No Vogueing in the Halls!- Page 2

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:30pm

Paris Is Burning is on LOGO right now.

Updated On: 3/1/06 at 08:30 PM

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:40pm

omg Jerby I'm going to laugh about that forever.

[Marlene]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:53pm

PDA, totally illegal in my school, they walk around and give you demerits. I love how I had to convince the security agents that my random hand holding and gallivanting down the halls in strange motions one afternoon was not a display of lesbianism on my part. If vogueing were illegal I just about die.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:17pm

I missed it again on logo because of work. I'm sure they'll air it again.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:57pm

I saw Paris is Burning in a gay pub in Warsaw, but I could barely understand what those people were saying, and I'm a native speaker. Some people fell asleep...

Very interesting doco though.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:03pm

One of the godmothers of voguing was Emma, Lady Hamilton:

Emma Hamilton, (1765-1815), the second wife of the British ambassador to Naples, Lord William Hamilton, and the mistress of the Naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson, was famous for her striking beauty, her romantic conquests and her unforgettable performances that have gone down in history as "Lady Hamilton"s Attitudes". Her attitudes were based upon figures from antique Vases and wall paintings, baroque paintings and literature.

Lady Hamilton"s performances were social events. Lord Hamilton"s villa in Naples was a meeting point for the aristocracy and intellectuals of Europe. Scholars, Artists, writers, Musicians viewed Emma Hamilton"s attitudes as the concluding highpoint of their "grand tour, ending with a visit to Pompeii and the smoldering Vesuvius. In front of such illustrious flocks of visitors, the Lady of the house magically transformed from one motive to the next - as the Madonna consumed in quiet contemplation, to a moment later, when she was an ecstatically dancing Bacchante, then Diana at the hunt or the stern Venus. The perfection and speed of the transitions from image to image were reported with particular enthusiasm.

Emma inspired the perfomance artist to create her own version of Lady Hamilton's Attitudes in 2004.
Atta-Atta-Atta-Attitudes