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VideoStrike a pose: how New York’s vogue dancing - which Madonna helped make famous in the 1990s - is making a comeback in Asia

  • Vogue dancers in Asia tap into 20th century New York history
  • The dance style, characterised by high-energy and sharp angle movements, is making a comeback in Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong

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Let’s have a ball: Asia’s vogue dancers tap into 20th century New York history

Let’s have a ball: Asia’s vogue dancers tap into 20th century New York history
Bryan Wood

Voguing, an improvisational dance style characterised by high-energy and sharp angle movements, made its way from the US to Japan and Taiwan in the 1990s, arriving largely through classes organised as a form of cultural exchange.

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