The Art of Vogue consists of your hand performance, catwalk, duckwalk, spins and dips, and floor performance.
The Art of Runway consists of your walk, poses, spins/pivots, personality/attitude, and the use of your garment. In these introductory workshops, you will gain a baseline understanding of these elements from masters and legends from the House|ballroom community.
Workshop #1 – Voguing with Legendary Renaldo 007
08.01.2021 / 18:30 – 19:15 (Central European Time – CET)
Instructions: Come with a open mind, spirit, and heart. Please clear your space, and be prepared to stretch and sweat
Legendary Renaldo 007 was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He began his dance training with Tony Simpson and is a graduate of Talent Unlimited High School. He attended the Emerson School for Visual and Performing Arts and studied with Larry Brewer and Michael Davis. Legendary Renaldo 007 was a scholarship student at The Ailey School, has trained on scholarship at Ballet Chicago and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, and had an internship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. In 2008, he received second place in modern dance from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and received the Dizzy Feet Foundation Scholarship in 2009. In February 2012, Legendary Renaldo 007 was honored with the key to the city of Gary, Indiana, his hometown and also named a state representative. He has incorporated his passion for dance with the need for social responsibility by working as the Co-Artistic Director of the South Shore Dance Alliance back home in Indiana. He was a member of Ailey II for 3 years and has been a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company since 2011.
Admission free. No registration required.
On Zoom: click here the D-day to attend the event.
Workshop in English. All levels, beginners are welcome!
Workshop #2 – Runway withTwiggy Pucci Garçon
08.01.2021 / 19:30 – 20:15 (Central European Time – CET)
Instructions: Come as you are. Heels are a plus, not a must. Please make room to take at least 8 steps in any direction.
Raised in a southern, religious, predominantly Black community, today, Twiggy Pucci Garçon stands as a proud non-binary member of the LGBTQ+ community. As an activist, advocate, healer and creator, Twiggy Pucci Garçon attributes the balance of struggle and strength they witnessed and experienced, early in life, to their ability to maneuver through spaces of power and represent for people without. Since finding support in the ballroom community at a very crucial moment in their life, they leverages every opportunity to generate conversations around equity for LGBTQ+ young people and create quality spaces for them to be centered in making decisions and solutions around the issue of homelessness. Twiggy Pucci Garçon currently serves as the Chief Program Officer for True Colors United. They has also received extensive visibility for their work as a runway trainer and performance artist. Twiggy Pucci Garçon was also a featured subject in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ HBO documentary feature film The OUT List. They serve as a consultant and runway choreographer on Ryan Murphy’s Emmy nominated hit FX series, POSE, and sit on the Board of Directors for Doc Society.
Admission free. No registration required.
On Zoom. Click here the D-day to attend the event.
Workshop in English. All levels, beginners are welcome!
With support from the Swedish Arts Council.
The Runway and Voguing workshops consist of an introduction to the voguing ball PASSÉ-PRÉSENT-FUTUR which is one of the three projects arising from the collaboration with the Swedish artist and filmmaker Sara Jordenö and the US activist artist Twiggy Pucci Garçon: an exhibition documenting the art project in public space, The Reincarnation of Rockland Palace (2012); several screenings of the documentary film KIKI made in 2016; and a new performance event in the form of a French-Swedish-American Ball.