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The Notorious Kiki Ball

anybody walking?

Tanzplattform Rhein-Main 2016 - 2025
Tanzplattform Rhein-Main 2016 - 2025

The Notorious Kiki Ball

anybody walking?

with mit Magia Marciano, Mandhla Laveaux, Zion Bodega, Roberto Angels, Murmaid Asiah, Juicy Couture, Panama and many more

The Frankfurt ballroom community “anybody walking?!” and the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main invite you to the great hall of the Mousonturm to celebrate voguing, ballroom culture and music as a self-empowerment of queer, non-binary and trans* people of colour. We begin late in the morning on the rehearsal stages with workshops for the community, then offer space in the foyer and on the terrace to sit, eat, drink and chat, before moving on to the Kiki Ball, the dance highlight of the ballroom scene, after a talk with invited guests. Participating artists from the region and international stars compete in 11 categories for beginners and advanced participants:

Beginners Performance
Beginners Runway
Face
Realness
Fashionkiller
Sex Siren
Body
Hands vs. Arms
Runway
Performance
Com vs. Com

Judges: Roberto Angels, Zion Bodega, Asiah Juicy Couture, Mandhla Laveaux, agia Marciano, DJ: Ceekay Juicy Couture, MC (Moderation): Ocean Louboutin

In addition to the ticketing, participants who want to run with us should also register via panama@anybodywalking.net

Infos

Free entry for trans* members of the Ballroom Community: Please register by 15 May via panama@anybodywalking.de.

4.30 pm: Panel Talk with Mandhla, Murmaid Asiah, Magia and Panama (moderated by Sām Sabor).
After-show party with GG VYBE

Sponsors and Supporters

Overall European Mother Zion Bodega
German Mother Mandhla Laveaux
Founding Swiss Mother Asiah Juicy Couture
German Mother Magia Marciano
Dutch Overseer Roberto Angels
International Mother Alex Juicy Couture (MC) (tbc)
Ceekay Juicy Couture (DJ)
anybody walking?!
GG Vybe

Ein Projekt im Rahmen der Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. Die Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, ein Projekt von Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm und Hessischem Staatsballett, wird ermöglicht durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain und gefördert vom Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst und der Stiftungsallianz [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich und Marie Elfriede Dotter-Stiftung, Dr. Marschner Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main].

What is Ballroom Culture

What is Ballroom Culture

Ballroom emerged in the early 1970s in Harlem, New York. Marginalised by the dominant white and heterosexual society, Black and Latinx people from the LGBTIQ+ community came together in so-called ballrooms - spaces where they could feel safe – and formed surrogate families (so-called houses), danced and performed playfully with, for and against each other.

The pop-cultural exploitation of voguing, which regularly leads to its equation with ballroom, met with criticism from the ballroom scene from the very beginning. Voguing, a dynamic dance style with posing elements, emerged in the late 80s in the Harlem ballroom community and gained greater popularity in the 90s through the award-winning documentary “Paris is Burning”.