But whether or not you celebrate the holiday, you can surely appreciate this voguing Santa doing what voguing Santas do best: falling to the ground.
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They pay a choreographer to teach them fake voguing, and then put it in they videos, and then everybody's like, "Oh, that's voguing," when it's not.
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I've been able to showcase voguing in different art forms, where people are intrigued by it and want to know more, to the point where voguing is becoming mainstream and international.
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Even with voguing, it's completely different from what it was.
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It's not because I want to discourage people from voguing.
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But there's a lack of actual voguing because of it.
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Your style of voguing appears to have influenced many mainstream musicians.
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Voguing is a dance that features sharp poses and arm movements.
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It's a fun, upscale fantasy, a voguing competition in executive realness.
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"Voguing is not just a dance form -- it's self-expression," Saad says.
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Because I feel like that's the thing that people, when voguing, they forget.
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The bird knows 14 distinct dance moves including Voguing, headbanging, and body rolling.
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There was also obviously a lot of voguing, gogo dancing and ecstatic, dilated pupils.
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When Leiomy talks about voguing being "real," I imagine this is what she means.
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With voguing you can incorporate hip-hop, ballet, modern, and any other style of dance.
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Because of me, voguing has become more acrobatic, more of a daredevil style of dance.
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But performance aside, voguing creates a space of empowerment for the community that created it.
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My advice: Don't take the bait when "The Third Hotel" starts voguing like a thriller.
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Saad says he was the first person to "take voguing seriously" in the Middle East.
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Read: Traditional Arab menswear gets a style upgrade "Voguing means everything to me," he says.
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Historically, the young queer people of color who created voguing got little credit for the phenomenon.
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Megan Thee Stallion is also a judge, as is stylist Law Roach and voguing legend Leiomy Maldonado.
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Voguing is now ubiquitous in pop culture, appearing everywhere from Beyoncé's music videos to Paris fashion week.
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The popular documentary Paris Is Burning (1990) brought voguing and the ballroom scene into mainstream pop culture.
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And the guy who's my mentor, he's also been around since the 90s, but he's known for voguing.
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Voguing has gone from an underground movement to a celebrated art form, without losing any of its mystique.
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Make no mistake when we say this is some of the best voguing we've seen in a while.
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In fact, the 54-year-old Princess Magnifique (né Bernard Prince Thomas) began Voguing in the late '70s.
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And then, renowned voguing expert Benny Ninja taught a vogue workshop at the school, and everything changed for Rodriguez.
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She moved in elastic slow motion, every limb flexible, merging the techniques of voguing with a hint of Asia.
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Miss Tony was a 6-foot, 300-pound queer icon you'd frequently see voguing through dancefloors, dressed in drag.
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He says his path into club music was sparked by fortuitous YouTube hole, in which he stumbled upon voguing.
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Video by Rouba Noureddine New York City was where voguing, a dance form featuring elaborate body movements, first emerged.
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Usually I only teach voguing, but on Pose I had to teach them how to do different categories, like runway.
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Some things in voguing look crazy, and if you try it without knowing what you're doing, you might get hurt.
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She delivered standouts from her latest project "Sweet Sexy Savage," complete with impressive dance moves, voguing and her signature swagger.
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When we think of voguing, Madonna's 1990 hit song and music video are the first things that come to mind.
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Expect a kitschy set, voguing models and a million posts on Instagram: The label's fans can't seem to get enough.
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"Gays when we get drafted into WW3," read another in a video of TikToker Sir Carter voguing with Nerf guns.
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The reason they call me "Wonder Woman" is because of the things I'm able to do with my body while voguing.
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Kiki picks up over two decades after Paris Is Burning introduced mainstream audiences to the performative practice of voguing and balls.
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Instead, she pursued LA's voguing scene and became one of the few women on the West Coast to join a house.
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No, they're kids between 24 to 23 years old and they only do sorts of krump dance-offs or voguing balls!
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A lot of the dancers were straight, the voguing dancers were mostly gay, so I brought together dancers from different families.
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Well in the 80s, when voguing first started, it was more about emulating poses and basically imitating supermodels and people in magazines.
