#vogue
66 words tagged “vogue”
The top trophy at a ball, and the opening procession where the houses make their entrance.
To compete in a ballroom category for trophies, prizes and status.
A ball performer embodying tough, hip-hop-inflected street swagger.
Delivering beauty and confidence through pure facial performance.
Ballroom term for a gay or bisexual cis man — the scene's largest gender population.
An elaborate staged ballroom performance with full costume, props and a crew.
The vogue element where you work the floor itself, rolling, arching and posing to ooze sensuality.
Intense, fearless, confident style — a ballroom term of approval.
The fast, stunt-heavy, theatrical mode of voguing, all speed, tricks and big drops.
To bring full energy, attitude and presentation, no half measures.
A 1970s disco-club dance built on fast, dramatic arm throws, born in LGBTQ nightlife and folded into vogue.
Artful, indirect contempt — an insult you don't even have to say out loud.
The stylised ballroom dance of sharp, model-like poses born in Harlem.
Getting cut from a category by the judges, eliminated, sent home.
The vogue element where you whip a 360 spin and drop straight into a back-landing dip on the musical accent.
The ballroom surname for a walker with no house — a free agent.
Mature content — open to view.
To read someone so thoroughly they're left in ruins.
The vogue element where you tell a whole story through your hands and arms.
Mature content — open to view.
The co-leader of a ballroom house, ranking alongside the mother.
To enter and compete in a specific category at a ball.
A ballroom category judged on overt sensual seduction in performance.
Voguing done wrong — fake vogue with no training or ballroom grounding.
The original name for voguing, back when it was all about popping the arms, dropping into dips and spinning between them.
Ballroom umbrella for anyone presenting as a woman in a category.
Two voguers going head-to-head in a direct duel.
Perfect scores from every judge, the green light to advance to the next round.
Pre-1990 vogue style of clean lines, symmetry and precision, inspired by hieroglyphs and fashion poses.
The mainstream/Drag Race name for the dip, a backward stunt-fall to the floor; ballroom calls it a misnomer.
The Harlem ballroom dance of sharp poses, model lines and dramatic hand work.
A perfect score — a 10 from every judge, no debate, you advance.
Vogue's exaggerated feminine strut — crossing legs, swinging hips, hands thrown in opposition.
Precise, fluid arm and hand work — the judged technical element of voguing.
Beyond impressive, flawless, on the level of cunty or sickening.
The vogue move where you squat low on your heels and kick your feet out as you travel forward on the beat.
The members of a house, who take its name and walk under its banner.
Proving yourself in ballroom by scoring a perfect ten across the board.
Ball category judging how convincingly you serve tough, street, masculine presentation.
Mid-90s vogue style of extreme, exaggerated feminine fluidity.
The delicate, ultra-feminine, graceful approach to vogue, the soft counterpart to dramatics.
A vogue category for performers with a year or less of experience.
The dramatic backward drop to the floor on the beat — the real ballroom name, not 'death drop'.
A chosen-family crew in ballroom culture, led by a mother and/or father, that competes together at balls.
The emcee's call announcing the theme contestants must serve before they walk.
Ballroom umbrella for anyone presenting as a man in a category.
Junior LaBeija's legendary Paris Is Burning ballroom chant — spelled out, O-P-U-L-E-N-C-E.
A specific judged competition theme at a ball — Face, Body, Realness, Vogue and more.
The younger members of a ballroom house — the offspring of its mother and father.
Ballroom category judged purely on your physique — shape, proportions, the skin you're serving.
The five core components of Vogue Femme: hands, catwalk, duckwalk, spins & dips, and floor performance.
The multiracial ballroom house founded in 1982 by Willi Ninja, the Godfather of Vogue.
To compete at a ball by entering and performing a category.
A ballroom category judged purely on facial beauty and bone structure.
The top tier of ballroom prestige — above legendary, for those who shaped the scene.
Post-1990 vogue style of rigid clicks, contortion, flexibility and precise arms control.
A ball category judged on convincingly passing as a tough street figure.
Older insider name for the dramatic spin-into-dip drop, actually an onomatopoeic crowd cue, not the move's real name.
Ballroom status earned after roughly a decade of winning category trophies.
A casual, community-first ball with lighter stakes, often where newcomers learn.
Performing with your face — full beauty and expression — as the whole point.
To utterly outdo or demolish a rival in a battle or category.
The vogue element of working the floor — rolling, arching, posing low.
A veiled, contemptuous insult — disrespect you barely have to spell out.
Ballroom category demanding a look so strange and alien you stop reading as human.
A competitive face-off between two performers showing off skill and style.