Josephine Baker invented twerking 87 years ago,
as evidenced in this 1927 video from the Folies Bergère in Paris, France.
“She enters through a dense electric twilight, walking backwards on hands and feet, legs and arms stiff, down a huge jungle tree as a creature neither infrahuman nor superhuman but somehow both: a mysteriously unkillable Something, equally non-primitive and uncivilized, or beyond time in the sense that emotion is beyond arithmetic.”
– e.e. cummings
(I think maybe e.e. needs to lie down and put a cool rag across his forehead.)
That’s what I always tell Wizzo to do when he’s angry at me.
– Indy