Video: Hundreds set new twerking world record in New York New Orleans rap artist Big Freedia provided the music as 358 "twerkers" set a Guinness World Record for Most People Twerking Simultaneously in New York City's Herald Square on Wednesday. Participants, who aged from eight to 80 years of age, danced for two minutes straight in order to set the new record. The dance move, brought to wider fame by US pop star Miley Cyrus, has been defined by the Oxford dictionary as a "dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance." Although many Miley Cyrus fans may think she invented the move, it actually first started in the 1990's in the southern region of the US.