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A dance born when robots and chickens taught funk to freeze mid-thought.
means The act of fastening something shut with a lock, or in dance, a funk style where you suddenly freeze a movement and hold the pose before snapping back into motion.
from From 'lock,' an Old English word ('loc') for a fastening or enclosure, with deep Germanic roots tied to the idea of closing or shutting. The dance sense is a 1970s American coinage: dancer Don Campbell gave it the name when his abrupt, held-still moves looked like the body had 'locked' in place — a literal freezing of the funk.
- origin
- Invented by Don Campbell in 1969 Los Angeles
- happy accident
- Born when Campbell forgot a move and froze
- signature
- Sudden full-body stops punctuating wild fluid motion
- the crew
- The Lockers wore striped socks and giant hats
- funk roots
- Danced to James Brown, not pop charts
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