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Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingstone
DEEP IN VOGUE
Program Duration: 3.5 hrs (Double Feature)
An exploration into the evolution of ‘Vogue’ culture from queer ‘balls’ in Harlem in the ‘80’s to Madonna’s Blonde Ambition Tour.
Paris is Burning (USA, 76 mins, 1990)
Jennie Livingstone
A poignant documentary revealing the community of New York's minority drag queens, gay black and Latino men who cross dress as women and invent the dance style of ‘vogueing’, imitating the fashion poses on the covers of the magazine Vogue. Both an embracing and a refutation of the world of high fashion, the balls become the social focus of this underclass, underground society of outcasts defiantly refusing to be ignored by a world that scorns them.
Winner Best Documentary - Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize 1991
In Bed with Madonna (USA, 120 mins, 1991)
Alex Keshishian
Madonna’s Blond Ambition World Tour brings together a team of collaborators including choreographer Vincent Patterson and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. This tour also features some of the dancers from Paris Is Burning. The dance routines show the influence of the vogue dancing style and feature Madonna’s award winning song Vogue.
‘Elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza….the best tour of 1990’ Rolling Stone Magazine.
‘The truth is I rarely have sex on tour’. Madonna
Premiered Cannes Film Festival 1991
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