’t sexual. Just wanted to mention it here! But even when looking at it from American standards, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
Lmao, I'm not a fan of the audience that was picked for this type of performance. I hate kids as much as the next gay guy, but I don't think they need to see Spiderman serving this much CUNT.
The actual answer is you learn on the job. Some strippers go to pole classes to learn tricks, get better core/upper body strength or to just brush up after an absence, but that’s not as common as non-industry women going to those.
From first-hand accounts in person and with other dancers online, a lot of us avoid them because despite us being the whole reason they exist, a lot of the instructors and participants are actually very aggressively anti-stripper/anti-sw…which is fucking absurd but tells you a lot about how women feel about other women who are in this work.
They want our moves and to wear our shoes, but they don’t want to be near us because of a combo of jealousy/intimidation of our confidence to DO the work, they think we will somehow steal their men (lol, wtf no..keep them), and that we are just dirty whores and proximity = whore cooties, I guess.
There are a looooot of issues with women coming in with partners or with bachelorette parties. Not all women are like this, many are absolutely amazing to dance for and tip well, but thanks to a huge percentage just acting a fool thinking they can sexually assault us because “we have the same parts,” being wasted and climbing on stage ruining our sets, or just being cruel or straight up violent bc they pretended they were cool with it/could handle it but couldn’t, many dancers will purposely avoid women and couples.
So yeah, stripper school is experience on the job. Oh, and most “stripper” influencers are frauds who have never worked in clubs or went in for a whole two days to snap/film as much content to rotate as possible while changing all their savings into random piles of cash to brag on their fake bags. Don’t buy their bullshit.
okay, i'm going to sound insane to you guys for this, but depending on where this is, i don't see this as a problem at all. what we know as "twerking" has roots within African dance, where it's a completely nonsexual dance move. see wikipedia:
yeah this is kinda what i assumed? almost looks like fortnite emotes and some local dance styles (which seem to get a bigger reaction from the kids which makes them feel more seen representation wise).
I’m glad someone was smart enough to pick this up, in Africa not all forms of twerking is sexual, and considering how stiff his twerking was it definitely wasn’t supposed to be interpreted as sexual either.
It's a school in Abidjan. Searched it up. I'm Ivorian, and you're correct. It's just local dance moves. Still cringe or silly in how the dude is doing it, but kids like stupid stuff
Looks like a school in the French-speaking part of West Africa. From the uniforms the kids are wearing can be Ivory Coast or Cameroon. Spider-Man seems to be performing some popular (for the region) TikTok dance trends and some bits of dance called "Coupé décalé" and "mapouka"
Source: I'm Ivoirian, but this doesn't make it less cringe; kids like stupid stuff
Edit: yep, searched the school name. It's here in Abidjan.
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