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There's beauty in both styles, and overall I just feel like voguing itself is a style of dance that's unlike any other.
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My cousin, who was active in the scene in Atlanta, sent me clips of the kids voguing down in Atlanta and NYC.
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But before the Material Girl appropriated the moves, voguing was a dance style mainly performed by queer and transgender people of color.
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Voguing, which originated in the city's LGBTQ communities of color, has been a dominant force in culture for the past 20 years.
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Check out the video above to learn more about the origins of voguing and the houses that continue to support the culture.
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The excitement of seeing megastars voguing started to wear off, though, when some realized it wouldn't have lasting effects for the broader community.
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Kia LaBeija is a legendary dancer and artist known for her strong voguing style, stunning portrait photography, and street-elegant dance performance videos.
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While living in France, I joined the House of UltraOmni a year prior, which is one of the original New York voguing houses.
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The Kiki scene is composed of a system of "houses," or teams, the members of which compete in voguing competitions for cash prizes.
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The marching band's dance moves are followed by Maldonado voguing in a dance studio, both on her own and accompanied by other dancers.
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In Berlin, the scene was fostered by a cis hetero Black woman, Mother Leo Saint Laurent, who spent years teaching voguing throughout Germany.
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RBMA Festival New York also features the premiere of KIKI, a Sundance favorite about voguing and its significance to LGBTQ youth of color.
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The GLAAD and MAGNUM New York event has all the makings of a queer celebration — drag queens, voguing, and a healthy dose of bass.
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When I teach, I come across people who have studied voguing and know about it, but also people who don't know anything about it.
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In the film's third act, Willi Ninja, the Godfather of Voguing, one of the scene's signature dance styles, has become an in-demand name.
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The unscripted show plans to showcase the art of voguing and ball culture, a competitive modern dance style that incorporations both fashion and choreography.
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Throughout the film's two-year production, Mercado remains a consummate performer, flirting and voguing for the camera and always ready with a quippy answer.
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He initially held back from commenting on her controversial involvement in new voguing show Legendary and recent accusations of Munchausen syndrome per her request.
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Citizens of Emerald City filled the stage in luminous, Tron-esque outfits, and proceeded to deliver some of the best voguing we've seen in years.
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Jameela Jamil has come out as queer following backlash she received after being announced as a judge on HBO Max's upcoming voguing competition series "Legendary."
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Do you ever fear that people will only take it at face value and not understand that it's more than just voguing and fancy costumes?
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The song would strip voguing of its time and place, its context and its inherent politics—it would also become one of Madonna's biggest hits.
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She also credited the creators of the dance she's become famous for, voguing, which was developed in Harlem's 1980s ballroom scene by young gay men.
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On a windy Brooklyn pier, as "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent" boomed, Murphy filmed dancers voguing in acid-washed jackets and Kangol hats.
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Broadway star Juan Torres-Falcon recently decided to ring in his 29th birthday by performing 29 death drops (a voguing move) across New York City.
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This year I'm particularly excited about Trajal Harrell's mashup of postmodern dance and voguing and Paul Lazar's choreographed recitation of John Cage's one-minute stories.
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Most importantly, voguing and ball culture grew exclusively from the LGBT community and communities of color, who often formed competing houses of their chosen families.
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I feel like voguing is going to be seen more and more, but my only issue is people coming to the right people to learn it.
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Miss Bruce and a gay friend are swept away by their memories and begin voguing around the salon to the cheers of clients and other stylists.
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" Last week, "The Good Place" star faced backlash following the announcement of her newest gig as a judge on HBO Max's upcoming voguing competition series "Legendary.
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Shortly after the announcement, actress Trace Lysette revealed that she had interviewed for a judge role but, despite actually hailing from the voguing community, was overlooked.
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On today's episode of Daily VICE, we death drop on the history of voguing with some of the most talented figures in New York's ballroom scene.
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Filming himself voguing outside a Gucci store wearing outfits designed by his schizophrenic mother, Satterwhite occupies the gap his queerness creates between himself and conventional society.
