verb
General Slang
voguing / vogue
· verb · ballroom
The stylised ballroom dance of sharp, model-like poses born in Harlem.
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A highly stylised dance built from crisp, magazine-cover poses, angular arms, and dramatic lines — like flipping through Vogue at speed. Born in the Black and Latino ballroom scene of Harlem, it's a whole competition category and an art form, with styles from Old Way to New Way to Vogue Fem. Madonna's 1990 hit 'Vogue' borrowed it for the mainstream, but the floor it came from was queer, Black and Latino long before that.
“The beat dropped and she started voguing — every pose hitting on the downbeat, the crowd losing it.”
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voguing / vogue In A Sentence
The beat dropped and she started voguing — every pose hitting on the downbeat, the crowd losing it.
Origin & Usage
Black and Latino/Latina LGBTQ ballroom scene, Harlem, 1970s–80s; named for the magazine poses it imitates. Mainstreamed by Madonna's 'Vogue' (1990) and Paris Is Burning.
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