SPOTLIGHT ON ALYSSA LAPERLA

NAME- ALYSSA

HOUSE AFFILIATIONS- ST. CLAIRE, PENDAVIS, REVLON, PRESTIGE, CARTIER, ASHANTI, EBONY, INFINITY, JOURDAN, LAPERLA, ETC.

BALLROOM MEMORABLE MOMENTS- TO MANY TO NAME BUT HERES A FEW. 1997 LEGENDS BALL SLOW AND SEX PERFORMANCE, 1998 DIAMONTE BALL STORMING THE WHOLE BALL, 1998 CLUBHOUSE BALL CATFIGHTING WITH SINIA, 1996 JERSEY FUNCTION OCTAVIA DEEMING HER LEGENDARY, 2002 REVLON BALL FQ SEX SIREN. IN DC IN LATER YEARS DECLARING HOW SHE CAN MAKE $500 IN 15 MINUTES.

BALLROOM RIVALS- THE MOST INTENSE AND MOST NOTORIOUS IS HER RIVALRY WITH SINIA THAT STEMMED FROM AN INCIDENT ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO.

CATEGORIES WALKED- FQ VOGUE, FQ FACE, FQ FACE WITH PERFORMANCE, FQ SEX SIREN, FQ RUNWAY, FQ BODY, BEST DRESSED, FQ PERFECT 10.

ALYSSA, ALYSSA, ALYSSA NO MATTER WHAT HOUSE SHE HAS BEEN IN SHE IS ONE OF THE FEW THAT DOES NO NEED TO STAND WITH A HOUSE SHE CAN DEFINITELY STAND ALONE. ALYSSA IS THE TRUE DEFINITION OF FQ BALLROOM EXCELLENCE. MOST OF WHAT SHE IS NOTORIOUS  AND LIVED FOR IS HER VOGUE. SHE IS THE EPITOME OF FQ VOGUE. SHE IS ONE OF THE RARE ONES THAT HAS A CLASSIC, TIMELESS PERFORMANCE. SHE HAS THE ULTIMATE ELEMENTS OF PERFORMANCE, A SICKENING CATWALK AND DUCKWALK. SHE HAS SPINS AND TRUE LAYOUTS. HANDS LIKE LIQUID, STRETCH WHICH SHE USES TO HER ADVANTAGE TO DO SPLITS AND OTHER MOVES AND PURE PUSSY FEMININITY. THE ONE ELEMENT OF HER PERFORMANCE THAT SHE HAS MASTERED IS SHADE!!! ALYSSA USES SHADE AS AN ART FORM, SHE WILL VOGUE WITH HER OPPONENT SO UNBOTHERED AND NONCHALANT ALMOST LIKE THEY DO NOT EXIST. IF YOU HAD A CAMERA AND TOOK PICTURES OF HER WHILE SHE WAS PERFORMING YOU WOULD HAVE A SERIES OF POSES AND FRAMES THAT WOULD MAYBE SEE IN A MAGAZINE. ALYSSA'S EARLY DAYS OF WALKING IN THE BALLROOM SCENE WAS HER BATTLING SOME OF THE GREATS AND ORIGINATORS OF FQ PERFORMANCE. LATISHA, MELISSA, LEAH, MOLDAVIA, AND MORE! FOR YEARS SHE WOULD HONE HER PERFORMANCE AND THE ATTITUDE THAT WENT ALONG WITH IT. IN THE EARLY YEARS SHE WOULD BECOME VERY KNOWN FOR RUNWAY! ALYSSA HAS A WALK THAT COULD STOP TRAFFIC AND WHEN SHE SETS FOOT ON THE RUNWAY YOU KNOW THAT SHE WOULD MEAN BUSINESS! WHEN THE NEWER GENERATIONS CAME OUT IN THE EARLY 90'S THAT IS WHEN THINGS REALLY BECAME HOT! ALYSSA WAS A ST. CLAIRE AND WAS ONE OF THE HOTTEST GIRLS AT THAT TIME. THIS WHERE ALOT OF RIVALRIES STARTED FORMING. WHEN THE MIZRAHI'S AND THE ST. CLAIRES WAS GOING TO MERGE HOUSES ALYSSA HAD TOOK A YOUNG SINIA UNDER THE WING TO HELP MOLD HER ESPECIALLY BEING THAT SINIA LOOKED UP TO HER. THE FIRST NIGHT THAT SINIA WAS GOING TO WALK ANOTHER CATEGORY ( FQ PERFECT 10 WITH A TOUCH OF RUNWAY) ALYSSA HAD SINIA UNDER HER TUTELAGE. SINIA HITS THE RUNWAY AND GETS HER LIFE BUT UNBENOWNST TO HER ALYSSA WAS ON THE BACK OF THE RUNWAY AND HAD LIFTED HER WHOLE DRESS PULLED IT TO HER HIPLINE AND STARTED TO PUMP DOWN THE RUNWAY WITH A NASTY WALK. ALYSSA ATE HER UP COMING DOWN THE RUNWAY. THIS INCIDENT STARTED A CONTENTION BETWEEN HER AND SCORNED SINIA TOWARDS ALYSSA. LATER ON THAT NIGHT THEY HAD PERFORMANCE AND LIKE A HELL CAT IN AN ALLEY SINIA WAS UNLEASHED ON ALYSSA AND WON OVER HER. AFTER THAT THEIR RIVALRY WAS ETCHED IN BALLROOM HISTORY NEVER TO CHANGE. ALYSSA WOULD WALK FQ FACE ALSO AND WOULD GET HER LIFE SHE WAS KNOWN FOR TRYING DIFFERENT LOOKS AND EFFECTS. WHETHER SHORT AND BLONDE OR LONG SHE WOULD BRING IT FOR THE CATEGORY. IN 1996 AT A JERSEY FUNCTION ALYSSA WAS DEEMED LEGENDARY BY THE ICON HERSELF OCTAVIA ONE NIGHT WHEN SHE WAS SITTING UNTOLD. WHEN SEX SIREN BECAME A KNOWN CATEGORY SHE WOULD ALSO PARTAKE IN THAT BATTLING DANIELLE AND OTHERS. IN 1997 WHEN SHE WAS AN EBONY SHE WOULD WALK THE 1997 LEGENDS BALL THE CATEGORY WAS FQ OLD WAY SLOW AND SEXY. ALYSSA IN A LITTLE WHITE SLIP DRESS AND DELIVERED A BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE THAT NIGHT SH AND KRISTINA MET ON THE FLOOR AND THEY VOGUED TO SALSOULS ORCHESTRA LOVE BREAK. ALYSSA DELIVERED A SERIES OF POSES AND LAYOUTS THAT SNATCHED GRAND PRIZE. SHE ALSO BATTLED KRISTINA AGAIN THAT MONTH AT THE CLUBHOUSE AND WON OVER HER AGAIN. ALYSSA ALSO WON FQ FACE AT THE LEGENDS BALL OVER MONICA ALLURE. ALYSSA ALSO WALKED TEAM FACE WITH JAY BLAHNIK AND BATTLED THAT YOUNG YOLANDA THAT YEAR AND SHE AND VANESSA MIZRAHI BATTLED AND BOTH CAME TO THE REVLON BALL 1997 LOOKING LIKE MARILYN MONROE IN ALL WHITE AND BLONDE ROLLER SETS. THE FOLLOWING YEAR WHEN SHE WAS AN INFINITY WAS ONE OF BALLROOM MEMORABLE FQ PERFORMANCE MOMENTS. AT THE 1998 DIAMONTE MOMENTS. AT THE 1998 DIAMONTE BALL I PUT UP A $100 ( A LOT OF MONEY AT THAT TIME LOL) ASHLEY CAME OUT AT FIRST THEN NIAMBI THEN ASHLEY CAME BACK OUT TO STORM NIAMBI. ERIC KINDLY ASKED ASHLEY TO STAND TO THE SIDE SO NIAMBI COULD GET TENS. ASHLEY WALKS OFF NIAMBI CONTINUES TO VOGUE NEXT THING ALYSSA IS ON THE BACK OF THE RUNWAY STORMING HER THEN SINIA COMES OUT AND STORMS ALYSSA AND THEN PANDEMONIUM BREAKS OUT IN THE WHOLE BALLROOM. PHILLY WAS AT A STANDSTILL THAT NIGHT. WHEN ERIC WAS ABLE TO GAIN CONTROL THEY WENT STRAIGHT INTO IT. SINIA VS ALYSSA, ALYSSA WAS IN A BURGUNDY DRESS AND A KNEE BOOT AND SINIA WAS IN A LITTLE TINY SKIRT AND BOOT TO THE KNEE. THE SHADE WAS THICK FROM THE BEGINNING ALYSSA'S FIRST DIP SHE HAD HER WHOLE LEGS OPEN IN A NASTY DIP FANNING HER PUSSY. THAT BATTLE WAS NOT JUST PERFORMANCE THEY SOLD BODIES AND FACE, SHADE, AND EVEN DID RUNWAY. THEY HAVE A RIVALRY THAT IS ONLY TRULY UNDERSTOOD BY THEM. ALYSSA SNATCHED THAT BATTLE AND ALSO BATTLED ALEXIS (SEXY LEXY). THE LAST BATTLE WAS BETWEEN HER AND NIAMBI WITH ALYSSA TAKING HOME GRAND PRIZE. SHE AND NICOLE ALSO HAD WALKED TEAM FACE THAT NIGHT. ALYSSA AND SINIA MET AGAIN IN 1999 AT A CLUBHOUSE MINI BALL ( THE BALLROOM MINI BALL MECCA OF THAT TIME) ALYSSA STORMED SINIA BUT SINIA THAT NIGHT WAS HAVING NONE OF THAT AND IN THAT SMALL SPACE THEY HAD A NASTY CATFIGHT WHICH RESULTED IN ALYSSA WALKING OFF. ANOTHER MOMENT WAS THE 1996 MUGLER BALL AT THE MARC BALLROOM BQ'S VS FQ'S WHO IS THE CUNTIEST WAS THE CATEGORY. ALYSSA FIRST BATTLES AVIANCE AND WINS OVER HIM THEN THE LAST AND KNOWN BATTLE WAS ALYSSA AND ARMANI MILAN ( THEN SUPREME) WHEN ALYSSA WENT TO HUG HIM AND HE SHADED HER WHICH WAS THE ULTIMATE SLIGHT TO ALYSSA. ALYSSA TOOK IT IN AND UNLEASHED A SHADY VOGUE ONSLAUGHT ON ARMANI WON THE BATTLE AND THEN GAVE THE TROPHY TO HIM SIGNIFYING THAT IT WAS NOTHING TO HER. WELL BACK NOW TO 200 ALYSSA WENT TO THE HOUSE OF JOURDAN AS MOTHER AND STAYED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME SHE WALKED RUNWAY AS A HOUSE AND OTHER CATEGORIES WITH THEM AND SLAYED FQ FACE AT THE EBONY BALL THAT YEAR. IN 2002 AT THE MILAN BALL IN ATLANTA ONJANAE CHOPPED ALYSSA FOR FACE AND WITH A VENGEANCE ALYSSA CAME BACK FOR PERFORMANCE AGAIN IN A WHITE TUBE DRESS AND SHE AND SINIA MET AGAIN THIS TIME THIS BATTLE COULD OF WENT EITHER WAY BUT ALYSSA PREVAILED. HER AND ALLOURA BATTLED THAT NIGHT AND ALLOURA WAS ACTUALLY PUNISHING HER. ALYSSA THOUGH NEVER AN EASY OPPONENT WENT  INTO A NASTY CATWALK AND DIP AND SEALED THE BATTLE. ALYSSA WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE OF ST. CLAIRE AND LIT THE REVLON BALL 2002 ON FIRE FORFQ SEX SIREN. SHE AND SEXY LEXY WAS ON FIRE FOR FQ SEX SIREN. SHE AND SEXY LEXY WAS THE LAST BATTLE AND FOR THE BATTLE AND PEALED OFF HER DRESS TO A NASTY BRA AND PANTY SET AND TOOK OFF ON HER AND WENT AND LAID ON THE JUDGES TABLE WITH HER LEGS SPREAD OPEN. SHE SNATCHED GRAND PRIZE QUICK AND LEFT ALEXIS WITH A LOOK THAT CLEARLY DEFINED THAT SHE NEVER WANTED IT. YEARS FOLLOWING ALYSSA WOULD MAKE BRIEF APPEARANCES NY AWARDS BALL 2003 SHE WALKED FQ FACE. 2004 KHAN BALL SHE GRACED FQ PERFORMANCE FOR TENS VOGUED TO DIN DADA IN A SCANDALOUS CORSET AND GAVE THEM A TASTE. ALSO IN 2003 TINY LABEIJA BAZAAR AND HER HAD A BRIEF READ AND THEY GOTTEN INTO A SLIGHT BATTLE. YEARS LATER IN DC HER AND SHANNON KHAN WAS BATTLING FOR FACE WHEN ALYSSA PUSHED HER CLAIMING THAT SHE STEPPED ON HER DRESS. A SLIGHT CONFRONTATION ENSUED AND ALYSSA GOT ON THE MIC AND DECLARED THAT SHE COULD MAKE $500 IN 15 MINUTES AND THAT SHE IS AN ICON DARLING SHE DOESN'T NEED TO THROW SHADE! ALYSSA IS SOMEONE THAT WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN UNBOTHERED BUT GRACEFUL ATTITUDE!!!!