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A continuation of ballroom voguing that gained mainstream attention after the 1991 documentary Paris is Burning, kiki'ing is a style of performance perfected in underground LGBTQ+ scenes.
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Voguing is unlike any other dance with it's beautiful display of contrasts—soft, fluid twirls and contortions contend against harder, friction-filled locks, dips, and death drops.
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In Jumatatu Poe's work, movements that appear classical blend seamlessly with voguing, African dance movements, and J-Sette, a style sprung out of black Southern drill teams.
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I feel conspicuous, but because I'm in a beginner voguing class on a Wednesday afternoon with students almost a decade younger than me, I'm not particularly embarrassed.
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Seeing voguing for the first time inspired Madonna's 1990 classic "Vogue," and the scene was exposed on a national scale in Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris is Burning.
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It's a totally different world: He's in a loft filled with balloons and glitter, everyone is voguing, gorgeous trans models are walking the runway, the music is bumping.
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When most think of Madonna, cone-shaped bras and voguing instantly come to mind — but in reality, the pop icon is so much more than a material girl.
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The dance form known as voguing started in the late 1980s, but its roots can be traced back to Harlem's drag ballroom competitions as early as the 1920s.
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This is especially true as both queer and dance communities around the world continue building their own ballroom events and holding voguing classes without the same depth of knowledge.
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Aside from Corey, Jay and Samantha came up in the ballroom scene not too many years apart from each other and remember voguing as it was before social media.
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It's hard to tell how long the current voguing craze will last, but the careers and projects spurring from this community-lead phase may well have a lasting ripple effect.
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Or the raw energy of the gay kids voguing out the angst of being rejected by their families and society in the one place they were welcome on Christopher Street.
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The show is built on a series of interviews Newsome did with a variety of trans women, both inside and outside of the voguing performances he's been producing for years.
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The underground community gained national attention after the release of the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, which featured voguing and lingo like "reading" and throwing shade for the first time.
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The opera masks, the suggestive costumes, and the dance moves are cultural nomenclature slapped on a TV. Despite the mainstream interest, voguing still lies behind a thin veil of exuberant mystery.
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Ever articulate, both verbally and visually, the 26-year-old artist also discusses how her background as a dancer (particularly in voguing) influences her compositions, and who her biggest role models are.
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One sticker pays homage to the roots of voguing in communities of color, while another is an eye with the trans flag in its iris to show the importance of trans visibility.
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The former presenter was announced as the host of an upcoming HBO competition series called "Legendary" which focuses on ballroom and voguing, two elements of queer culture rooted in the black community.
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Challenges ran the gamut from turning 216-cent store items into haute couture, hosting talk shows, and voguing down the runway à la the seminal New York nightlife documentary Paris Is Burning.
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In the late 220s, they adopted a new dance called "voguing," inspired by the elegant poses of the women they saw parading down Fifth Avenue and splashed in fashion magazines like Vogue.
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Jose Gutierez was a freshman or sophomore in high school when he joined the Xtravaganzas, but was already out-voguing every queen on the circuit, with the possible exception of Willi Ninja.
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Inspired by the deathless New York City ballroom scene doc Paris Is Burning, the Hector Dockrill-directed clip follows a group of dancers, including real-life members of London and Paris voguing scenes.
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However, what many outsiders may not immediately take away is that voguing is more than a form of expression for the LGBTQ youth of color that make up the vast majority of performers.
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Video by Rouba Noureddine "I'm not sure of any voguing scenes elsewhere in the Middle East -- and that's because, in other Middle Eastern countries, people are more discreet about such issues," he says.
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Today, there's still some risk that history could repeat itself, as celebrities from Miley Cyrus to Ariana Grande jump on the voguing craze, but leaders in the community are pushing to rewrite the story.
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Related: Inside Rashaad Newsome's Miami Art Parade [Exclusive] Hip-Hop, Voguing, and Heraldry Meet in Rashaad Newsome's New Video Listen And Download Rashaad Newsome's 'Swag The Mix Tape' Dan Colen Exposes Himself | Studio Visit
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I see a difference between the most skillful dancer incorporating voguing into his or her routine and the people that I know in the Kiki scene that are expressing the struggles of their life.
