Shake Dance: Twerkin’ Old Skool

The strippers of Atlanta's famous "Gold Coast"

Jay Ski McGowan

PARIS, DIVINE, TROUBLE, HENESSEY and BABYDOLL are all world-class practitioners of an exotic dance technique known as the Shake Dance. Performing for packed houses in Atlanta’s notorious Gold Coast region, they are part of an elite class of stripper, capable of shaking their lower bodies to music driving at up to 140 beats per minute. Some see themselves as artists. Some are in it for the money. None of them are going back to their day jobs any time soon. Shake Dance offers an unblinking look into Atlanta’s legendary strip club scene and the lives of these beautiful, strong-willed, and incredibly sexy women.