NOTABLE MENTIONS- ALYSSA HAS BEEN MOTHER OF MANY HOUSED BUT TIRES OF THEM EASILY SHE HAS BEEN THE MOTHER OF LAPERLA FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS THOUGH.

ALSO THIS ENTRY OF HISTORY IS SHORTENED SHE AND SINIA HAVE BATTLED MANY OTHER TIMES AT THE NILE IN PHILLY AND AT THE MAR BALLROOM.

BALLROOM THROWBACKS "THE MOVEMENT"

WHEN I CREATED BALLROOM THROWBACKS IT WAS FOR ONE MAIN REASON ALONE THAT I CAN THINK OF HISTORY!!! THE BALLROOM CULTURE IS JUST LIKE ANY UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT AND DESERVES TO BE CELEBRATED AND RESPECTED. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES BUT UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO THE REALITY OF IT BEING BASED ON "GAY PEOPLE" IT HAS BEEN FORCED TO BE ALMOST LIKE A SECRET SOCIETY. I WANT OUR BALLROOM SCENE TO BE TREATED SPECIAL AMONGST EACH OTHER AND OUR PEERS. THIS IS OUR HOLLYWOOD AND ITS FULL OF TALENT, GLAMOUR, COMPETITION, AND MORE! ALSO LIKE HOLLYWOOD WE HAVE HAD SEX, SCANDALS AND TRAGEDIES. I WANT TO ENFORCE AND ASK THAT WE ALL SHARE THE HISTORY THE TRUE BALLROOM TRADITIONS. I REALLY DO ME BEST TO PUT ALOT OF VIDEOS OUT THERE ON YOUTUBE AND HOT TOPICS ON THE FACEBOOK AND THE BLOG. I WANT TO CONTINUE GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT WITH POSTERS, PICTURES AND MORE. I WANT TO DO MY BEST TO BE A BALLROOM MEDIA MINI CONGLOMERATE. MY QUESTION AND THOUGHTS TO YOU IS WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME ADD TO THE BALLROOM THROWBACKS BRAND? ALL SUGGESTIONS AND INPUT IS HIGHLY REQUIRED.

I REMEMBER WHEN

SOMETIMES I LOOK BACK AT ALL THE THINGS THAT I HAVE WITNESSED IN THE BALLROOM SCENE, THE GOOD, BAD, AND THE SCANDALOUS. I WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I REMEMBER AND I WELCOME YOU TO SHARE YOUR MEMORIES AND TO COMMENT ON THE SHARED ONES THAT WE MAY HAVE!

1. I REMEMBER WHEN I PUT UP THE $100 DOLLARS AT THE 1998 DIAMANTE BALL FOR FEM QUEEN PERFORMANCE! THAT CREATED ON OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL AND HOTTEST PERFORMANCE EVER! ASHLEY STORMED NIAMBI THEN ERIE BAZAAR ASKED AHSLEY TO STEP OFF THE RUNWAY THEN ALYSSA CAME INTO THE BUILDING AND STORMED NIAMBI THEN SINIA STORMED ALYSSA THEN IT WAS PANDEMONIUM IN THE BUILDING! THEN AFTER THAT WAS HISTORY ....AND TO THINK A $100 WAS A LOT BACK THEN LOL.

2. I REMEMBER WHEN THE CLUBHOUSE ON 28TH STREET WAS THE HOT SPOT OF BALLROOM WHERE ALL KINDS OF HISTORY WAS MADE! I REMEMBER WHEN SINIA WAS BLACKBALLED FROM THE CLUBHOUSE FOR MACING THE WHOLE CLUB. WHY? BECAUSE SINIA HAD ATE EVERYONE UP THAT NIGHT AND JACK ASKED " WHO DARES DEFY SINIA AND YOLANDA STEPPED OUT WANTING TO BATTLE! BACK THEN THAT WAS UNHEARD OF HER AND YOLANDA ENSUED IN A NASTY CATFIGHT THAT LED INTO A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION AFTER YOLANDA PUT HER ASS INTO HER FACE. AFTER THAT THE REST IS HISTORY.

3. I REMEMBER WHEN THE SHADE WAS SO THICK WITH YOLANDA TOWARD SINIA AT YOLANDAS OWN HOUSE GRAND MARCH SINIA WAS GETTING TENS FOR PERFORMANCE AND YOLANDA STORMED HER!!! CLASSIC.

4. I REMEMBER WHEN MEEKA WAS A BQ AND AT THE SECOND STATE VS STATE BALL IN ATLANTA SHE WAS THE NY'S TEAM SECRET WEAPON AND THEY PUT HER AGAINST ARMANI MILAN FOR BQ VOGUE FEM. SEE NOW BACK THEN ARMANI RULED THE SOUTH AND WOULD EVEN COME TO NY. AND SLAY THE GIRLS. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE BACK THEN TO WIN OVER ARMANI AND MEEKA SLAYED HIM!!! TO ADD TO THE OPEN WOUND AT THE EBONY BALL THE FOLLOWING MONTH LABOR DAY WEEKEND MEEKA GOT HIM AGAIN. NEEDLESS TO SAY ARMANI'S VOGUING CAREER FIZZLED AFTER THAT AND THEY NEVER GOT A REMATCH BECAUSE MEEKA TRANSITIONED INTO A FEM QUEEN.

5. I REMEMBER WHEN THE LATE GREAT DANIELLE REVLON WAS ALIVE AND YOU WOULD SEE HER AT THE OCTAGON AND SHE WOULD DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY. I ALSO REMEMBER WHEN SHE CAME TO THE CLUBHOUSE ONE NIGHT AND CALLED SHANICE MILAN FOR FACE AND GOT ON THE TABLE AND EMOTED AWAY UNTIL SHE GOT EACH VOTE! DANIELLE WOULD SELL IT FOR THE GODS  EACH TIME SHE WALKED.

6. I REMEMBER WHEN THE LATE GREAT MYSTERY DIOR AND ASHLEY HAD SHADE!!! THEIR SHADE WAS INTENSE, MYSTERY FELT LIKE ASHLEY STOLE THE MAKAELLA FROM HIM AND THE GENERAL CONSENSUS WAS THAT ASHLEY CREATED IT. THIS ONE PARTICULAR BALL IN PHILLY SHE CHOPPED HIM FOR PERFORMANCE SO THE FOLLOWING MONTH LATER AT THE 1999 LATEX BALL HE MADE A PRODUCTION BASED OFF THE SONG "SCRUBS" BY TLC CALLING ASHLEY OUT! THEY CHOPPED HIM AND THEY ENDED UP BRINGING HIM BACK! THE REAL SHADE CHOP AND ALL HE ENDED UP WINNING THE WHOLE NIGHT.

7. I REMEMBER WHEN YOLANDA WAS A REAL YOUNG GIRL VOGUING WHEN SHE WOULD WIN SHE WOULD JUMP UP AND DOWN AND CHEER. WHEN SHE WOULD LOSE SHE WOULD CRY AND TAKE IT PERSONAL!

