Inside, Julie Wilson runs a business here in the family home, known by those who need to know as Encore Ballroom Couture. It’s considered the ballroom dance ... The abiding aesthetic is more ...

Other reasons include aesthetic purposes, such as contouring to enhance tone while accentuating the movement of the body. “Ballroom dancing is a very expensive sport,” said Sabrina.

ballroom dance and Black activism. “As a Black Queer L.A. native I’ve always sought for spaces that Black Queer creative freedom could exist without being reduced to some sort of spectacle or ...

Once an underground niche in the US, ballroom culture has found its way to Europe and Asia in the past two decades through voguing – a signature dance form of the ballroom scene and which blends ...

He also readily admits to emulating its flashy aesthetic, which is reflective of ballroom dance culture, if not always a part of it he embraced. “I grew up covered in rhinestones,” he said ...

an LGBT movement born in Harlem, New York in the 1920s and which flooded nightclubs in the 1970s. In Paris, now one of the world's "voguing" capitals, the ballroom scene boasts some thirty dance ...

There are four main styles of competitive ballroom dancing ... I’m not fond of that aesthetic.” Donie said she prefers to put the technical dance moves first and the “persona” second ...

There are traditional, raked seats, but also ones near the stage, at cafe tables that are incorporated into big dance numbers. “We wanted to play with the setting of ballroom to create something ...