House jacking / house-dance community

CTL-E-0603 · Institution · other · 1980

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Jacking — the fluid torso-driven dance style — emerged in Chicago house clubs of the 1980s, with Warehouse, Power Plant, and Music Box connections. House dance is described as built by queer and Black Americans and organized around jacking, footwork, and lofting — a dance-floor vocabulary that traveled worldwide with the music.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-048; source research type(s): dance_community. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacking_(dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNMbidHM_I

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