8. I REMEMBER WHEN ALLOURA WAS A BQ KNOWN AS CHRISTINA AND WOULD GET CHOPPED CONSTANTLY THEN HER TRANSITIONING  INTO A FQ AND BASICALLY CHANGING DRAMATIC FQ PERFORMANCE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM. ALLOURA TOOK EVERYTHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL. RIP!!!

9. I REMEMBER WHEN MINI GRANDS WAS $150 AND A TROPHY AND A GRAND PRIZE WAS $300 AND PEOPLE WAS HAPPY AND SATISFIED WITH THAT!

10. I REMEMBER WHEN REALNESS WITH A TWIST WAS A RARE CATEGORY AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IT WAS REAL AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO VOGUE SO IT LOOKED FUNNY AND THEY WAS ENTERTAINING TO HAVE OUT THERE.......

TO BE CONTINUED......

SPOTLIGHT ON KEVIN PRODIGY

LIL KEVIN PRODIGY

YEARS ACTIVE: 1995-PRESENT

HOUSE AFFILIATIONS: GIGLI, EBONY, PRODIGY

BALLROOM CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: BATTLES WITH EUGENE MILAN, 1997 POLO BALL IN DRAG, 2001 LEGENDS BALL MIRROR ON THE WALL PRODUCTION, 2001 SELVIN AND TAZ BALL EBONY WONDER WOMAN PRODUCTION. 2005 ICON BALL PRISONER OF VOGUE PRODUCTION.

RIVALRIES: WILL REVLON, RAY RAY MIZRAHI, ARMANI MILAN, MALACHI ALLURE ETC.

HISTORY: LIL KEVIN PRODIGY FIRST STEPPED ON THE SCENE IN 1995 AND HIS FIRST TIME WALKING HE BATTLED AND WON OVER THE TWO VOGUE FEM DIVAS OF THAT TIME EUGENE MILAN FROM NY AND WILL REVLON FROM PHILLY. PEOPLE SOMETIMES FORGET WHAT BUTCH QUEEN VOGUE FEM TRULY IS. THE CATEGORY WAS INVENTED TO EMULATE VOGUING LIKE A FEM QUEEN. SELLING BODY, IMAGINARY HAIR, POSES, CATWALK, SOFT DIPS AND LAYOUTS, FLOWING HANDS ETC. KEVIN EMBODIES THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE CATEGORY AND HAS KEPT HIS VOGUE TRUE TO THIS VERY DAY. HE IS ONE OF THE RARE ONES WHO HAS BEEN ABLE TO KEEP HIS VOGUE THE SAME BUT STILL KEEP UP WITH THE EVOLVING TIMES 16 YEARS AFTER HIS ORIGIN. HE HAS BATTLED ALL THE LEGENDS AND HAS WON OVER THEM FROM THE FIRST VOGUE FEM LEGEND FROM PHILADELPHIA THE LATE GREAT WILL REVLON TO TAIFA ICON, RAY RAY MIZRAHI, ALBERT REVLON ARMAN MILAN, CHARLES KHAN AND MORE. KEVIN HAS HAD THE RARE PRIVILEGE TO HAVE ALL THE PROMINENT FEM QUEENS TO BE HIS MOTHER AND HIS SISTERS. ANGEL REVLON, ASHLEY ICON, ALYSSA LAPERLA, SINIA EBONY, MEEKA AND MERCEDES PRODIGY AND THE LATE GREAT ALLOURA. ANGEL HAD TAUGHT HIM HOW TO DIP ORIGINALLY THEN HE TOOK ALYSSA'S CATWALK. ASHLEY ATTITUDE, SINIAS CUNT DRAMA AND MORE AND FUSED ALL OF THE ELEMENTS INTO HIS PERFORMANCE. KEVIN HAS HAD SEVERAL PRODUCTIONS IN HIS BALLROOM CAREER WHICH HAS ALSO STAMPED HIS CREDIBILITY IN THE SCENE. KEVIN WAS ALSO CROWNED THE SECOND VOGUE FEM LEGEND FROM PHILADELPHIA AND IS DEFINITELY ON HIS WAY TO ICON STATUS. ONE OF KEVINS SIGNATURE LOOKS WHEN HE VOGUED WAS A TIGHT JEAN A DUKE OR SKIRT AND DEFINITELY A HEEL TO ADD TO KEVIN'S CUNTINESS. HE HAS ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO BE SHADY OR RATHER HIS EXTERIOR. BUT ONES THAT KNOW HIM KNOW HE IS A "PUSSY CAT" LOL. FROM 2008-2010 KEVEN TOOK A HIATUS ON THE SCENE AND ON HIS RETURN NIGHT BATTLED AND WON OVER NEW LEGENDS MALACHI ALLURE AND DAYSHAWN EVISU. KEVIN HAS TRULY STOOD THE TEST OF TIME AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT THE CATEGORY CALLS FOR...VOGUE FEM!!!!

SPOTLIGHT ON YOLANDA JOURDAN

YOLANDA JOURDAN

YEARS ACTIVE: 1995-PRESENT

HOUSE AFFILIATIONS: JOURDAN, MUGLER, ZION, REVLON

RIVALRIES: NIAMBI AND MEEKA ARE HER MOST INFAMOUS AND SHE HAD AN INTENSITY WITH SINIA FROM 1996- 1998 UNTIL SHE BECAME HER MOTHER IN 1999, HER AND DEJA IN THE CLUBHOUSE DAYS.

BALLROOM HIGHLIGHTS: ASHLEY ST CLAIRE BALL 1996 HER AND SINIA BATTLING. 1997 HER AND SINIA CAT FIGHTING AT THE CLUBHOUSE IN 1997 RESULTING IN A "SMALL SCUFFLE" 1997 MIZRAHI BALL BRINGING IT LIKE ASHLEY. HER AND NIAMBI'S RIVALRY AT THE PHILLY AWARDS BALL! ALL OF 1999!!!!! 10 YEAR RIVALRY WITH HER AND MEEKA FOR FQ PERFORMANCE WHERE SHE HAS NEVER WON OVER HER.

INVENTED AND TRADMARKED MOVES: BACKWARDS DUCK WALK, PAINTING NAILS AND OTHER BANGI CUNT GIMMICKS. CHEERLEADER DIP.

CATEGORIES WALKED: LEGENDARY FQ PERFORMANCE, REALNESS, FACE, JUNIOR SEX SIREN, PERFECT 10.