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Season two, meanwhile, takes place across 1990 and 1991, beginning with the explosion of interest in voguing following Madonna's hit video for the song "Vogue," and concluding at another Mother of the Year competition.
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Was there any way out of the cycle whereby white people rebrand our cultural movements for their own entertainment, only to devalue our ancestry and erase the real stories behind voguing, ballroom, and house music?
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You seem them voguing down, you see them expressing the femininity in a masculine body or a trans body, and maybe you don't get how dangerous it is to express that in the outside world.
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House Mother Willi Ninja (who is never shown in drag) of House of Ninja is a choreographer, a graceful and agile man who takes from icons like Fred Astaire and turns out powerhouse voguing moves.
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Something about the voguing, it just spoke to me, and I found a way to use that in my early stages to express my anger and everything that I was going through during my transition.
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David's stuff and the weird voguing, dancing sculptures of us in "I Am Chemistry" are kind of the ruins of the world, but this is going to be on an entirely different type of planet.
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Last September, Cardi B, as she's best known, took New York Fashion Week by storm, appearing at the VFiles show with her now-fiancé Offset, voguing with Pat McGrath, and even performing at Alexander Wang's #WangFest.
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Equally basking in glorious weirdness, the video itself was filmed on a 2001 Sony camcorder at a NYC club night in the summer of 2015, and features a lot of night-vision, voguing, and intentional distortion.
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Gia Marie Love, one of the stars of the documentary and House of Juicy mother, discusses the need to pair voguing with critical dialogue about the lived experiences of people who are part of the Kiki scene.
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Whether it's voguing, protesting anti-trans HB2 legislation in North Carolina or using performance art to assert the lived experiences of trans people, trans activism is innovative in its use of art to move toward greater equality.
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He helped me understand how Harlem Renaissance–era drag shows planted the roots of ball culture as we know it and how ball icon Paris Dupree pioneered voguing from Harlem's famous "Better Days" club in the 70s.
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Alternating between interviews of ball participants and footage from the actual balls, Paris Is Burning was the first major work to delve into balls, voguing, and the families that marginalized LGBTQ+ individuals made for themselves in house culture.
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Ulysses finds a new kind of family with queer youth on New York City's Christopher Street Pier, who invite him along to "Saturday Church"—a weekly sanctuary where they eat, hang out, and practice voguing for upcoming balls.
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Once Jamil was announced as a lead judge on the upcoming ballroom and voguing competition series "Legendary," critics said the then-presumed straight actress with no ties to queer ball culture was a choice that reeked of LGBTQ appropriation.
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Yoshida: This documentary about the current-day NYC ballroom scene and the LGBTQ youths who live by it is a much-needed update to the beloved 1990 voguing doc Paris is Burning, set in a much more hopeful time.
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Drawn to a "Montreal milieu that was inclusive in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race and language," she would come to take photos at a number of Jenkins' events, and was at Sex Garage to document people voguing there.
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Filmed when the world of drag ball houses and queer voguing culture teemed with energy and vibrance, Paris Is Burning has attracted lingering criticism for framing the culture through the eyes of a white documentary filmmaker, director Jennie Livingston.
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The Love & Hip Hop alum has been making the rounds this NYFW, checking out the VFiles show with rumored beau rapper Offset, judging Pat McGrath's voguing ball on Thursday, and checking out the most-hyped Helmut Lang show on Thursday.
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On Saturday, she brought the magic to Pride in London, voguing her way through her celebrated routine, backpack and all, and finishing with a casual split — all in a casually steamy summer temperature of 28 degrees Celsius (22018 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Shoutout to Harlem, to her Taino and Yoruban and white Boricuan ancestry, to the hood girls, to the queer communities who helped raise her since she was 11 years old, just a child tagging along to voguing competitions at the club.
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Among the most frequent were the "downward" move, the team's term for his signature head bob, the "headbang with lifted foot" and his take on "voguing," in which Snowball rapidly waved his head side-to-side with one claw in the air.
