Go-go dancers are
dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at
nightclubs or other clubs 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. It is also claimed that go-go dancing originated at, and was named for, the very popular L.A. rock club
Whiskey A Go Go which opened in January 1964. Many 1960s-era
clubgoers wore
miniskirts and knee-high, high-heeled boots, which eventually came to be called
go-go boots. Night
club promoters in the mid-1960s then conceived the idea of hiring women dressed in these outfits to entertain patrons.