Gold Coast fitness studio slammed for uploading ‘vile’ video at Uluru

A GOLD COAST ‘twerking’ fitness studio has shut down it’s website and social media pages following backlash to ‘vile’ video.

The video showed a woman twerking on top of Uluru.

A GOLD COAST fitness studio has been forced to shut down their social media accounts and website page after being inundated with negative comments over a video they posted on Instagram, which showed a woman ‘twerking’ and posing suggestively while visiting Uluru.

Werkit Twerk Dance Fitness reportedly uploaded a short clip of a client dressed in their merchandise while dancing on the sacred site. Her singlet read: ‘Twerking is my Cardio’.

Before being removed, the video was captioned: “Look! It’s our #Werkit babe repping #WerkIt on top of one of Australia’s most iconic landmarks”.

The video showed a woman twerking on top of Uluru.

Instead of praise, their Instagram page was inundated with comments deeming the post as “vile”, “disgusting” and “culturally insensitive”.

“Please educate yourselves and apologise,” one woman wrote on Instagram alongside another of their twerking videos.

“This kind of stuff is not OK and needs to be called out.”

“You need to make a public apology to the indigenous community for your disrespectful post,” another comment read.

Since the backlash, the fitness studio has shut down their Instagram and Facebook pages, as well as their website.

News.com.au has reached out to Werkit Twerk Dance Fitness for comment.

Following the posting of the video, which was removed from Instagram last week, one person called for compensation, saying the video was an insult to the indigenous community.

On Facebook, commenters questioned why the fitness studio would use a sacred site for “cheap advertising”.

The woman was snapped ‘twerking’ on Uluru. Picture: iStock

“How clever of you to climb a sacred space that traditional owners have asked you not to climb, and then twerk,” the Facebook post read.

“Your level of disrespect is disgraceful!”

‘Twerking’ is a type of dance originating as part of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late 1980s.

Individually-performed, chiefly but not exclusively by women, dancers move in a sexually-provocative manner throwing or thrusting their hips back or shaking their buttocks, often in a low squatting stance.

Miley Cyrus twerks onstage during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for MTV.

The dance move was used excessively by singer and actress Miley Cyrus at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

According to Parks Australia, while scaling Uluru is not prohibited, they ask visitors to “respect our law and culture by not climbing”.

“The climb can be dangerous,” the government website read. “Too many people have died while attempting to climb Uluru.”

The fitness studio offers two types of classes, one called ‘Twerk Dance’ and the other as ‘Booty Building’. Both areas of exercise focus on toning and cardio.