HISTORY: YOLANDA THE FEM QUEEN HELLION OF PERFORMANCE. WHAT SINIA AND ASHLEY STARTED IN THE EARLY 90'S SHE PICKED UP AND TOOK IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL. LIKE A HYBRID ANIMAL SHE CARRIED ATTRIBUTES OF THEIR PERFORMANCE AND MADE IT HER OWN. YOLANDA WAS SOMEONE THAT STARTED VERY YOUNG AND WAS SOMEONE FROM THE BEGINNING THAT WAS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. YOLANDA WOULD COME IN LIKE A THUNDERSTORM AND HER MAIN GOAL WAS TO LEAVE DESTRUCTION IN HER PATH. THEIR WAS AN INNER DEFIANCE WITHIN HER REBELLIOUSNESS THAT SHOWN IN HER PERFORMANCE SIMILAR TO A SCORNED CHILD. ONE OF YOLANDA'S EARLIEST NOTORIOUS PERFORMANCES WAS AT ASHLEY ICON THEN ST CLAIRE BALL 1996. SHE AND MONIQUE MIZRAHI A.K.A. PUSSY WAS ON THE FLOOR BATTLING AND THE CROWD STARTED GOING UP FOR THEM LITTLE DID THEY BOTH KNOW WHAT IT WAS NOT THEM THEY APPLAUDING FOR IT WAS SINIA SHE WAS STORMING FROM THE BACK WITH HIGH KICKS AND THE CROWD WAS GOING BANANAS. PUSSY KINDLY STOOD TO THE SIDE AND HER AND SINIA STARTED BATTLING TO DIN DA DA. THE BATTLE WAS FUELED FROM THE BEGINNING AND SINIA THE ULTIMATE BATTLE CAT AT THE TIME WAS DOING THESE 360 ROUNDHOUSE KICKS TOWARDS YOLANDA THAT STOPPED THE BATTLE. INSTEAD OF PAYING IT THIS LIGHTED THE FIRE WITHIN HER. IN 1997 THE GLORIOUS YEARS OF THE INFAMOUS CLUBHOUSE IS WHERE YOLANDA'S PERFORMANCE GREW AND NERVE THAT CAME ALONG WITH IT. SHE WOULD BATTLE LEGENDS AND BE UNBOTHERED ABOUT IT. THERE WAS WHERE SHE BATTLED LATISHA AND ALSO ASHLEY WHO SHE ATTEMPTED TO CAT FIGHT WITH BUT ASHLEY HAD LOCKED HER. 1997 LATEX BALL IS WHERE SHE BATTLED KRISTINA RICHARD'S TSUNAMI AND WON OVER HER ANOTHER LEGEND AT THAT TIME. THROUGH HER CONSTANTLY VOGUING SHE HONED HER PERFORMANCE YOLANDA INVENTED THE BACKWARDS DUCKWALK AND WHERE SINIA STARTED THE HAIR SWINGING, YOLANDA TOOK IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND WOULD DO IT FOR A WHOLE BATTLE WITH HER STUNTS. LATER IN 1997 IS WHERE SHE AND SINIA MET AGAIN ON THE RUNWAY. THIS TIME AT THE CLUBHOUSE. JACK ASKED WHO DARES DEFY SINIA AND YOLANDA STEPPED ON THE RUNWAY THERE LIKE 2 CATS STUCK IN AN ALLEY THEY BATTLED WHERE THEY WAS GOING HEAD TO HEAD. THE INTENSITY OF THE BATTLE ENDED IN A REAL FIGHT WHICH HAS WENT DOWN IN BALLROOM HISTORY. LATER THAT YEAR IS WHEN YOLANDA LEFT HER FIRST MAJOR PERFORMANCE STAMP ON THE SCENE AT THE 1997 MIZRAHI BALL. THE CATEGORY WAS BRING IT LIKE SINIA SLOW AND SEXY OR LIKE ASHLEY DARING AND DRAMATIC. SHE BROUGHT IT LIKE ASHLEY AND TURNED THE BUILDING OUT. SHE SWUNG HAIR DID ASHLEY MAKAELLA AND HER FINAL DIP WAS A DIP LIKE SHE DIED. FROM THEN ON SHE BECAME A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH IN JANUARY OF 1998 SHE CAME TO PHILLY AND THERE STARTED THE LEGENDARY RIVALRY BETWEEN HER AND NIAMBI PRODIGY THEN EBONY. THERE WAS AN ELECTRICITY BETWEEN BOTH OF THEM THAT LIT UP THE RUNWAY! THEY HAD 3 CATFIGHTS THAT NIGHT THAT ENDED WITH HER WINNING AND FROM THEN ON THEIR RIVALRY WAS ETCHED IN STONE. SHORTLY AFTER AT HER HOUSE OF JOURDAN BALL SINIA CAME OUT TO VOGUE AND YOLANDA STORMED HER WHICH WAS UNHEARD OF AT YOUR OWN BALL. THE DEFIANCE YOLANDA COULD NOT BE CEASED. IN THE MIDDLE OF 1998 SHE TOOK A HIATUS AND WAS BACK ON THE SCENE THAT FOLLOWING YEAR 1999 HER RETURN DEBUT WAS AT THE PHILLY AWARDS BALL 1999 WHERE HER AND NIAMBI MET AGAIN AND THE SAME DRAMA AND INTENSITY REPEATED AGAIN WITH THE SAME RESULTS FOR HER WINNING AGAIN. THAT NIGHT SET THE PRECEDENT OF THE YEAR FOR HER BALLROOM CAREER. WEEKLY SHE WOULD MEET ON THE RUNWAY OF CLUBHOUSE WITH DEJA JANESE AND OTHERS. YOU CAN SAY THAT CLUBHOUSE WAS THE TRAINING GROUNDS OF THAT TIME FOR ALL THE FUTURE VOGUE LEGENDS. SHE AND SINIA ALSO PUT AN END TO THEIR FEUD AND BECAME MOHTER AND DAUGHTER WHICH SPARKED MANY OF DRAMAS ON THE FLOOR. DEJA WHO VOGUED DRAMATIC AT THE TIME WAS A CONSTANT RIVAL TO YOLANDA AND WHEN HER AND ALEXIS STEPPED FOOT IN NY THEY WAS CONSTANTLY AT WAR. AT THE 1999 LATEX BALL WHEN SHE WAS BATTLING DEJA SHE JUMPED OFF THE STAGE. ANOTHER MEMORABLE MOMENT. SHE ALSO TRAVELED TO ATLANTA FOR THE STATE VS STATE BALL. THERE SHE BATTLED REVLON WHO WAS THE ATLANTA RULER OF FQ PERFORMANCE THEN. THAT NIGHT YOLANDA ADDED SOMETHING NEW TO HER PERFORMANCE SHE INFUSED HIP HOP MOVES THE FIRST FEM QUEEN TO DO THAT. YOLANDA HAD ALSO TRAVELED TO BALTIMORE BATTLED DEE DEE REVLON ANOTHER FEM QUEEN PERFORMANCE DIVA. TIME AND TIME AGAIN SHE MARKED HER TERRITORY IN 1999 ALL OVER THE BALLROOM NATION. IN 2000 WAS WHEN THE TIDES TURNED FOR HER THE PREVIOUS YEAR SHE TOOK UNDER THE WING AN APPRENTICE CHRISTINA WHO BECAME ALLOURA JOURDAN. ALLOURA WAS HER PERSONAL SECRET WEAPON WHO TOOK DRAMATICS TO A NEW LEVEL. AT THE TURN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM YOLANDA BRIEFLY LEFT JOURDAN AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF MUGLER WHICH RESULTED IN ALLOURA WINNING OVER HER. SHE SHORTLY WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE OF JOURDAN AND THAT IS WHEN RIVALRY WAS BIRTHED THAT HAS HAD A SPAN OF TEN YEARS WITH MEEKA. WHERE HER AND NIAMBI'S RIVALRY WAS BASED ON THE FLOOR, MEEKA'S AND HERS WAS A SISTER RIVALRY THAT WOULD CLAIM WHO WAS THE TRUE HEIR TO SINIA. THEY BATTLED FOR FQ PERFORMANCE AT THE CLUBHOUSE JANUARY 2000 AND MEEKA CLAIMED THE BATTLE EACH TIME. THE NEXT TIME THEY MET WAS AT THE AWARDS BALL THE FIRST TIME FQ PERFORMANCE WAS FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS MEEKA GOT HER AGAIN THEN AGAIN AT THE REVLON BALL 2000 AND LASTLY THAT YEAR AT A ST CLAIR MINIBALL. YOLANDA VENTURED OFF INTO JUNIOR SEX SIREN AT EBONY BALL 2000. THE FOLLOWING YEAR 2001 YOLANDA WAS GONE FROM THE SCENE FOR PERSONAL REASONS. SHE MADE A BRIEF RETURN IN 2004 AT JACK'S AT SPEED. THE RIVALRY WAS AGAIN REIGNITED WITH MEEKA WHERE THEY BOTH STEPPED ON THE FLOOR READY TO SCRATCH EACH OTHERS EYES OUT BUT THE BATTLE WAS STOPPED BY SINIA FEELING THAT A FIGHT WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE. YOLANDA WOULD MAKE SPORADIC APPERANCES AND IN 2006 BATTLED KRISTINA IN CHICAGO WHERE KRISTINA TOOK HOME GRAND PRIZE. 2007 ICON BALL IS WHEN YOLANDA ONCE AGAIN SHINED TRIUMPHANT. THAT NIGHT SHE BATTLED AND SLAYED KRISTINA AND DEJA DOING CLASSIC YOLANDA BEING BANJI CUNT AND LOOKING PRETTY DOING IT. THAT YEAR SHE ALSO BATTLED AND LOST TO NIAMBI AT THE 2007 POCC BALL AND LATER ON JOINED WITH HER ON A LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE TEAM WHICH THEY TURNED OUT. YOLANDA WAS ALSO FOR A BRIEF TIME THE MOTHER OF PONY'S HOUSE OF ZION. IN 2008 SHE AND MEEKA MET AGAIN AT THE ICON BALL WHICH IS KNOWN FOR THEIR LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE CATEGORY. MEEKA AGAIN TOOK GRAND PRIZE. TWO YEARS LATER AT THE 2010 EVISU BALL YOLANDA DEBUTED AGAIN AS A REVLON THIS TIME AND HER AND MEEKA AS USUAL WAS THE LAST BATTLE WHERE MEEKA TOOK HOME GRANDPRIZE AGAIN WHICH CAUSED CONTROVERSY. YOLANDA HAS PUT INA LOT OF WORK AND MEMORABLE MOMENTS INT HE SCENE AND IS DEFINITELY ON HER WAY TO ICON STATUS!

NOTABLE MENTIONS: ONE OF YOLANDAS TRADEMARKS WAS CONSTANTLY CHANGING HER HAIR EACH WEEK. SHE WOULD CHANGE HER AIR FROM LONG TO SHORT TO BANGS TO PONYTAIL TO VLACK AND MOST NOTORIOUS BLONDE SHE IS DEFINITELY A CHAMELEON IN HER OWN RIGHT. SHE ALSO HAS WALKED AND WON REALNESS.

MOTHER'S DAY

THIS IS THE DAY THAT WE CELEBRATE OUR MOTHERS. THIS IS THE DAY THAT WE THANK THEM FOR BEING OUR MOTHER'S AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR LOVE, HARD WORK, AND DEVOTION. ITS REALLY CRAZY THAT WE HAVE THIS ONE DAY TO DO IT WHEN IT SHOULD BE EVERY DAY. MOST OF US KNOW THAT MOTHERS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR LIFE. THEY ESTABLISH OUR BLUEPRINT THEY GIVE THAT FOUNDATION TO WHOM WE MAY BECOME. A MOTHERS LOVE CANNOT BE PUT INTO WORDS BECAUSE IT IS A POWERFUL EMOTION OR EMOTIONS. WHETHER THEY ARE BIOLOGICAL, ADOPTIVE, SURROGATE, GAY, ETC THAT BOND IS BEAUTIFUL. I WANT TO TAKE THE TIME OUT AND SHARE WITH YOU MY MOTHER. MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY 4 1/2 YEARS AGO. I LOST HERE TO PANCREATIC CANCER AND SOMETIMES IT STILL FEELS LIKE IT JUST HAPPENED. PANCREATIC CANCER IS ON OF THE MOST QUICKEST, DANGEROUS, AND DEADLIEST CANCERS. MY MOTHER ALMOST COLLAPSED INTO A CATATONIC STATE AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL SHORTLY AFTER SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. THE CANCER WAS ALREADY STAGE FOUR AND HAD ALREADY SPREAD TO HER STOMACH, INTESTINES AND GALL BLADDER. THE DOCTORS MADE THIS ACTUALLY HARDER FOR ME BECAUSE I WAS INCARCERATED AT THE TIME. MY MOTHER WAS ONE OF MY BIGGEST SUPPORTS AND THEN ONE DAY THE LETTERS STOPPED. I FELT THIS HOLE IN MY CHEST AND  IN MY HEART THAT I STILL CANT EXPLAIN. I HAD SO MANY EMOTIONS AND REGRETS THAT WENT THROUGH MY SPIRIT THAT I AM STILL WORKING THROUGH. BECAUSE OF MY MOTHERS SITUATION SHE CHOSE NOT TO DIE IN THE HOSPITAL BUT AT HOME IN HOSPICE WHERE SHE PASSED AWAY. OFTEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT WAS SHE FEELING WHAT WAS SOME OF THE THOUGHTS THAT WENT THROUGH HER HEAD. MOST OF ALL I WONDER WHERE SHE DREW THAT STRENGTH FROM TO LAST THOSE 6 WEEKS. I THINK OF MY MOTHER OFTEN AND THE LOVE THAT I FEEL FOR HER IS STILL HERE WITH ME AND IT BURNS STRONGER THAN EVER. IF MY MOHTER WAS HERE RIGHT NOW I THINK OF SOME OF THE THINGS I WOULD SAY TO HER. LIKE MOM DO YOU REMEMBER SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I HATED TO EAT WHEN I WAS A KID I EAT THEM NOW. OR MOM DO YOU REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD TELL ME TO STAY AWAY FORM YOU WAS RIGHT I WAS WRONG. I REMEMBER WHEN I USE TO THINK YOU WAS TOO HARD ON ME FOR SCHOOL I DONT THINK SO NOW YOU DID THE RIGHT THING. I WOULD THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING ME FOR BEING GAY EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST 2 YEARS WAS TOUGH. I REMEMBER YOU MEETING SINIA, ALLOURA, MEEKA, MERCEDES, PONY, AND LOVING ALL OF THEM. ILL NEVER FORGET WHEN YOU CAME TO MY APARTMENT IN D.C. AND STAYED WITH MEEKA FOR 2 WEEKS AND COOKED AND CLEANED FOR US. LOL I ALSO REMEMBER WHEN ALLOURA STARTED GETTING WORK DONE AND I HAD BROUGHT HER WITH ME ONE TIME AND YOU TOLD HERE HOW FEMININE SHE LOOKED AND SHE FELT GOOD. I ALSO REALIZE THAT YOU WAS A PERFON THAT WOULD HOLD A GRUDGE TO SOMEONE BUT SOFTED UP DURING THE YEARS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I LEARNED FROM YOU THAT I AM WORKING ON. I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT YOU AND WHAT I MISS. IF I ONLY HAD ONE DAY WITH YOU! MOST OF ALL WHAT I REMEMBER MOST WAS YOUR LOVE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL AND INFINITE LOVE FOR ME. AND BESIDES GOD I DONT THINK THAT WILL EVER BE MATCHED FOR ME. MY MOST SINCERE ADVICE TO EVERYONE IS TO APPRECIATE THE BOND WITH YOUR MOTHER AND NEVER FORGET WHO SHE IS TO YOU IF YOU HAVE A RIFT WITH HER HEAL IT. DONT HOLD ONTO THINGS THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY REALLY DOESNT MATTER! DONT JUST USE THIS DAY FOR MOTHERS DAY USE EVERY DAY. THANK YOU! PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR MOTHER!

