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It's meaning is derived from the French
"couche," past part of "coucher" which means
"to lay down." The Hootchy-Kootchy (Hoochi-Coochi)
or Cooch dance is a pseudo-Turkish, sensual dance executed only
by women in short skirts, bare midriffs and tight breastbands, which
is said to have originated at the Philadelphia Centennial Fair (May-Nov-1876.)
The term has been carried over to mean any so-called
partnerless female "Sexy or Risqué" dance performed
at fairs, Carnivals, Saloons and Burlesques clubs etcetera where
women would be encouraged (or exploited) to perform such
dances in a more provocative manner originally used to help gain
attendance to sell alcohol to the patrons of a saloon etc. Dances
such as the The Can-Can, Belly
Dance, Danse du ventre, Striptease
(see Burlesque), Bubble
dance, Fan Dance, Serpentine
Dance, Peek-a-boo Dance, etcetera
have all been lumped into this category. The Hootchy Cootchy dance
would also be known as Oriental Dance, but was no relation to the
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today.
In later days the Belly
dance (aka: Raks Sharki) would also be associated with
this title just like the Oriental dances due to their erotic nature
by promoters such as Sol Bloom and as well as many Belly dancers
exploiting their own art form to make a fast buck in evolving times.
These dancers and promoters would use many movements of the belly
dance to entice their audience so as to gain financial freedom.
However the Belly dance did play an important role in the development
of the Hoochi-Coochi dance, the Belly and Oriental dances are not,
repeat not, a Hootchy-Kootchy dance form, even though they are listed
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Ballets / Stage / Fairs etc |
1894 - Danse de Ventre |
3/27/1959 - Ellery Queen (Shery Britton) |
1876 - Philadelphia Centennial
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1894 - Oriental Belly
Dance |
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1893 - Chicago
World's Fair (Columbian Exhibition) |
1896 - Fatima's
Coochie-Coochie dance |
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1904 - Louisiana
Purchase Exposition |
1897 - Dolorita Passion
Dance |
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1897 - Fatima (Fatima's
Belly Dance) |
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1897 - Fatima's
Belly Dance |
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1897 - Little
Egypt I,II,III |
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1897 - Parisian Dance |
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1899 - Dance in a Turkish
Harem |
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1901 - Coochie Dance
on the Midway |
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1901 - Táncz,
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Publications |
1901 - Turkish Dance |
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1/27/1898 - Evening Sentinel
(seeks death after Hoochi) |
1901 - Turkish Dance:
Ella Lola |
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5/26/1929 - Charleston
Gazette (Fairs cleaned Up) |
1903 - From Showgirl
to Burlesque Queen |
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8/6/1933 - Syracuse
Herals (Hoochi-Coochi is Can Can) |
1904 - Princess Rajah
Dance |
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11/26/1964 - Daily Review (Belly Dancers
once Hoochi) |
1908 - Salome: Dance
of the Seven Veils |
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1909 - Salome Music
Dance |
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1910 - Queen of the
Burlesque |
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1910 - The Burlesque
Queen |
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1913 - Persian Dance:
Eightpence a Mile |
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Police Gazette
Newspaper |
1920 - The Hooch Ball |
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1930 - Hootchy
Cootchy Parlais Vous |
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1932 - Burlesque |
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Death Mask (Linnea Quigley) |
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| I'm No Angel (Mae West) |
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