One collective, "WAFFLE (We are Family for Life Entertainment)", has been repeatedly profiled by media, including one of its members appearing on Season 8 of America's Got Talent. Nudes-A-Poppin' is an annual pageant in the United States for nude women and men competing in erotic dance.It is the best-known nude event in Indiana, and has been held annually since 1975, except when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 20. In January 2015, the TA launched a publicity campaign, Courtesy Counts, Manners Make a Better Ride, including the anti-Showtime slogan "Poles Are For Your Safety, Not Your Latest Routine", alongside other advertisements against manspreading, "pole hogging", and public nail clipping. Performers have been arrested for reckless endangerment.
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In March 2014, New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the New York City Police Department would, under the broken windows theory philosophy, prosecute quality of life crimes against Showtime and subway dancers for breaking the MTA’s policy against performing and panhandling on the trains, citing that performances have been on the upswing since 2008. Some hip-hop dancers on the subway have looked down on the common litefeet moves used by other buskers. Litefeet, a type of dance that emerged from Harlem and the Bronx, succeeds breakdancing / b-boying emerging in the 1980s. Estimates have placed the number of Showtime dancers in the low hundreds. Showtime includes acrobatic flips, hat and shoe tricks, and pole tricks. Showtime is a type of performance Litefeet/ pole dancing done as a busking routine using hand holds installed inside New York City Subway cars.