Vogue Classique

[trannythebody]

the old way has more fever



[lustyoungboy]

Vogueing came along way now we are on t.v for atleast I am

[Njoofene]

Classic. Pure and simple

[qbvseven]

DAMN !!! I miss NYC

[Novadcstar]

You betta wooooooooork!!

[NYCEDWIN2009]

Ovah the voguers in this vogue that are no longer here are the reason i vogue its not get life its an art form love this video 

[22v68]

Great clips of old way voguing - love it

[TheBeverly7]

Who ever that was at 2:35 was fierce!

[TheBeverly7]

This is fabulous

[CelsoCelso88]

...now this...this is Vogueing....

[givingtothekidds]

I live for whoever that was @ 2:22-3:21 he gave me everything, although I'm not a big fan of OSV! But does anyone know who that man was?

[marie1w]

Old School all day

[RetrOKiiD22]

This is back when STYLE, PRECISION, GRACE, POP, DIP, SPIN, WERE THE ONLY ELEMENTS.!!

[RetrOKiiD22]

ALRIGHT.!! The girls at 2:00 WERE DOING IT.!!

[houseofori]

love love love

[MrLouieLove]

MANY OF THE VIDEOS WERE TAKEN AT THE TUNNELS AT THE LEGENDARY LOVE BALL...WHEN WE WOULD HEAR LOVE BREAK I REMEMBER THE CHILDREN REPLACING THE WORD BREAK WITH BALL AND VOUGE UP AND DOWN THE STREETS AND SUBWAY ESCALATORS SHOUTIN THE LOVE BALL THE LOVE BALL...ETC ETC......I WAS BY THE STAGE AS FATHER OF HOUSE OF MONTEIJA...WITH THE MOTHER BACK THEN....WOW....THIS WAS THE YEAR 1989..LEARN IT!! AND LEARN IT WELL!!

[nes11727]

@MrLouieLove 1989 was my year I used to go clubbin at "The tunnel" wit my sister,drag queens used to try to out dance me on the floor...I wish someone would have filmed me dancing,one time I was given a letter to dance on stage but I was too afraid....

[MrLouieLove]

MANY OF THE VIDEOS WERE TAKEN AT THE TUNNELS AT THE LEGENDARY LOVE BALL...WHEN WE WOULD HEAR LOVE BREAK I REMEMBER THE CHILDREN REPLACING THE WORD BREAK WITH BALL AND VOUGE UP AND DOWN THE STREETS AND SUBWAY ESCALATORS SHOUTIN THE LOVE BALL THE LOVE BALL...ETC ETC......I WAS BY THE STAGE AS FATHER OF HOUSE OF MONTEIJA...WITH THE MOTHER BACK THEN....WOW....THIS WAS THE YEAR 1989..LEARN IT!! AND LEARN IT WELL!! HBSOALLWE'D REPLACE THE

[marie1w]

THE MOST FIERCE VOGUE VIDEO EVER

[STLHouseLegend]

This is the style that I learned when I first hit the clubs (way b4 I joined a house), when there wasn't a mini-ball every week and you had to go to the clubs to battle and get R-E-S-P-E-C-T baby; when there was a tight little circle w/very little space and you STILL had to make it happen...especially like the kids @4:59-5:08! Shouts out to Sound Factory, Tracks DC & Generator (Chicago) for those battles, honey--you didn't want it! The girlz today would GAG--they don't have the discipline.

[PanamaOmar]

@STLHouseLegend So very, very, very true!

[COCOALUV4LIFE]

beautiful 8^)

[vogue1993]

ols skool hands performance is untouchable

[marie1w]

THANX WHOEVER MADE THIS ..CAUSE THIS IS THE GREATEST VOGUE VIDEO OUT..THIS MADE ME START VOGUEING.

[Genevaave]

the young kids dont bring it like this

[desir82002]

@Genevaave NO they do not...It is very sad....

[ebangha]

VOGUE~~~! *o*  i like old school better

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

The girl at 3:11 to 3:40 is AMAZING!

