Princess Lockerooo is a whirling force with a singular focus: spreading the gospel of waacking. For more than a decade, the 34-year-old devotee of the retro club dance has performed in competitions ...

Attending a waacking class feels like a spiritual experience. On a Monday night in August, at a studio in the Atlanta’s Creatives Rental Space, a group of 13 students — of all races and ethnicities — ...

"Whacking has given me confidence, freedom and a way to explore parts of myself I didn't know how to before." ...

Alice Bowman, 37, from Dennistoun, discovered whacking, a dance form originating in 1970s Los Angeles.

Whacking also known as waacking is rooted from punking. Whacking started in the 1970’s in Los Angeles’ gay clubs by Black, Latino and Asian gay men as a form of self expression. It was influenced by ...

When Vince Nguyen, MPH ’23, walks into the dance studio, he is no longer just a third-year Ph.D. student at Emory University working on his epidemiology dissertation. Instead, he becomes Vince “Venus” ...