SPOTLIGHT ON THE ICON KRISTINA RICHARDS

NAME- KRISTINA

YEARS ACTIVE- LATE 80'S TO PRESENT

HOUSE AFFILIATIONS- RICHARDS, WESTWOOD, BLAHNIK, REVLON, TSUNAMI

BALLROOM RIVALRIES- ALYSSA, SINIA, ASHLEY, DAEJA (IN CURRENT YEARS)

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS- TO MANY TO NAME BUT HERE ARE A FEW. EATING MOLDAVIA, 1995 NYC AWARDS BALL BATTLING SINIA, SLAYING THE CLUBHOUSE IN 1996, THE BEGINNING OF HER COMEBACK, SLAYING THE NYC AWARDS BALL 1997, EATING ASHLEY AND DEE DEE, LEGENDS BALL 1997 BATTLING ALYSSA, 2003 CATFIGHT WITH NIAMBI AT ESCOS, 2004 EBONY BALL, 2005 BATTLE WITH DAEJA AT CROWBAR, 2006 BATTLING YOLANDA IN CHICAGO, 2007 ICON BALL, 2008 CATFIGHT WITH SINIA AT ESCOS, 2009 THE INFAMOUS NOTORIOUS $5,000 SCANDAL WITH GINGER MIZRAHI AT JASMINE MIZRAHI COLLECTIONS BALL, 2010 ICON BALL GP WINNER, PRODIGY NOSTALGIA GP WINNER, 2011 PAYING HER OWN HOUSE BALL, AND IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH LUNA KHAN.

MOST KNOWN FOR- HER FLASH DANCE, MARTIAL ARTS TYPE VOGUE, SHE HAD HER OWN UNIQUE STYLE, WAS KNOWN FOR HER GEOMETRIC, KICKS AND SPINS. LATER YEARS PERFECTED HER FLOOR PERFORMANCE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH GIRLS OF TODAY, HER GLIDING CATWALK.

