Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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?
Monday, April 11, 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?
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
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!!!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Friday, November 19, 2010
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
FACE OPINION OR FACTUAL?
CARTA? WHAT IS THE ACTUAL DEFINITION OF CARTA ? THEY SAY IT CONSISTS OF THE SKIN,THE NOSE,THE STRUCTURE,AND THE TEETH. YOU CAN HAVE ALL THESE THINGS AND WALK AND STILL WIN OR MAYBE GET CHOPPED FACE IS ONE OF THE CATEGORIES THAT HAS LOST ITS IMPACT OVER THE YEARS! THEIR WAS A TIME WHEN THIS CATEGORY WAS ADORED AND WAITED FOR THE WHOLE NIGHT.NOW IF WE GET A FEW PEOPLE TO WALK WE ARE LUCKY. MY OPINION ABOUT FACE IS HOW CAN WE REALLY JUDGE THAT WHEN IT IS MAINLY OPINION BASED? WHAT YOU MAY FIND ATTRACTIVE I MAY NOT AND SO FORTH.EVEN BEING FAIR WHAT ABOUT WHEN TWO PEOPLE ARE IN FRONT OF YOU EQUALLY GORGEOUS WHAT IS REALLY FAIR ABOUT AN OPINION?LET ME HEAR YOU GUYS OPINIONS ON THIS CAN FACE BE TRULY JUDGED? IS FACE OPINION OR FACT BASED?
Friday, November 12, 2010
NIAMBI VS YOLANDA
NIAMBI THE FELINE OF DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE SHE WILL HISS AT YOU AND CLAW AND GIVE YOU A PERFORMANCE OF PRECISION,DRAMA,AND MOST OF ALL THE ELEMENTS.....YOLANDA THE DRAMTIC BANGI CUNT OF PERFORMANCE STUNTS AND ANTICS AND THE HAIR SWING IN THE 90'S THAY HAD SOME OF THE HOTTEST BATTLES EACH BATTLE THEY WOULD BATTLE NO LESS THEN 3 TIMES AND WOULD SET THE RUNWAY ON FIRE WITH THE CONTRAVERSY OF THEIR CATFIGHTS YOU BE THE JUDGE WHO WOULD EAT IT? WHO WOULD SERVE?
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