FORGIVENESS, JUST LET IT GO.......

THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ENTRIES, BUT SOMETHING THAT I FEEL WE CAN ALL APPLY TO OUR LIVES. FORGIVENESS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I AM STILL TRYING TO MASTER BECAUSE ITS SOMETHING THAT TAKES TRUE TIME TO UNDERSTAND AND TO TRULY MEAN. WE ALL AT TIMES HOLD GRUDGES THAT ARE SOMETIMES WITH US FOR YEARS. THIS CAN BE TOWARD AND OLD FRIEND, FAMILY MEMBER, AN EX THAT BETRAYED YOU ETC. WE HOLD THESE THINGS AND WE NEVER DEAL WITH THEM WE JUST HARBOR THEM AND NEVER RESOLVE THEM. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IN THE PAST IS THAT THE FUEL OF ENERGY THAT WE PUT INTO THESE IS WASTED. WHILE WE HOLD ON TO THIS NEGATIVITY AND THIS ANGER NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN THE PROJECTED INDIVIDUAL WE HARBOR THIS ON COULD CARE LESS OR IS JUST IN MUCH PAIN AS WE ARE ABOUT WHATEVER THE GRUDGE IS BASED. FOR A LONG TIME IF I FELT THAT A PERSON SLIGHTED ME I WOULD MAKE IT MY PERSONAL GOAL TO NEVER FORGIVE , TO HOLD ON TO THE VENDETTA. IT TOOK ME YEARS TO REALIZE THAT I WAS HURTING MYSELF. HOLDING ON TO THESE THINGS IS HOLDING ON TO NEGATIVE ENERGY WHICH STUNTS YOUR CHARACTER GROWTH. WE ALL HAVE DONE THINGS IN LIFE THAT WAS WRONG TO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL. BUT HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM THEM WHEN WE CANT COMPLETE THE ACT OF FORGIVENESS. I FEEL THAT GAY PEOPLE AS A WHOLE HAS MORE ISSUES TO DEAL WITH THEN MOST PEOPLE. MANY OF US WHEN WE CAME OUT ARE NOT ACCEPTED BY OUR FAMILIES AND WE ARE SHUNNED AND OUT CASTED. WE HAVE HAD MOTHERS AND FATHERS DISOWN US AND WE END UP HATING THEM AND OTHERS. DO YOUR BEST TO UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE FEAR WHAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND SO THEY RATHER OUTCAST US THEN DEAL WITH US. WE MAY OF BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE THAT CHEATED ON US OR BETRAYED US AND EVEN THOUGH YOU BOTH ARE NOT TOGETHER YOU KEEP THAT RESENTMENT AND CARRY IT TO OTHER RELATIONSHIPS. YOU MAKE OTHER PEOPLE SUFFER FOR OTHERS MISGIVINGS. WHEN YOU HOLD THESE THINGS TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP. GRUDGES ARE A WEIGHT ON YOUR SOUL THAT IS SO HEAVY THAT IT WILL SUFFOCATE ALL YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS WITH PEOPLE. SO AS EASY IT MAY SOUND BUT HARD TO DO...... LET IT GO ALL OF IT!!! START FRESH!!! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THAT?

SPOTLIGHT ON NIAMBI PRODIGY

NIAMBI PRODIGY

YEARS ACTIVE- 1992-PRESENT

HOUSE AFFILIATION- EBONY, VITTADINI, PRODIGY

KNOWN FOR- LEGENDARY FQ PERFORMANCE

CATEGORIES- RUNWAY, FQ VOGUE BUTCH, JUNIOR SEX SIREN, FACE

RIVALRIES- DEE DEE REVLON, YOLANDA JOURDAN

HIGHLIGHTS- MARIAH REVLON 1996 BALL SLAYING SINIA WIHT THE MAKAELLAS.
                        THE PHILLY AWARDS BALLS BATTLES WITH YOLANDA ETC.
                         2003 CATFIGHT WITH KRISTINA AT ESCUELITAS

HISTORY- IF NIAMBI'S PERFORMANCE WAS COMPARED TO A CAT SHE HAS THE ABILITIES OF A CHEETAH. THE SWIFTNESS, AGILITY AND THE PRECISION. NIAMBI HAS BEEN KNOWN AS A VOGUING BITCH!!!! SHE WAS THE GIRL FROM PHILLY THAT WOULD VOGUE IN THE NILE AND IN THE SKYLINE THAT COULD VOGUE TO ANYTHING. IF YOU PUT ON SESAME STREET SHE COULD VOGUE TO IT. THAT WAS HER NICHE VOGUING TO THE UNKNOWN OR ANY KNOWN BEAT. HER HANDS WERE DEADLY WEAPONS THAT COULD CATCH ANY BEATS. WHAT MADE NIAMBI'S PERFORMANCE SO DEADLY WAS THE PRECISION THAT CAME ALONG WITH IT. AS NIAMBI MATURED IN THE SCENE SO DID HER PERFORMANCE WHERE THE PRECISION WAS ALREADY TRADEMARKED THE SWIFTNESS AND SPEED DEVELOPED. NIAMBI BY 1996 WAS THE CHEETARAH OF THE FQ PERFORMANCE. AS THE GENERAL CONSENSUS KNOWS THAT ASHLEY INVENTED THE "MAKAELLA" THE DIP THAT WAS A DROP. NIAMBI WAS THE ONE THAT PERFECTED THE MAKAELLA. NIAMBI COULD DROP WITH SO MUCH SPEED AND BE BACK UP SO QUICK AND GO INTO ANOTHER DIP. 1996 MARIAH REVLON'S BALL WAS WHEN NIAMBI SHINED THROUGH SHE AND SINIA WAS HAVING A CATFIGHT AND AT THE THE BEGINNING NIAMBI STARTED THE BATTLE WITH A DEADLY DROP. SINIA WAS DOING FLOOR PERFORMANCE TRYING TO LOCK HER BUT NIAMBI WAS HAVING NONE OF THAT SHE JUMPED BACK INTO A DIP FROM THE FRONT OF THE RUNWAY TO THE BACK AND THE CROWD WENT CRAZY AND SHE SLAYED SINIA. FROM THEN NIAMBI GOT KNOWN FOR HER DIPS SHE BECAME THE MISTRESS OF THE MAKAELLA AND PERFECTED VARIOUS DIPS. ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC THAT NIAMBI PERFECTED IN HER PERFORMANCE IS THAT SHE WOULD EMBODY A CAT WHEN SHE BATTLED SOMEONE! EVERYONE SHE BATTLED SHE WOULD CATFIGHT WITH THEM. CLAW AT THEM, AND HISS AT THEM! SOME OF THE MOST EPIC BATTLES SHE HAD WAS WITH YOLANDA JOURDAN FROM THE FIRST TIME THEY STEPPED ON THE RUNWAY WITH EACH OTHER THEIR RIVALRY IN THE 90'S WAS ETCHED IN STONE. WHEN THEY GOT ON THE RUNWAY THE CROWD WILL ALWAYS STORM THE RUNWAY RESULTING THEM TO BATTLE AT LEAST 3 TIMES. THE INTENSITY OF THEIR BATTLES WOULD ALWAYS RESULT THEM TO READ EACH OTHER AND TO BE IN EACH OTHER'S FACES. WHAT MADE IT EVEN MORE INTENSE IS THAT YOLANDA WOULD WIN EACH TIME. THE FIRST TIME NIAMBI GOT HER WAS AT OCTAVIA'S BALL IN 1999. NIAMBI BROUGHT IT LIKE A BANJI CUNT BARBIE. BY THE ROLL OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM NIAMBI WAS DEEMED LEGEND AND WOULD VOGUE SPORADICALLY BUT WHEN SHE DID WALK SHE WOULD WIN. IN 2003 AT ON OF JACKS MINI BALLS AT ESCUELITA SHE FINALLY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THE LEGENDARY KRISTINA TSUNAMI THE ONLY LEGEND THAT SHE HAD NOT BEATEN BY THAT TIME AS SHE IN THE PAST HAD ALREADY GOT ASHLEY, SINIA, ALYSSA, DEE DEE, ETC. WHEN THEY WAS CALLED OUT FOR LSS THEIR WAS SOME TYPE OF SPARK THAT SET KRISTINA OFF ABOUT NIAMBI AND KRISTINA PULLED HER HAIR AND THEY BOTH STARTED BATTLING. BY THE TIME THEY FINALLY GOT TO BATTLE THAT NIGHT THE INTENSITY WAS ALREADY HEIGHTENED BY THE TIME THEY BOTH MET ON THE FLOOR. THEY BOTH WENT IN ON EACH OTHER BUT KRISTINA PUT HER HANDS ON NIAMBI RESULTING IN NIAMBI WINNING THAT BATTLE. NIAMBI AND YOLANDA MET AGAIN AT THE 2007 POCC BALL WHERE NIAMBI HAD WON THAT FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT WHEN THEY PARTICIPATED TOGETHER ON A LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE TEAM ORCHESTRATED BY LIL KEVIN PRODIGY. NIAMBI RECENTLY APPEARED AT THE PRESTIGE 20TH ANNIVERSARY BALL LAST NOVEMBER. NIAMBI HAS WON VARIOUS OTY IN THE LATE NINETIES FOR FQ PERFORMANCE ALSO.

