On the Cover of Vogue Ball

On the Cover of Vogue Ball As part of the exhibition Irving Penn: Centennial, C/O Berlin presents a Vogue Ball for the first time under the direction of Zueira Mizrahi, member of the House of Mizrahi voguing family.
“Strike a pose! ... Magical, life’s a ball, so get up on the dancefloor, Vogue!” sang Madonna in her 1990 hit, first presenting voguing to a mainstream audience. The same year saw the premiere of the documentary film Paris is Burning. Influenced by the magazines, runways, and models of the glamorous fashion world, voguing, part of New York’s gay, transsexual, African- and Latin-American subculture, has its origins in the Harlem of the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, so-called “ballroom communities” have sprung up worldwide, from Germany to France to Japan. Voguing is queer, loud, expressive, and more than just a dance style. Marginalized from white, heteronormative, and privileged society, members created so-called “houses” with “ballrooms”-their own spaces where they could pose as stars and imitate a glamorous world-and that as opulently and naturally as possible. Here, Vogue Balls merged into competitions, with a jury choosing a winner in each category.
nspired by Irving Penn’s countless covers for Vogue, the dancers will gather at C/O Berlin and translate the fashion shots, portraits, and still lifes of the photographer of the century into the movements and poses typical of voguing.
The jury consists of Honeysha Khan (Paris), Willow Mizrahi (Paris), Vinii Revlon (Paris), Marina Ultra Omni (Amsterdam), and Ritchy Ladurée (Paris). They number among, as does the host Zueira Mizrahi (Berlin), the protagonists of the European voguing scene. The competition includes the categories “Posing,” “Runway,” and “Realness.”
Jury
Honeysha Khan (Paris)
Willow Mizrahi (Paris)
Vinii Revlon (Paris)
Marina Ultra Omni (Amsterdam)
Ritchy Ladurée (Paris)
Commentator Matyouz Ladurée (Paris)
DJ Lucy Liu Ninja (Berlin)
Host Zueira Mizrahi (Berlin)