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The Ballroom scene (also known as the Ballroom community, Ballroom culture, or just Ballroom) is an African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture. Its origins can be found in drag balls of the mid-19th century United States , such as those hosted by William Dorsey Swann , a formerly enslaved Black man in Washington D.C. .
Kevin Jz Prodigy is a Ballroom commentator, [1] music producer and singer from Philadelphia. [2] In 1997, he discovered the Ballroom scene when friends took him to a club. He then learned how to vogue and joined the House of Movado. He started making music and commentating at balls in the early 2000s. [3]
Kevin Burrus, also known as Kevin UltraOmni (born 1958) is an American mentor, speaker, LGBTQ activist, and film producer who founded the ball culture House of Omni in 1979–which was renamed the House of UltraOmni in 1990–and has chapters across the country.
Pose, which is coming to end with its excellent third and final season, goes on an emotional roller coaster that’s not only full of tears, but also offers plenty of laughs that’s become ...
House of Xtravaganza was one of three houses that dominated the scene. "A ball usually starts typically around 10:30 [p.m]. at night — usually everybody gets there by 12:30, 1 [a.m.]" House ...
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Jack Mizrahi as himself, a ballroom emcee and member of the Masters of Ceremony Council; Leiomy Maldonado as Florida Ferocity, a member of the House of Ferocity; Sol Williams (a/k/a Grandfather Sol Pen'davis) as a member of the judges panel. Sol also was in the documentary movie Paris Is Burning (1990), upon which the series is largely based.
Label from 12″ single of 'Love the Life You Live' by Danny Xtravaganza; produced by Freddy Bastone for NuGroove records, 1990. Danni Xtravaganza (July 14, 1961 – January 9, 1996) (sometimes spelled Danny and/or Extravaganza) was a founding member of the House of Xtravaganza (est. 1982), [1] the first primarily Latino house in the underground Harlem ball culture.