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As they explain in a video introducing the initiative, it doesn't matter if you're voguing or flexing—the goal is to get as many virtual "claps" as you can, so it's in your advantage to try to get friends to sign up.
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Paris Is Burning "Voguing is an art, as well as a political statement" might be the thesis statement of Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning, which chronicles the underground ballroom culture of the black and Latino queer community in 1980s New York.
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The video ICON (2014) blends the influences of the black LGBTQ communities with abstracted and contemporary ideas of heraldry to reveal figures voguing to a ballroom bass-heavy beat through architectural structures comprised of Cuban link chains and other diamond encrusted bling.
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According to an article published by Red Bull Music Academy, the Love Ball is said to be where Madonna saw voguing for the first time; her 23 hit "Vogue" paid homage to the dance style's fluid hand gestures and elegant arcs of movement.
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In 1989, a few music videos—like Janet Jackon's "Alright" and Queen Latifah's "Come Into My House"—featured voguing backup dancers, and nightlife leaders held an AIDS benefit "Love Ball," where vogue stars mingled with celebs like supermodel Iman and designer André Leon Talley.
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Harrell presented (S) at the New Museum in 2009 and has developed several related works in different "sizes" under the umbrella title of Twenty Looks, imaginatively dealing with the Judson Church dance revolution downtown in the 1960s and the separate uptown eruption of voguing.
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To many queer kids who had hitherto only known of voguing through its few mainstream representations – Madonna's 203 hit "Vogue," for example, and Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston's classic documentary of the same year – discovering that it was alive and well was a revelation.
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And, with the exception of Michelle Visage—who spent years voguing in New York's ballroom scene—is predominantly run by LGBTQ people, from the contestants, to the host, all the way up to production company Word of Wonder (founded by filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato).
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After all, voguing is both a fantasy and an act of defiance—the dancers know they will probably never end up on the cover of Vogue, but engage in a performance of upward-mobility in the face of systematic injustice, reclaiming feminine beauty from rich white women.
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" Valenti is a writer as well as a New York underground nightlife fixture, whose claims to fame include penning a cover story for Details in 1988 on the Harlem voguing scene (predating not just Madonna's track but also Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris is Burning) and coining the term "cyberslut.
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And, like members of American voguing houses, they provided enduring inspiration to people like the Japanese designer Junya Watanabe, who not only based his fall 2015 men's wear collection on the sapeurs, but also imported some of the movement's most prominent members to walk in his Paris show.
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And the stunts were outrageous: Over the course of the weekend, Gemma Bubblegum fisted a "muppet" (read: human) to a song by Jason Segel and newly crowned Miss Bushwig Serena Tea brought the house down transforming out of a literal custom car bodysuit before voguing the house down.
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"While the resurgence in its popularity across the globe is fantastic, I'm a little nervous that voguing is crossing over into the mainstream and the ballroom scene may be losing its connection to its roots which were historically marginalized urban Black and Latino gay and trans communities," Jenkins told Dazed.
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As society has become more inclusive, those of us within the ballroom scene — a community of predominantly black and Latino L.G.B.T.Q. people who compete in fashion and performance categories like "Voguing" at events called "balls" — are debating the ways in which the changing cultural landscape affects how we view ourselves and approach our art.
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In line with the collection's club kid aesthetics—the ads hilariously include a model holding poppers in his mouth, and designer Nicola Formichetti has made no secret of his love for nightlife—de Castro's video follows two warring clans of ballerinas and punks voguing in an improvised battle starring Jonte' Moaning, Mela Murder, Kaner Flex, Richard Kennedy, Malik Winslow and Kaori Kstar Narita.
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For black artists like niv Acosta (Read: Sci-Fi and Twerking Explore the Black Body in This Performance Art Series), Derrick Adams (Read: Britain's First Black Circus Gets a Live Radio Art Tribute), Kia Labeija (Read: Kia Labeija Tracks the Influence of HIV/AIDS on Contemporary Art), and Rashaad Newsome (Read: [Exclusive] Hip-Hop, Voguing, and Heraldry Meet in Rashaad Newsome's New Video), performance is a way to further explore sexuality, identity, and history in real time.
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