Originating in 1970’s New York Harlem, Voguing is a dance style rooted in the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community. Marginalized by society‘s white, heterosexual majority, the community came together at so-called Balls. There, they danced together, performed, imitated the glamourous life shown in fashion magazines, celebrated themselves and founded Houses as surrogate families. Ballroom (the generic term for this culture) is mainly a safe space, opening up a room to express oneself and exchange creatively.
Voguing is a highly expressive, body-accentuating dance, focussing on the dancer being seen, as well as claiming and defending a space on the dance floor as representation of the heteronormative society.
Female Figure Performance is a category performed during a ball. It is aiming at female readable persons: Femqueens (trans-women), cis-women and dragqueens. The category Female Figure Performance wants to stage female readable bodily attributes and characteristics self-determined and musically. The workshop invites all bodies and gender identities interested in experimenting with femininity and working on Voguing Feestyle techniques and musicality. High Heels are – although desired – not obligatory.