CATEGORIES WALKED- FQ PERFORMANCE, FQ BODY

HISTORY- WHERE DO YOU START WITH HOW TO DESCRIBE THE ICON KRISTINA? ICON, LEGEND, UNIQUE, ANOTHER PRIVATE DANCER. KRISTINA WAS THE ONE THAT ALWAYS HAD HER OWN STYLE OF VOGUE. KRISTINA MIXED ELEMENTS OF FLASH DANCE AND BALLET WITH MARTIAL ARTS. KRISTINAS VOGUE IS SIMILAR TO THE CHARACTERS FROM MORTAL KOMBAT, BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT BUT IS DEADLY AND LETHAL. KRISTINA ALWAYS HAD THAT EDGE OVER HER OPPONENTS BECAUSE OF THE GIFT THAT HER PERFORMANCE GAVE. HER EARLY YEARS UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF ONE OF THE ORIGINALS LEAH RICHARDS KRISTINA TOOK OFF. KRISTINA BATTLED MANY OF THE VOGUE PHENOMENONS OF BACK THEN AND EVEN ATE MOLDAVIA WHO WAS A VOGUE SENSATION. IN THE EARLY 90'S THOUGH KRISTINA INSTANTLY GOT GROUPED WITH ALYSSA, SINIA, AND ASHLEY BECAUSE THESE FOUR EACH HAD THEIR OWN IMPACTFUL PERFORMANCES. KRISTINA HAS HAD SEVERAL HOT BATTLES WITH ASHLEY WITH KRISTINA TAKING MOST OF THE WINS. ONE NOTORIOUS TIME AT THE 1995 INFINITY BALL ASHLEY DID THE "DROP" THE MAKAELLA FOR THE FIRST TIME AND AT THE END IN KRISTINAS FACE TOLD HER " NEVER" AND ATE PRETZELS. HER AND SINIA MET AT THE NY AWARDS BALL 1995 FOR ONE OF THEIR NOTORIOUS BATTLES. KRISTINA VOGUING WITH PROPS CAME OUT AND DESTROYED FOR HER TENS BUT THEN SINIA IN A CLOUD OF FOG AND SMOKE WITH THE MANE OF A LIONESS CAME AND GOT KRISTINA. KRISTINA WAS ALREADY KNOWN TO BE AN OPPONENT TO BE HONORED TO WIN OVER. KRISTINASS VOGUE CONSISTED OF POSES AND THIS CATWALK THAT APPEARED THAT SHE WAS GLIDING ON THE FLOOR. KRISTINA WOULD DO THESE HIGH KICKS AND HOLD HER LONG BONE SNATCH AND WOULD DO THESE SPINS BUT INSTEAD OF LANDING INTO DIPS IT'LL BE IN A STERN POSE. KRISTINA AFTER A BRIEF HIATUS CAME BACK ROARING AT THE END OF 1996 COMING TO THE INFAMOUS AND CAUSING A MASSACRE, KRISTINA CAME AND SLAYED EVERYONE ONE BY ONE TO DIN DA DA. SHE VOGUED SO DOWN PEOPLE EVEN OFFERED MONEY TO SINIA TO VOGUE AND SINIA TURNED IT DOWN KNOWING IT WAS HER NIGHT. AT THE 1997 AWARDS BALL NYC KRISTINA CAME AND SLAYED ASHLEY WHILE ASHLEY WAS DRAMATIC KRISTINA WAS HER POLAR OPPOSITE MAKING SHLEY LOOK LIKE SHE WAS CRAZY. KRISTINA BATTLED A YOUNG YOLANDA AT THAT TIME AND LOST TO HER AT THE LATEX BALL 1997. ALYSSA AND KRISTINA MET TWICE THAT SUMMER ONCE AT THE CLUBHOUSE AND THE CLASSIC LEGENDS BALL 1997. ALYSSA AND KRISTINA MET TWICE THAT SUMMER ONCE AT THE CLUBHOUSE AND THE CLASSIC LEGENDS BALL 1997. KRISTINA IN ALL GOLD ALYSSA IN ALL WHITE THEY VOGUED FQ PERFORMANCE THE OLD WAY SLOW AND SEXY TO LOVE BREAK BY SALSOUL ORCHESTRA WITH ALYSSA TAKING A WIN AGAIN. KRISTINA WAS ALSO WALKING FQ MODELS BODY AND TOOK GP AT REVLON BALL 1997. KRISTINA GOT YOLANDA BACK AT THE CLUBHOUSE ONE NIGHT WHILE YOLANDA DID HER STUNTS KRISTINA VOGUED CLASSIC WITH A NEW EDGE. AT THE 1999 LATEX BALL IT APPEARED THAT HER AND SINIA WAS GOING TO MEET ON THE FLOOR AGAIN BUT KRISTINA GOT HURT IN THE START OF HER BATTLE AND WALKED OFF. KRISTINA TOOK A FEW YEARS OFF AND CAME BACK NO LONGER A WESTWOOD BUT AS A BLAHNIK. IN 2003 AT JACKS BATTLE BALL KRISTINA AND NIAMBI MET ON THE FLOOR INSTANTLY FOR LSS THEIR WAS A FRICTION WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR THE BATTLE KRISTINA CRAWLING LIKE A SNAKE CAME OUT FOR NIAMBI. AND THEY BOTH STARTED BATTLING INSTANTLY AS IF THEIR WAS A PRIMAL INSTINCT IN THEM TO ATTACK EACH OTHER. THE BATTLE WAS STOPPED AFTER KRISTINA SNATCHED NIAMBI'S HAIR. SHORTLY AFTER THAT BALL KRISTINA WALKED A BALL AT THE WAREHOUSE AND LOST TO NOW NEW LEGEND KELLY GARCON TO EVERY ONES GAGNATION. END OF 2003 KRISTINA BECAME A REVLON WHERE SHE WOULD COME AND CUT UP AT THE HARLEM CLUBHOUSE. 