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE ALL AROUND?

ALL AROUND FQ'S ARE EXTINCT NOW WHAT HAPPENED? BACK IN THE DAY, THEIR WAS SO MANY ALL AROUND FEM QUEENS THAT IT WAS AMAZING. ALYSSA FOR EXAMPLE; IS SOMEONE THAT WALKED EVERYTHING! SHE CONQUERED PERFORMANCE AND FACE ALSO BECAME A RUNWAY DIVA AND A SEX KITTEN! THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON. DANIELLE REVLON WAS SOMEONE THAT CONQUERED ALL HER CATEGORIES SHE WALKED REALNESS, VOGUED SHE WAS THE UNBOTHERED FQ FACE DIVA FOR YEARS, THEY INVENTED SEX SIREN FOR HER AND SHE REIGNED THAT UNTIL SHE PASSED THE TORCH TO SINIA. ASHLEY WAS SOMEONE THAT WALKED REALNESS, VOGUE, LABELS, RUNWAY AND EVEN FACE! THE POINT IS WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LADIES OF YESTERYEAR AND THE ONES OF TODAY! THE POINT OF THE BALLROOM SCENE WAS TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS YOURSELF ON THE FLOOR TO YOUR FULLEST IMAGINATION. IF YOUR BEAUTIFUL WALK FACE, IF YOU KNOW YOU HAD A STERN WALK DO RUNWAY ALSO IF YOUR BODY WAS ON POINT AND SOFT WALK BODY. THE MAJORITY OF THE FEM QUEENS OF YESTERDAY DID NOT PUT THEMSELVES IN A BOX. THEY TAPPED INTO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND GAVE EACH OTHER AND THE BALLROOM SCENE COMPETITION AND FIERCE ENTERTAINMENT. THEIR ARE SO MANY FEM QUEENS THAT ARE OUT TODAY THAT ALSO HAVE THE INGREDIENTS TO BE ALL AROUND AND THEY LIMIT THEMSELVES TO ONE CATEGORY. IF YOU LOOK AT BALL FLYERS THEY HAVE MAYBE FOUR TO FIVE FQ CATEGORIES. THAT IS ABSURD! FQ'S AND DRAG QUEENS WERE THE BELLES OF THE BALL BACK IN THE DAY! THEY HAD SO MANY CATEGORIES TO WALK AND SHOW THEIR TALENT, THE POINT IS THE FEM QUEENS OF TODAY HAVE TO LOOK WITHIN THEMSELVES AND STEP OUT OF THE BOX THAT HAS BEEN CONFINED FOR THEM IN THE RECENT YEARS. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU COULD WALK SOMETHING ELSE AND CAN BRING IT APPROPRIATELY. BRING IT! DONT DOUBT YOURSELF! MY QUESTION IS WHAT DO YOU FEEL HAS HAPPENED TO THE ALL AROUND FQ'S WHAT DO YOU FEEL CAN BE DONE TO INSPIRE FQ'S TO WALK MORE THAN ONE CATEGORY?

LEGEND, IMPACT, TIME, OR DOES IT EVEN MATTER?

THE DEFINITION OF LEGEND IS : (NOUN) 1. A STORY (WHICH MAY OR NOT BE TRUE) HANDED DOWN FROM THE PAST. THE DEFINITION OF LEGENDARY IS (ADJ) 1. OF OR BASED ON LEGENDS, DESCRIBED IN A LEGEND 2. FAMOUS OFTEN TALKED ABOUT. THE LEGEND ISSUE IN THE BALLROOM SCENE THE LAST 4-5 YEARS HAS WENT HAYWIRE. SOMETIMES THE DEBATE IS TREATED AS SERIOUS AS ANY OF THE 3 TO 4 WARS THAT OUR WORLD IS INVOLVED IN AT A PRESENT TIME. YEARS AGO BEING "LEGENDARY" WAS NEVER AN ISSUE OR CARE. WHEN ONE WAS CALLED LEGEND IT WAS NEVER QUESTIONED OR DOUBTED. YOU KNEW WHEN SOMEONE WAS LEGENDARY THAT IT WAS A PRIVILEGE AND AN HONOR BESTOWED UPON THEM. THOSE PEOPLE WERE REVERED, RESPECTED, AND HONORED IN THE SCENE. THERE WERE PEOPLE BACK THEN THAT MAY OF BEEN CALLED UP AND COMING LEGEND AND MAY OF NEVER BEEN CALLED LEGEND AND THEY DIDN'T CARE. PEOPLE WERE MORE CONCERNED WITH TURNING THE CATEGORY OUT AND WITH HAVING FUN. STATUS BACK THEN WAS EARNED NOT GIVEN OUT BECAUSE OF A DEFINITE TIME FRAME OR BECAUSE THEY ASKED FOR IT. THE POINT BLANK FACT WAS TO BE CALLED A LEGEND WAS THE PINNACLE OF A PERSONS BALL WALKING CAREER. IT WAS NEVER A QUESTION THAT DANIELLE OR OCTAVIA WERE LEGEND IT WAS A KNOW FACT. EVEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM WHEN PERFORMANCE AND OTHER CATEGORIES STARTED TO CHANGE IT WAS NOT AN ISSUE BUT 5 OR 6 YEARS INTO THE MILLENNIUM IT DEFINITELY BECAME ONE. LETS FIRST TALK ABOUT IMPACT. IMPACT IS DEFINITELY A REASON THAT SHOULD EFFECT AND DECLARE LEGENDARY STATUS. SINIA AND ASHLEY IN THE EARLY NINETIES CAME AND CHANGED AND REVOLUTIONIZED FEM QUEEN PERFORMANCE. THEY WERE CALLED LEGENDARY AFTER 3 TO 4 YEARS AND IT WAS NOT QUESTIONED. THEY HAD THE HOTTEST RIVALRY AND PEOPLE WOULD ATTEND BALLS TO SEE THEM TWO GO AT IT. THEY KNEW THAT SINIA AND ASHLEY THEN BOO BOO WOULD DELIVER A SHOW AND THEY WOULD GET THEIR ENTERTAINMENT. RENEE KARAN FROM PHILLY WAS ALSO CALLED LEGENDARY AFTER A FEW YEARS BECAUSE SHE HELPED PUT PHILADELPHIA ON THE MAP. SHE WAS SOMEONE THAT WALKED FACE, BODY, REALNESS AND PERFORMANCE AND IT WAS UNDENIABLE WHAT SHE COULD DO WHEN SHE WALKED. THESE ARE SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT HAVE DECLARED THESE PEOPLE LEGENDARY BASED ON IMPACT. THEY CAME IN AND TOOK CHARGE OF THEIR CATEGORIES AND MADE THEIR NAMES AND ARE ALL UNFORGETTABLE! OTHER EXAMPLES BASED ON IMPACT IS PONY HE CAME AND SLAYED BQ VOGUE FEM BEFORE THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND WAS LIKE A MISSILE WHEN HE TOOK OFF. 2000 AND HE WAS PUNISHING THE CATEGORY STATE TO STATE AND HAD DRAMATICS ON A CHOKE HOLD. THEY WAS CALLING HIM LEGENDARY AT THE 2004 POCC BALL IN NY, BUT EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW HOW HE IMPACTED THE CATEGORY. HE DID NOT ACTUALLY WALK LEGENDARY VOGUE FEM UNTIL 2008. HE DID THIS BECAUSE HE WANTED TO RESPECT THE ARCHAIC GUIDELINES THAT YOU ARE NOT LEGENDARY UNTIL YOU WALKED FOR 10 YEARS! I FEEL IMPACT CAN ALSO BE TIED WITH TIME! LETS TALK ABOUT LEYOMI MIZRAHI SHE STEPPED ONTO THE SCEN IN 2003 BUT FROM 2005 TO PRESENT SHE HAS BEEN SLAYING HER CATEGORY TIME AND TIME AGAIN. WHERE MEEKA, DAEJA, AND ALLOURA SLAYED FOR THE FIRST 5 YEARS SHE CAME IN AND TOOK OFF LIKE A HELICOPTER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. PEOPLE READ AND CASTIGATED THAT SHE WAS MADE LEGENDARY IN 2010 BUT REALLY HOW CAN THEY. JUST AS THE LADIES BEFORE HER CAME AND CHANGED PERFORMANCE AND THE LADIES BEFORE THEM WHICH IS SINIA AND ASHLEY. SHE ALSO HAS REVOLUTIONIZED FQ PERFORMANCE, SHE HAS WON OVER LEGENDS AND BATTLED COUNTLESS OF PEOPLE. SHE HAS STORMED THROUGH HOUSES AND WON GRAND PRIZES. EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS NOT TOUCHED 10 YEARS HER IMPACT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, WE ARE NOT EVEN GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUTSIDE ACCOMPLISHMENTS WE ARE GOING TO BASE IT ONLY ON BALLROOM SCENE. WHEN YOU THINK OF A LEGEND YOUR SUPPOSED TO THINK ABOUT SOMEONE WHO IS UNFORGETTABLE. DO YOUR THINK YOU WILL EVER FORGET ABOUT LEYOMI'S NAME. I DOUBT IT BECAUSE SH HAS MARKED A TERRITORY IN THE BALLROOM SCENE THAT CAN NO BE CHANGED EITHER. BEING LEGEND ALSO CONSISTS OF PUTTING A STAMP ONTO YOUR CATEGORY AND SHE HAS DONE JUST THAT. YOU CAN EVEN TALK ABOUT SOMEONE LIKE JANESE CHANEL SHE HAS WALKED BALLS SINCE 97 AND EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS NEVER AN OTY GIRL OR AT MOST MAJOR BALLS YOU KNEW HER PERFORMANCE. SHE STARTED IN THE LEGENDARY CLUBHOUSE ERA AND BATTLED LEGENDS AND HAD HER OWN PERFORMANCE. THEIR HAS BEEN TIMES WHERE HER STATUS HAVE BEEN QUESTIONED BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT ALSO SHOULD BE CONSIDERED LEGENDARY. ATTITUDE, CONFIDENCE AND NERVE! FOR SOMEONE TO BE QUESTIONED IS EMBARRASSING  BUT TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND GET ON THE RUNWAY AGAIN IS CONFIDENCE. YOU HAVE TO BE CONFIDENT IN WHAT YOU KNOW YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE BALLROOM SCENE. YOU KNOW THAT SHE FUSED JANET JACKSON MOVES WITH HER PERFORMANCE WHO ELSE HAS DONE THAT? NO ONE BUT HER. SHE HAS WALKED BALLS OVER 14 YEARS SO SHE IS WELL OVER THE 10 YEAR MARK SO WHY DID HER STATUS HAVE TO GET QUESTION? THEN YOU HAVE THE COMPARISON ISSUE A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPARE THEMSELVES TO OTHER PEOPLE AND FEEL THEY SHOULD BE LEGENDARY. THEY FEEL IF THEY THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN SINCE 1996 AND THIS NEXT INDIVIDUAL STARTED IN 2002 THEN HOW IS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO STARTED WALKING IN 2002 LEGENDARY? YOU CAN NEVER BASE YOU CAREER ON THE NEXT PERSON THEY MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN YOU HAVE THEY MAY OF BEEN NATIONWIDE YOU MAY  ONLY OF SLAYED IN YOUR HOME STATE. THIS CAN GO ON AND ON YOU MAY HAVE A BALLROOM SCENE OUT IN LETS SAY IDAHO THERE BALLROOM SCENE MAY CONSIST OF 50 PEOPLE BUT YOU MAY HAVE A PERSON THAT HAS BEEN WALKING FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS THERE TO THAT HOMETOWN IN BOISE, IDAHO THAT PERSON IS LEGENDARY. BUT HE MAY COME TO NY AND NOT BE RECOGNIZED AT ALL! SO IS THAT A LOCAL LEGEND? EVEN IF HE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SCENE IN IDAHO! THE POINT IS THIS DEBATE CAN GO ON AND ON. MY QUESTION TO YOU DOES IT EVEN MATTER ANYMORE HAVING LEGENDARY STATUS? WHAT DO YOU THINK CONSTITUTES A LEGEND? WHAT DO YOU FEEL SHOULD CHANGE ABOUT LEGENDARY STATUS!

