vogueing
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SHOUT Queer Arts and Culture want to teach you Voguing and Waacking
The Queerguru Team are not always up for trying new things, but when the invite from SHOUT Queer Arts and Culture arrived in our intray we were very intrigued. Based in Birmingham, UK they are creating the foundations for having a ballroom community, and the difference is that this project is the first step to…
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Vogueing With Beethoven
To celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Birthday music video and commercials director Emilie Norenberg was approached by one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious music ensembles, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, to create a visual piece that introduces Beethoven’s music to a new generation of listeners. Shot on 16mm film on the suburban streets of Oslo, high culture meets subculture…
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Gimme One : Andrew Hebden reviews a BFI London World Premiere
Queerguru won’t be camped out at London’s Leicester Square for the British Film Festival this year. Social distancing has forced most of the content online. We’re gutted. On lockdown since March it’s another grim nail in the coffin of the UK art scene. Or so we thought. However this little surprise from director Montague…
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Legendary : a new vogueing competition from HBO
Vogueing lives on, well at least on TV. HBO is launching LEGENDARY a brand new series which will see competitors from eight different ballroom houses vying for legendary status. Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of…