2004 EBONY BALL IN ALL WHITE AND FAITH EVANS RED HAIR KRISTINA CAME AND DESTROYED THE GIRLS. SHE BATTLED DAEJA FIRST DECLARING THAT SHE WAS MORE CUNT THEN HER THEN SHE BATTLED AAMINA. KRISTINA TOOK HOME GRAND PRIZE. AT THE 2004 POCC BALL KRISTINA WALKED BUT LOST TO MEEKA AND IN 2005 AT CROBAR HER AND DAEJA MET AGAIN KRISTINA AND HER GOT INTO A HEATED BATTLE WITH KRISTINA DOING THIS OVAH FLOOR PERFORMANCE BUT APPEARING LIKE SHE WAS DOING BACKSTROKES. KRISTINA GOT HER AGAIN. 2006 HER AND YOLANDA MET AGAIN ON THE FLOOR IN CHICAGO WITH KRISTINA WINNING OVER AGAIN BUT AT ICON BALL 2007 YOLAND HAD GOT HER BACK ( FORGOT TO MENTION THAT KRISTINA WAS MOTHER TSUNAMI NOW). IN 2008 AT THE LIBERTY AWARDS BALL IN ESCOS SHE AND SINIA MET AGAIN ON THE FLOOR BUT THE WHOLE CROWD SURROUNDED THEM CLOSING THEM IN ADDING TO THEIR NATURAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THEM. THINGS GOT TO HEATED AMONG THEM AND THEY STOPPED THE BATTLE. AT THE 2009 CAPITAL AWARDS BALL JASMINE PUT UP THE FIRST $5000 FOR FF PERFORMANCE BUT THEY NEVER GAVE THE MONEY OUT THAT NIGHT. KRISTINA HAD BROUGHT A PRODUCTION LIKE A FAIRY THAT NIGHT. JASMINE SAID SHE WOULD HAVE THE CATEGORY AGAIN THAT COLUMBUS WEEKEND THAT YEAR. ALL THE GIRLS CAME TO NYC THAT NIGHT TO WITNESS THE EVENT. KRISTINA AND DAEJA WAS INSTANTLY PAIRED THAT NIGHT BEING THEY WERE THE EXPERIENCED AND MOST TENURED VOGUERS. KRISTINA WON THAT BATTLE AND SUCCESSFULLY KNOCKED DOWN A FEW OTHERS. KRISTINA AND GINGER IN THE NEAR BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE HEAD BUTTED KRISTINA SHORTLY AFTER THEY STARTED FIGHTING AND THEY GAVE THE MONEY TO GINGER INSTEAD OF HER BEING DISQUALIFIED. KRISTINA FEELING OUTRAGED AND ABANDONED BY THE SCENE THAT SHE DEDICATED OVER 20 YEARS TOO SAID SHE WOULD NOT PARTICIPATE AGAIN. JANUARY 200 BREAKING THAT VOW AT THE ICON BALL 2010 KRISTINA WAS THERE SPECTATING SAYING THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING TO VOGUE THAT NIGHT BUT ONCE ASHLEY OPENED BACK THE CATEGORY TO LET SEXY LEXY VOGUE KRISTINA CAME IN STORMING. IRONICALLY KRISTINA WON THAT NIGHT BATTLING AAMINA AND THE LAST BATTLE WAS HER AND NEW LEGEND LEIOMY KRISTINA GAVE A CLASSIC PERFORMANCE AND WON THAT $500 THAT NIGHT. KRISTINA WOULD MEET LEIOMY AGAIN THAT SUMMER AT THE HOUSE OF PRODIGY NOSTALGIA MINIBALL DELUXE. KRISTINA IN ALL YELLOW DELIVERD ANOTHER CLASSIC PERFORMANCE AND TOOK HOME ANOTHER $500. KRISTINA HAS SHOWN THROUGH THE YEARD THAT SHE WILL STILL GIVE IT HER ALL WIN OR LOSE AND WILL VOGUE WITH THE NEWER GENERATIONS. THIS YEAR 2011 THE HOUSE OF TSUNAMI HAD THEIR FIRST HOUSE BALL AND KRISTINA DID NOT SHOW UP. KRISTINA SAID SHE LEFT THE HOUSE. AS WE ALL KNOW KRISTINA HAS ENOUGH STATUS AND CLOUT TO STAND ALONE FOR ALL THE YEARS TO COME.

NOTABLE MENTIONS- FOR A LOOK INTO KRISTINAS LIFE GO ON YOUTUBE ON LUNA KHANS VIDEO BLOG AND LOOK AT THE IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS. THERE SHE SAYS DAEJA, MEEKA AND LEIOMY AR HER FAVORITES.