BALL FEVER

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE BALL FEVER?  WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PART OF THE SCENE HAVE HAD IT AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. WHEN YOU ARE FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE SCENE IT CAN BE A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE. ITS LIKE AN UNDERGROUND PORTAL HAS OPENED AND ANOTHER WORLD IS THERE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE FIRST COMING OUT YOU ARE NOW IN THE COMPANY OF A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY LIKE YOU. ALL THOSE YEARS THINKING THAT YOU WAS SOME TYPE OF FREAK OR ANOMALY THAT YOU WAS ALONE YOU SEE NOW HOW WRONG YOU WERE. NOW YOU SEE THINGS YOU'VE NEVER SAW BEFORE. MASCULINE GUYS WHO ARE GAY WHO YOU WOULD NEVER OF IMAGINED. DRAG QUEENS THAT A PRETTY PROUD OF THEIR WORK. YOU SEE INDIVIDUALS THAT YOU WOULD NEVER QUESTION OR THINK ABOUT THAT LOOK LIKE WOMEN BUT YOU ARE BEING TOLD THEY ARE "FEM QUEENS". THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON BUT MOSTLY IN THIS WORLD YOU SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMFORTABLE BEING THEMSELVES IN THE OWN SKIN. THEY ARE AS EFFEMINATE  AND FLAMBOYANT AS THEY WANT TO BE AND ITS NOT FROWNED UPON OR LOOKED UPON AS WRONG. NOW THAT YOU ARE IN THIS WORLD YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT, BE APART OF IT, AND BREATHE IT! AS BEAUTIFUL AS A BALL CAN BE JUST LIKE A MOTH TO A FLAME, THE FIRE CAN CONSUME YOU LIKE AN INFERNO. AT FIRST YOU ARE SPECTATING AND THEN PEOPLE START TO "SEE YOU" PEOPLE TAKE INTEREST IN YOU THEY SEE YOU FOR A CATEGORY OR EVEN BETTER YET YOU SEE A CATEGORY WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. SO YOU START WALKING AND YOU MAY BE GETTING THAT FAME BECAUSE YOU ARE NEW AND ITS HOT FOR YOU. YOU ARE TOLD THAT TO MAKE YOUR NAME YOU NEED TO TRAVEL. YOU LEARN BALLS ARE NOT JUST IN YOU LOCAL CITY ITS NATIONWIDE. YOU WANT TO CONQUER IT NOW CITY BY CITY. SO YOU GO TO EVERY BALL NO MATTER WHERE IT IS. YOU SPEND YOUR LAST DOLLAR ON A BALL AND HAVE EMPTY POCKETS. YOU SPENT ALL YOUR MONEY ON A BALL EFFECT AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN PAID YOUR PHONE BILL LOL. THESE ARE ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS OF BALL FEVER. OR YOU ARE DEAD BROKE AND YOU MISS THE BALL THE WHOLE NIGHT YOU ARE MISERABLE SIMILAR TO NURSING A BROKEN HEART. YOU FEEL LIKE ITS THE END OF THE WORLD THAT YOU MISSED THIS FUNCTION. WHEN YOU WAKE UP EVERYDAY THE FIST THING YOU THINK ABOUT IS THE NEXT BALL YOU ARE GOING TO SLAY AND PUNISH. RESPONSIBILITIES LIKE WORK OR SCHOOL ARE BEING NEGLECTED. THE THING ABOUT BALL FEVER THERE ARE SO MANY SYMPTOMS THAT YOU DO NOT EVEN REALIZE IT UNTIL IT TRULY HAS CONSUMED YOU. I'VE SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAS JEOPARDIZED THEIR LIVES FOR BALLS. THEY WERE IN SCHOOL OR HAD A GOOD JOB AND THEY GOT INTO BALLS AND IT WAS A WRAP. AS FUN AS BALLS CAN BE IT CAN ALSO BE DESTRUCTIVE! AS S ANYTHING THAT IS DONE IN EXCESS CAN HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE. THE CURE TO BALL FEVER IS BALANCE. YOU CAN MISS A FEW BALLS REMEMBER TO PRIORITIZE. BALLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES AND ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE IN THE FUTURE. AS IN ALL THINGS IN LIFE YOU NEED BALANCE. WHEN ONE THING OR CAUSE HAS ALL YOUR DEDICATION AND TIME SOMETHING ELSE WILL SUFFER AND BE NEGLECTED. REMEMBER BALLS ARE FOR FUN AND SHOULD BE A HOBBY OR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY. DO NOT MAKE IT YOUR LIVES WORK BECAUSE YOU LIFE WILL SUFFER IN SOME WAY IN THE LONG RUN! HAVE YOU EVER HAD A BALL FEVER OR KNEW SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU WITH IT? TELL YOUR STORY!

VOGUE, HAS IT BEEN A TRUE EVOLUTION?

THE DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH SOMETHING DEVELOPS GRADUALLY INTO A DIFFERENT FORM.  DOES THAT SOMETHING NECESSARILY MEAN BETTER?  HAS VOGUE IN LETS SAY THE LAST 5-6 YEARS... IS IT BETTER THAN LETS SAY 10 YEARS AGO OR 15 YEARS EVEN?  IF THAT QUESTION WAS ASKED TO ME IF I WAS TO ANSWER HONESTLY I KNOW I WOULD SAY NO.  YES PEOPLE ARE FASTER, MORE DRAMATIC, AND CAN MOVE TO ALL THE PRESENT CHANTS AND SPIN LIKE HELICOPTERS, BUT CAN THEY TRULY VOGUE?  WHEN I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO PERFORMANCE WHAT AMAZED ME WAS THE MOVEMENT, THE GRACE, AND MOST OF ALL THE ORIGINALITY.  IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE HAD THEIR OWN STYLE THEIR OWN NICHE THEIR OWN SIGNATURE MOVES.  BACK THEN IF YOU HAD CLOAKED EVERYONE OR CONCEALED THEM FROM HEAD TO TOE THE WAY YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO TLL THEM APART WAS BY THEIR PERFORMANCE.  YOU COULD TELL SINIA'S CATWALK, YOU COULD TELL ASHLEY'S DUCKWALK, ANDRES HANDS ETC.  IF YOU HAD A CAMERA AND TOOK DOZENS OF FILM ON THEM AND DEVELOPED THEM THE PICTURES WOULD DEVELOP INTO PICTURES FULL OF POSES AND YOU CAN ALMOST SEE HOW PALPABLE THEIR PERFORMANCE WAS.  NO ONE COULD VIBRATE LIKE EUGENE OR SHAKE AND VOGUE TO "SHAKE YOUR BODY" BY JEANETTE THOMPSON LIKE LATICIA.  NOW IF YOU WAS TO CONCEAL EVERYONE HOW WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO TELL THEM APART.  MOSTLY HOW COULD YOU TRULY JUDGE WHEN EVERYONE IS ALMOST IDENTICAL!  MOST OF THE ORIGINALITY IS EXTINCT I DONT THINK EVOLVED.  EVEN WHEN IN THE LATE 90'S AND EARLY 2000 WHEN PONY AND ALLOURA WAS TAKING DRAMATICS TO A NEW LEVEL YOU COULD STILL SEE THAT IT WAS THEIR PERFORMANCE AND IT HAD THE ELEMENTS IN THEM.  NOW MOSTLY YOU SEE SPINS, DIPS, CHOREOGRAPHED HANDS FOR A FEW SECONDS, SLOPPY CATWALKS, ETC.  WHEN DID PERFORMANCE BECOME A DIP FOR DIP MATCH OR A SPINNING CONTEST?  WHAT CAN THE BALLROOM SCENE DO TO ENCOURAGE ALL THE NEW TALENT IN ALL THE VOGUE CATEGORIES TO FIND THEIR OWN PERFORMANCE TO BROADEN THEIR OWN.  VOGUE WAS NOT JUST ABOUT THE DANCE OR THE TALENT, IT WAS ABOUT THAT INDIVIDUALS IMAGINATION AND HOW MUCH OF IT COULD THEY DRAW ON TO MAKE THEIR PERFORMANCE AN ART.  I FEEL LIKE THE OLDER GENERATIONS NEED TO PASS ON THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO USE THEIR IMAGINATION TO MAKE THEM TRULY VOGUE.  WHAT DO YOU FEEL ABOUT TODAYS PERFORMANCE, HAS IT EVOLVED OR IS IT NEAR EXTINCTION?

