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Voguing battles are sick af

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I don't understand this dance, nor care for it much, but I really like it when FKA twigs does it.

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two vouge thumbs up
 
I've been meaning to gif stuff from Paris Is Burning. Some of that shit is just killing me softly.

vogueing is completely incredible and all of you with negative opinions of it can absolutely get fucked
Thank you. Vogueing is automatically amazing.
 
Just watched that Paris is Burning documentary and man, that ending and reading about what happened to the rest of them is heart breaking. You also really feel for them and their situation, explaining how Voguing and ballroom is an escape for them to live out their own dreams on their terms, while at the same time knowing full well they'll never have access to the white American standard of luxury and fame. But that they continue to long for some recognition and access to that, despite knowing that their very existence is unacceptable to the general population.
 
Ok, didnt know this was even a thing, much less having actual battle competitions. I will give props since you still need some physical talent to pull those moves off.
 
Im all for different forms of dancing. And I respect whats going on here. None of it looks easy.

But wow, dont think I'd ever be caught dead doing this.
 
The MC guy is amazing when he gets out there in the middle of that second video posted!

I kinda never noticed before even though I was familiar with Paris Is Burning, but a lot of the jpop group Perfume's dances are near voguing with the poses and all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KHEL_BnXw

I think I also picked up on some of this in Kylie's Fever era dances and live shows where the dance moves were very pose based.

And then Robo Z from Bust A Groove....which is completely the video game version of these dance offs!
 
*shrug*

This is the furthest thing from what I'm familiar with and from the couple of examples posted in the first page I think it's kinda cool.

It may not be your scene, but I don't see how some of you guys can't even appreciate some of the physicality at work in some of these videos.
 
I am now a fan of Princess Madoki (the woman killing it in those gifs on this page.)

WAACKEISHA (CAN) vs PRINCESS MADOKI (FRA) Whacking Finals I STREETSTAR 2013 (Source of gifs)
PRINCESS MADOKI (FRA) vs YOSHIE (JPN) Waacking Semifinal I STREETSTAR 2013

Rather impressive that there's dancers from all kinds of countries in this tournament.
The first one was posted in one of the previous pages, but man, people were just not buying what Yoshie was selling. I thought she was really good.
 
The first one was posted in one of the previous pages, but man, people were just not buying what Yoshie was selling. I thought she was really good.

Yoshie's a great dancer and has great personality, but she lost for the same reason Princess Madoki would lose the Final against Waackeisha: Great dancer, but she just wasn't doing a whole lot of actual whacking.
 
I kind of find it shocking that people have not been exposed to this awesome stuff.

I clearly have had way too much internet in my life.
 
It's so weird and funny but it's like I gotta see more because that looked like a legit even with hype and everything.
 
Really enjoyed the video in the second post.

Watching the subsequent videos now. Add this to the pile of good weird shit.
 
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