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a dance war where Black and Latino queer kids weaponized fashion magazine poses into pure devastation
means A highly stylized dance built from sharp, angular poses, fluid arm movements, and dramatic floor work, originating in Black and Latino queer ballroom culture.
from The name comes straight from Vogue, the fashion magazine — dancers struck the rigid, glamorous model poses found in its pages and turned them into movement. The form rose out of the Harlem ballroom scene, where competing 'houses' battled on the floor, and it broke into the mainstream when Madonna's 1990 hit 'Vogue' borrowed both the name and the moves.
- origin
- Born in 1980s Harlem ballroom scene
- named after
- Vogue magazine's rigid model poses
- competitive roots
- Replaced fistfights with stylized dance battles
- five elements
- Hands, catwalk, duckwalk, spins, dips
- the dip
- That dramatic backfall is wrongly called a death drop
ball culture new york — underground lgbtq+ dance scene in 1980s harlem where voguing originated, documented in the 1990 film 'paris is burning'
madonna vogue 1990 — madonna's chart-topping single and music video that brought voguing to mainstream audiences worldwide