BALLROOM THROWBACKS 2011

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GLAMOUR OF FEM QUEEN FACE?

SOMETIMES I THINK OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVED MOST ABOUT THE BALLROOM SCENE WHEN I CAME OUT.  EVERYONE THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS THAT VOGUE WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE MY FIRST LOVE.  WHAT COMES INTO A CLOSE SECOND HAS TO BE FQ FACE!  WHEN I CAME OUT THE BEAUTY'S OF THAT TIME THAT GRACED THE FLOOR WERE VANESSA MIZRAHI, AYANA KHAN , MISHA MILAN, CHEYENNE ALLURE ETC.  EACH OF THESE LADIES WERE BEAUTIFUL AND HAD THERE OWN UNIQUE LOOK. VANESSA ON ANY GIVEN DAY COULD GIVE YOU AN OLD HOLLYWOOD STARLET OR SWITCH INTO A BARBIE DOLL VIXEN.  AYANA KHAN HAD SKIN OF DEW AND A SMILE THAT COULD MELT THE SHADIEST JUDGE DOWN.  MISHA MILAN WAS PURE GLAMOUR EXOTICA SHE WOULD SWITCH HER HAIR FROM LIGHT TO DARK AND LOOKED LIKE SHE REEKED OF MONEY.  CHEYENNE APHRODITE ALLURE WAS A PURE UNADULTERATED DARK SKINNED BEAUTY.  HER STARE COULD COMMAND A BALLROOM FLOOR THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER GIRLS THAT CAN BE NAMED FROM THAT ERA THAT WERE AND IS SO BEAUTIFUL BUT WERE ALL DIFFERENT.  WHAT THEY ALL HAD IN COMMON WAS THAT THEY WERE UNIQUE!  I REMEMBER HOW BEAUTIFUL I THOUGHT THEY WERE THEN I WOULD SEE BALLROOM TAPES FROM YEARS BEFORE AND SEE EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL FEM QUEENS. TANAY PENDAVIS, TRACEY AFRICA, MOLDAVIA LABEIGA, DANIELLE REVLON, OCTAVIA ST LAURENT, ONJANAE MILAN, ETC.  THESE ARE THE STORIES THAT YOU HEAR NOW THAT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE MYTHS.  HOW AT A BALL SOMETIMES FQ FACE WOULD BE THE MOST AWAITED CATEGORY OF THE NIGHT.  THEY WOULD DIM THE LIGHT AND THE CATEGORY WOULD BE CALLED AND THE "GIRLS" WOULD COME OUT THE WOOD WORKS THEY WOULD BE HIDING OUT FOR HOURS JUST WAITING FOR THIS CATEGORY.  EACH GIRL WOULD COME OUT AND STORM THE RUNWAY( AND SOMETIMES EACH OHTER) AND THE BALLROOM WOULD BE IN A CHAOTIC FRENZY.  THE THING ABOUT THESE LADIES WAS THEY WERE NOT JUST LOVELY THEY WERE REAL!  SOME OF THEM LOOKED LIKE THEY COULD OF STEPPED OFF A VOGUE OR COSMOPOLITAN COVER.  THEY WERE GLAMOROUS AND CONFIDENT AND THEY DRIPPED OF COMPETITIVENESS!  WHAT I FEEL IS EVEN MORE AMAZING ABOUT THESE LADIES DEDICATION IS NOT JUST THEIR BEAUTY BUT THAT WOULD DO THIS FOR COMPETITION, A TROPHY! $5,000 CASH WAS NOT GIVEN AWAY BACK THEN THIS WAS ALL FOR COMPETITION, AND SHADY RIVALRY'S!  THE GIRLS WOULD SPEND TONS OF MONEY ON THEMSELVES FROM HEAD TO TOE SO THEY COULD COME AND DECREE FOR A NIGHT!  MY QUESTION TO EVERYONE IS WHAT HAPPENED?  IF WE GET A HOT FQ FACE BATTLE WE ARE LUCKY.  THE ONLY TIME WE MAY GET ANYTHING CLOSE TO THAT IS A HOT BALL IN ATLANTA! WHY HAS THE COMPETITION DWINDLED SO MUCH FOR THIS CATEGORY.  WE STILL HAVE SOME BEAUTY'S THAT ARE PART OF THIS GENERATION WITH THE SAME POTENTIAL AS THE LADIES IN THE GENERATION BEFORE. TRACE MIZRAHI, LOLA BALENCIAGA, NADIA MILAN, SHANNON KHAN, AMIYAH CHANEL, ETC.  SOME OF THESE NAMED LADIES AND OTHERS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE THIS CATEGORY FEATURED AND HOT AGAIN BUT WHAT WILL IT TAKE?  HOW CAN WE APPLY THE FORMULA FROM PREVIOUS GENERATIONS AND DRAW THE SAME COMPETITION AND FERVOR THAT THIS CATEGORY HELD FOR SO MANY YEARS?

BALLROOM THROWBACKS REVOLUTION............2011

BALLROOM THROWBACKS REVOLUTION............

BQ SEX SIREN PAST AND PRESENT........

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BALLROOM THROWBACKS CALENDAR ON SALE 12-23-2010

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BALLROOM THROWBACKS YEAR OVERVIEW....................

WELL THE YEAR WILL SOON TO BE A CLOSE AND 2011 WILL BE HERE.IT HAS BEEN OVER 8 MONTHS SINCE I HAVE LAUNCHED THE BALLROOM THROWBACKS COMPANY AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN DOING MY BEST TO PUT FORTH A PRODUCT THAT IS FANTASTIC, FABULOUS, AND WORTHY OF BALLROOM HISTORY PAST, PRESENT, AND OTHERWISE! THERE IS SO MANY THINGS WITH THE SCENE THAT I STILL THINK NEED WORK BUT IT CAN ONLY BE DONE IF ALL PEOPLE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY! A GAP HAS TO BE BRIDGED BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW.THE OLD HAS TO APPRECIATE THE NEW TALENT AND REALIZE THAT THINGS CHANGE AND EVOLVE AND IT MAY NOT BE THE BEST THING BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. THE NEW HAS TO REALIZE THAT RESPECT IS IMPORTANT AND PAYING HOMAGE TO HISTORY AND THE ONES THAT HAVE MADE ALL THIS POSSIBLE IS IMPORTANT. HERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT I FEEL COULD MAKE THE SCENE BETTER FOR 2011.

1.         TOO MANY BALLS ON ONE WEEKEND OR THE SAME DATES IS ABSURD IT MAKES IT HARD FOR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE TO GO TOO! IT ALSO CAUSES DISCENSION BETWEEN STATES AND A SEPARATION AMONG THE BALLROOM SCENE. SPACE BALLS OUT AND STILL HAVE GOOD MINIBALLS, WHICH IS GOOD PRACTICE FOR PEOPLE TO HONE THEIR CRAFT AND TO SERVE THE MAJOR BALLS.

2.         CASH PRIZES ARE BEAUTIFUL AND CAN INTENSIFY THE COMPETITION BUT I FEEL A LOT OF IT HAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE SCENE BACK IN THE DAYS PEOPLE PERFORMED FOR FREE AND WOULD PUT SO MUCH WORK IN THEIR EFFECTS! THAT SAME EFFORT SHOULD BE PUT IN WHETHER ITS FOR 5 DOLLARS OR 5,000!

3.         THERE SHOULD BE MORE LEGENDARY CATEGORIES SO PEOPLE CAN WALK WITH THEIR PEERS AND NEW AND BURGEONING TALENTS CAN WALK WITH EACH OTHER!

4.         THE “LEGEND” STATUS HAS GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL AND I HOPE FOR THE NEW YEAR PEOPLE WOULD GET BACK TO HOW IT USTE TO BE WHEN IT DID NOT MATTER! PEOLE DID NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR STATUS THEIR GOAL WAS TO WALK HAVE FUN MAKE AN IMPACT AND TURN OUT THE NEXT ONE IF THEY DID NOT WIN! WE NEED TO GET THAT FUN AND HEALTHY COMPETITION BACK IN IT!

5.         THE OLDER GENERATION HAS TO TEACH THE YOUNGER GENERATION THE MEANING OF CATEGORIES SO IT CAN SHOWN WHAT IS BEING LOOKED FOR. EXAMPLE REALNESS WITH A TWIST WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE REALNESS AND WHATEVER YOUR TWIST WAS MADE IT EXCITING NOW IT IS STRICTLY ABOUT THE VOGUING. I FEEL LIKE THE CATEGORY NEEDS TO BE SEPARATED MAYBE CALL IT TWISTER BECAUSE A LOT OF THE TWISTERS VOGUE JUST AS OR EVEN BETTER THEN THE VOGUE FEMS.

6.         I CANNOT TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO BUT I FEEL THE LEADERS NEED TO BE STRONGER WITH THE KIDS AND THEIR PEERS IN REGARDS TO THE DRUGS.IT IS SO RAMPANT IN THE SCENE AND IS DESTROYING THE YOUTH. WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT A LOT OF THE YOUNG KIDS LOOK UP TO PEOPLE AND TO WHAT THEY DO SO THEY BELIEVE CERTAIN BEHAVIORS AND VICES ARE ACCEPTABLE.WE NEED TO SET GOOD EXAMPLES THAT THEY CAN FOLLOW AND PASS ALONG.

WELL THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I CAN THINK OF THERE IS SO MANY MORE BUT THE BEST WE CAN DO IS JUST COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT I CAN TO PUT OUT HISTORY GIVE GOOD BALLS AND GOOD PRODUCTS! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!!!