What is the “hoochie-coochie dance”?
Originally, M. le Clairobscur, “hoochie-coochie dance” was a woman-exploitative exotic dance performed at American carnivals in the late 19th century, a chance to show women dancing scantily clad using the excuse of a “Biblical” theme like… Jezebel… or the Wh*re of Babylon… or the most perennially popular favorite, the striptease called Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils. This was America’s heartland, plain staunch Christian folk. You could get away with staging nude women as long as you invoked the Good Book. Bible-based sex workers. Sometimes I just have to ponder how utterly bizarre we Americans must seem to the rest of the world…
P.S. The great modern dancer of the early 20th century, Ruth St. Denis, introduced America to Middle Eastern and Indian dance that she had researched. She got her start as a hoochie coochie dancer, and used her brilliant creativity to turn it into fine art.
This concept of religious themed strip-tease is indeed really weird.
I can now tell with near certainty that french women don’t do the “hoochie-coochie dance”… (or else a vast conspiracy is hiding it from me). French women probably aren’t religious enough. Too bad…
I am shattered. What other certaincies of my childhood will you destroy? Next, you’ll tell me there’s no place in France where the ladies wear no pants!
But … there is a whole city now in Spain where both men and ladies are legally allowed to go around wearing no pants (or anything else for that matter). That’s something you can fill the gaping hole with (the hole left by the shattered childhood certaincies, mind you, not the dark pits left uncovered by the OP).