Go-go dancing Go-go dancing Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at nightclubs or other venues where music is played. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s, by some accounts when women at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City began to get up on tables and dance the twist. Some claim that go-go dancing originated at, and was named after, the very popular Los Angeles rock club Whisky a Go Go which opened in January 1964, but the opposite may be true – the club chose the name to reflect the already popular craze of go-go dancing. Many
The Go!! Show local solo performers, while "Kommotion" (which was in part modelled on the American series, "Shindig!") pursued a more group- and chart-oriented format, as well as featuring a troupe of go-go dancers and a regular team of young performers who mimed to the latest overseas hits. "The Go!! Show" was made by DYT Productions, a production company founded and run by veteran Australian musician Horrie Dargie with partners Arthur Young and Johnny Tillbrook. It premiered in August 1964, just after the Beatles' Australian tour and Channel 0's inaugural broadcast. It was videotaped before a live audience, with early episodes being one-hour