Waacking Workshop with Reggie La'Vince January 31, 2012

2011 International Waackfest Champion Reggie La'vince brings you a fierce Bay Area Waacking workshop that focuses on the confidence and arm strengthening aspect of the dance and character building . This class will teach the tools and technique of interpreting the music and being the living embodiment of music.

The Waacking/Punk style of street/club dance, can trace its roots back to the nightclub culture of the late 60's in New York City. Disco Music was the perfect vehicle for Waacking, with its driving rhythms and hard beats. In the early 1970s in Los Angeles, dancer Lamont Peterson was one of the first to start using his arms and body to the music. Dancers such as Mickey Lord, Tyrone Proctor and Blinky fine tuned the arms movements, by making the arms and hands go fast to the driving disco beat. During the mid 1970s club dancers Tinker, Arthur, Andrew, Lonnie Carbajal, Michael Angelo, Billy Starr, Tyrone Proctor, Jody Watley,Billy Goodson, Danny Logo, took center stage with others dancers perfecting those synchronize syncopated movements.At the time Waacking was primarily a Black and Latino dance. Many people mistakenly believe that “Waacking” came from “Locking” because some of the movements are very similar. Although waacking and Locking do have some similarities, they are different dances. Waacking/Punking is the original name of the dance, and also pre dates the east coast vogue.