The reason I like "Pose" is not because its director is Ryan Murphy, who has directed popular American dramas such as "American Horror Story", "The Enemy" and "Glee". When I opened the first episode of this show, the first One shot really surprised me
Isn't this familiar movement Voguing?
Yes, the protagonist of this American drama is this special group of people who dance Vogue - LGBTQ (L-Lesbians, G-Gays, B-Bisexuals, T-Transgender, Q-Queer). identity disorder) .
When watching this drama for the first time, the audience will be shocked by the character design of Drama in it, and the form of the dance party in the play will express incomprehension, but in fact , the settings in the play are all adapted from real history. We can also clearly understand
What is the culture behind Voguing?
Voguing originated in the black area of New York, USA, where there is a special group of people who are born different and even hated by their family and friends. They are always taught to be ashamed of their natural characteristics. One of the protagonists in the play, Damon, a seemingly ordinary black boy, was kicked out because his parents in a traditional Catholic family found out that he was gay, and he secretly took ballet classes that they thought girls would only learn. door.
Even though Damon did nothing wrong, in the eyes of his parents, he was a sinner who could not be forgiven by God.
In "POSE", almost all people have the same experience, they are not accepted by their families and homeless, they are not recognized by society, so no one can hear their inner voice.
However, this group of people did not give in, they united to create their own dance party to establish their own social organization, and the dance we are now familiar with is the origin of Voguing.
Many people can't help but ask questions when watching the show:
What is the point of this exaggerated cosplay show?
In fact, the dance party in the play does have a historical prototype, and it was already taking shape as early as 1920. At that time, this kind of dance was called Drag Ball , and it was mainly a dance party where boys (physically male) dressed up in women's clothing, but what was interesting was that the aesthetics of Drag Ball were mainly white, and most of the participants were For whites, until 1967 there was a Drag Ball for blacks and Latinos.
At that time, the main activity of Drag Ball was the costume catwalk competition. In addition to fashion appearances, the contestants would also become senior CEOs, soldiers, students, etc., because it was difficult for LGBTQ to become a higher social position in the social environment at that time , and Ball Give them such a stage to become their dream roles .
In the beginning, the performance of the dance party was mainly on the catwalk, but because of the competition and competition at the dance party, there was also a culture similar to diss, but how could these elegant dancers (Xi) girls (Jing) be willing to use rude words or Fight to solve the problem, as the saying goes
Taking advantage of dance competition to avoid verbal or even physical attacks is also the original intention of Voguing (as expected, hip-hop culture is a family)
I use my hands (during the dance) to shape a powder or a makeup box, and to the music pretend to slap my face with blush or put on eyeshadow, usually I'll turn the powder toward each other, meaning like my hand It's a mirror to show them how ugly they are, and then I'll start imitating their faces, because they need a good amount of makeup to save them. —Willi Ninja, "Paris Is Burning"
Vogue got its name because it requires a lot of poses in the process of prom catwalks, especially when learning the poses in Vogue magazines.
Vogue has a history of nearly 60 years. In fact, the Voguing we see today has changed a lot from what we first saw.
At first, he made various poses with the popular Funk music at the time.
Later, with the emergence of House music, Voguing appeared more complex hand movements to interpret this higher song
Later, Voguing's hand movements also interacted with other dance styles of the same period. At that time, many ballet and jazz dancers also began to join the ballroom, and the difficult body extension of Keban also began to be integrated into Vogue dance.
However, because of the special cultural origin of Voguing, it was not known and accepted by mainstream groups at first, until the 1980s (also the background in "POSE") Voguing was only an underground culture in Harlem, New York.
In 1990, the popular superstar Modanna discovered this dance of "posing one by one with the freeze frame" in the ballroom, and was deeply inspired, so she found the legendary Voguer, Jose Xtravaganza and others, and made it which is still regarded as a classic to this day. single "Vogue"
But even the diva Modanna faced strong opposition from some conservative groups when she released the song at the time. However, after its release, this song not only won the music charts of Australia, Belgium, Finland, Canada, Norway, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, including the US Billboard charts, but also won the music charts in 11 regions. It won the "International Single of the Year" award from the Canadian Juno Awards, and was named one of the "Top 100 Dance Songs" by "Side Edge" magazine in 2006 , ranking third.
It is even more meaningful because the success of this single also pushed Vogue culture to unprecedented popularity, and many people fell in love with this dance move and started the "Vogue flipping frenzy".
The 9-year-old dance boy who contracted my emoji in those years, the original video is the song "Vogue".
More and more mainstream groups also began to pay attention to the LGBTQ community because of Voguing in the MV, and began to try to understand them.
Twenty years later, in order to pay tribute to Modanna, Jolin Tsai also released a single "Beauty Plan" in 2010 and danced Vogue in the MV. This should be regarded as the earliest source of Chinese public awareness of Voguing.
It is precisely because of the popularization of Vogue culture by popular music that Voguing has become a unique and charming dance in the hip-hop that we love, because Voguing's concept of Pose, the logic of hand movements, etc. have been used for many dancers. Therefore, many straight men and women have joined the Voguing family.
Of course, there are still many voices who think that those Voguers who like to wear fancy clothes are "perverts", and for such people I just want to respond with the words of the protagonist Blanca in "POSE"
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