VCU: Beyond the Fab and the Fun, the Ballroom Scene Has Deep Meaning With Deep Roots
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
RICHMOND, Virginia, June 18 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news:
By Sian Wilkerson
For more than a century, ballroom - the scene, not the dance - has made a mark in American culture.
Today, if you throw "shade" at a rival or get the "tea" on last night's party, you're speaking the language of ballroom. If you grooved to Madonna's "Vogue" in 1990, you were in ballroom's pull. And a half-century before t . . .
By Sian Wilkerson
For more than a century, ballroom - the scene, not the dance - has made a mark in American culture.
Today, if you throw "shade" at a rival or get the "tea" on last night's party, you're speaking the language of ballroom. If you grooved to Madonna's "Vogue" in 1990, you were in ballroom's pull. And a half-century before t . . .