The HYBRIDA research group organises the meeting on 10 and 11 November. HYBRIDA is organising a series of talks and workshops on voguing that will take place at the La Nau Cultural Centre and the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
Our body and our gestures make us legible to others. They bind us to a gender, a race, even a social class. We create our identities through the repetition of identical gestures, organising ourselves into social structures that reject all identities that do not conform to the norm. That is why it is important to vindicate dissident gestures, poses that question the normative, because they allow us to create spaces where it is possible to imagine other bodies and other realities.
Ballroom culture emerges in one of these contexts of social-political and identity vindication of racialised queer minorities. New York in the 1980s, in the midst of the crisis caused by the AIDS pandemic, was the birthplace of the ballroom scene, although its roots go back much further, as there are documented records of large-scale dances and drag competitions held in New York’s Harlem in the 1920s.
Vogue is a form of urban, proud and queer dance that has its origins in those Harlem dances with drag and transgender parades. It is the dance of the ballroom culture, in which spectacular dance battles are staged between black and Latina queens. With elaborate aesthetic rules, ballrooms remain a place where the presence of dissident bodies is articulated, a safe space for the LGTBIQ+ community, and voguing is their particular form of expression.
The programme presented to the university community, especially to the younger students, by the GIUV2013-144 research group: HYBRIDA (Cultural Hybridisations and Migrant Identities), is part of the winning project in the Diversitats (Diversity Equality Initiative) ideas competition, and consists of two conferences on Ballroom Culture, its history and political value, the visual analysis of some balls and a voguing workshop. It features the special participation of Lasseindra Ninja, an emblematic figure of voguing in France, who will be accompanied by Snake Ninja. It also has the special collaboration of Galaxia Garçon and Riri Garçon, who are active in Spain.
Organising committee
General Manager /Domingo Pujante González / Universitat de València
Artistic Director /José Luis Iniesta Ferrándiz / Universitat de València
Collaborator /Lara Vallés Peco / Universitat de València
Registration
Free but compulsory. To apply for a certificate of participation (10 h), send an email to hybrida-vogue@uv.es.
Programme
10 November 2021 / Aula Magna / La Nau Cultural Centre
11:00 LASSEINDRA NINJA /
La scène ballroom et le voguing: ce moyen vers l’acceptation de son identité et de résilience /
The ballroom scene and voguing: a path towards acceptance of identity and resilience /
Simultaneous translation from French.*
* Lasseindra Ninja’s conference is funded by the Department of French and Italian of the Universitat de València.
10 November 2021 / Sala Blava / Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences
16:30 VOGUING WORKSHOP**
Directed by: LASSEINDRA NINJA In collaboration with: SNAKE NINJA & RIRI GARÇON
Musical assistant: GALAXIA GARÇON
** The voguing workshop is funded by Diversitats of the Universitat de València.
11 November 2021 / Aula Magna / La Nau Cultural Centre
11:00 GALAXIA GARÇON /
Ballroom: Fight, Expression and Resistance**
** The Galaxia Garçon conference is funded by Diversitats of the Universitat de València.
