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ballroom. history. not an archivist just posting to preserve/reference/publicize (mostly performance, face, runway, fashion clips as well as interviews/history) Joined October 2019

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Cats: The Jellicle Ball @jellicleballnyc

2 months ago

Give it up for the movers, the shakers, the Best Choreography Tony nominees: Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons!!!! 💋💋

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2 months ago

The Icon Arturo Miyake Mugler is now a Tony nominated choreographer as a result of his work with CATS: The Jellicle Ball He is joined by the Legendary Omari Oricci

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4 months ago

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“My mother’s name was Gigi LaBeija. My father’s name was Butch-Stephanie LaBeija. And I, therefore, became Junior LaBeija.” Junior LaBeija discusses his start in the ballroom seen and his parents within the House of LaBeija. From The New Yorker

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LAW ROACH @LUXURYLAW

4 months ago

So excited to make my Broadway debut as a producer on ⁦@jellicleballnyc⁩ !! Performances start tomorrow. Get your tickets now 💛✨

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TENz Magazine @TenzMagazine

4 months ago

“Noguing” calls out the untrained and uninitiated, those putting a mockery of vogue performance on public display without the technique, lineage, or respect the art form demands.

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TENz Magazine @TenzMagazine

4 months ago

Contestants were shown “voguing” with minimal technical grounding, reducing a codified form to hair flips, a quick duckwalk, or the often misused death drop, properly called a dip. Judges and audiences applauded routines that, in a ballroom, would have been an instant chop.

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TENz Magazine @TenzMagazine

4 months ago

For years, the show deployed ballroom language as camp shorthand without educating viewers on its origins. Early seasons often framed ballroom vernacular as witty drag banter, detached from a living, thriving culture beyond Paris Is Burning or the annual Reading Challenge.

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TENz Magazine @TenzMagazine

4 months ago

For over a decade, tension has simmered between the ballroom community and RuPaul’s Drag Race. At the center of that friction are cultural appropriation, diluted terminology, and often poor voguing presented to mainstream audiences.

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2 years ago

Pepper LaBeija explaining the evolution of balls from the 60s through the 1980s in Diane Martel’s short documentary titled “House of Tres” for the series Alive From Off Center on PBS First aired July 19, 1990

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2 years ago

Old Way Performance RR Chanel and Hector Xtravaganza Present the 1993 Shadefest Ball Marc Ballroom in New York City Muhammad Ultra Omni

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a year ago

Pepper LaBeija explaining that before the house-ballroom scene, drag balls had social clubs like the Delightful Ladies, DuPrees and LaChanels. Then Crystal started the House of LaBeija For The Joan Rivers Show Aug 8 1991, on the eve of the national release of Paris Is Burning

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a year ago

Dorian Corey explaining how race became a somewhat defining factor in the drag ball scene. She references Phil Black who organized annual balls in Harlem beginning in the early 1940s through at least 1969. From The Joan Rivers Show Aug 8 1991

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a year ago

Pepper LaBeija discussing her friendship with Paris DuPree as well as walking balls in the 1960s She walked her first ball in 1967 and then won her first ball in 1968 — it was put on by Barbarella and was the first large grand prize trophy. From Paris Is Burning outtakes

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a year ago

Dorian Corey watching old footage of herself and Avis Pendavis competing at the old drag balls — years unspecified. Those balls were closer to pageants than balls of today. She describes her relationship with Avis as friendly enemies or rivals From Paris Is Burning outtakes

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a year ago

“As she was walking in the ballroom a man said to her ‘you are La Bella!’” Junior LaBeija telling an origin tale of the House of LaBeija. This was in 2013 at the Black Pride Awards in New York City.

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a year ago

“Queens started making their dresses for next year as soon as they got home that night.” Queens and historians discussing the Phil Black balls in Harlem of the 1950s and 1960s This footage is from P.S. Burn This Letter Please

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a year ago

“Many of the girls have been saying they don’t think I’ll mop as a blonde...it is a shocking change.” Daphne (Michael Alogna) walking a 1955 ball organized by Phil Black at the Rockland Palace in Harlem. This footage also appears in the documentary P.S. Burn This Later

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a year ago

Willi Ninja explains early mainstreaming timeline Says he was cast by Thierry Mugler to walk the fall 1989 show at an Xtravaganza ball; filmed Malcolm McLaren’s 1989 Deep in Vogue; did Madonna’s 1989 Don’t Bungle the Jungle benefit; Madonna did Vogue From 2004 panel at NYU

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a year ago

“He told me whatever I wanted to be he was behind me 100%. If this is what I wanted, be the best at it … and I was the best.” Pepper LaBeija discussing her father coming to a ball one night and expressing his acceptance the next day. From an early cut of Paris Is Burning

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Mikelle Street @MikelleStreet

5 months ago

“Natural carta! Face, cut for the gods!” “It’s face.” “There’s no surge and I’m 51.” “It’s not runway; it’s face!” “Yes, so why are you here?” “It’s face!” “Yes! It’s face; why are you here?!” “It’s face.”