Discover how ballroom culture travelled from Harlem to Cape Town, shaping a vibrant queer scene rooted in resistance and creativity.

Cupertino’s Rick Greene was 19 years old and taking a short vacation after his first voyage with the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II when he decided to enroll in ballroom dancing lessons. He ...

Most recently brought somewhat mainstream by the FX series Pose, the Ballroom scene is an underground LGBTQIA+ subculture that arose in 1920s NYC, arguably reaching its zenith in the '80s. Home to ...

As the road to the Renaissance World Tour begins, Beyoncé’s inspiration from an underground scene called ballroom are effervescent in Charlotte. And with TV shows in recent years like “Legendary” on ...

Kirk Pressley, who made a name for himself in the ballroom scene as a commentator before going viral on social media and being featured in a Super Bowl ad for Rihanna, has died. The House of ...

Although ballroom culture emerged primarily in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, its influence has since spread globally. The seminal 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning was the first to ...