[MissKenyatta01]

This shit got to be off VCR lol

[cjm38]

who was the long haired female or male on the Donahue show back in the day? The one that lifted her leg up like that. She is sickning!

[sunsetbaden]

Amazing!!!

[Hashwas]

Love and respect to all the artists in this video, so much talent and passion.... love it

[billybeyond]

fuck Madonna. she's hack. she stole everything and VOGUE she stole FROM US! Don't defend her! how dare you! Vogueing is an art form and in no way was validated by M Ciccone. UGH - she's a tacky, unhappy mess.TRUST

[gefnanroolz]

This is astonishing. I've loved the Vogueing style all my life, but i've never been any good! I can't get enough of this!

[urbanmasterpiece]

Thank you for posting this. It is very inspiring to watch. R.I.P. To All the Legends that shared their great talent with the world and HOPE for the up and coming generations.

[cjm38]

who is that at 3:15 with all the hair and in army clothes?

[jesusciccone]

great video and remix

[freshfacehooker]

oh shiz...that gave me chills! NEW YORK!!

[ImOverIt1989]

I agree!

[tarrantella66]

Ya, Madonna performed at the Garage, but she got booed actually...

[allandy4u]

she got booed when she first started or she performed vogue there?

[djJackMF]

The Garage closed 13 years before she released Vogue.

[allandy4u]

oh you mean when she was trying to make it...wow. that's really inspiring hahah. :)

[rip10199]

no it did not! the garage closed in 87 or 88 at the latest and vogue came out around 89 or 90! i was around for both events and I'm not old enough for Alzheimer's yet!

[djJackMF]

OOPS! LOL!!! I meant to say 3 years. It was actually Fall of 1987... guess I DO have Alzheimer's... but I'll NEVER forget that last weekend they were open.

[rip10199]

i missed the last weekend :( and learned my lesson! so i made sure i was around for the closing for factory and and just about every other club after that . still trying to decide if that is a good or bad thing...i may look like hell but i'm still alive at any rate, good memories!!!

[djJackMF]

LOL - I was just saying last week that I seem to find myself at every closing. Ironically I was often turned away from Sound Factory for having the wrong "elements" in my company.

[FatherPrincess]

the Garage closed in 1986

[FocusMix]

Just for kicks, lemme see if I can run off the make-up of this song:

Intro: not sure

Salsoul Orchestra: "Love Break"

MFSB: "Love Is The Message"

Raw Silk: "Do it to the music"

Madonna: "Vogue"

Ecstasy, Passion, & Pain: "Touch & Go"

Fast Eddie: "The DJ"

@virginQ: you are so right, Madonna has always been an underground type of chick (hell, she performed "Lucky Star" at Paradise Garage!). How many current pop icons can say that?

[djJackMF]

Pretty good...

Intro is Pointer Sisters - Happiness... B side of the 12" for Fire.

I think the only reference to MFSB is the sample in Love Break, (or Dub Break in this case)... Love is the Message is not used raw on here at all.

[FocusMix]

Oh! Pointer Sisters...cool - thanks - yeah, i noticed they only ran a 1bar loop from MFSB and the rest is the rest, lolol....love Junior. He did work as Ellis D (was he an Extravaganza? Or did he just see that house?).

I like how these houses created viable markets for themselves. It's no longer about unattainable dreams. A lot of the factors that went into the ballroom experience back then either aren't there or have changed dramatically.

[Shadyme00]

The intro is the Clark Sisters Happiness

[djJackMF]

Is that an inside joke?

[sexytrannienj]

its dub break

 yessssssssssssssssssssssss

[creatvthinkr1]

MAY 18TH, 2009, R.I.P. OCTAVIA ST. LAURENT! You are among the real stars now... WALK THAT RUNWAY!

[stacynewyork]

whoa!! I didnt know she passed.

[kaleba]

what exactly do u know? NOTHING because youre the biggest looser on YouTube..im working on the video now..you deserve it

[stacynewyork]

Really? wow!! Im so touched that you took the time to google my s/n and respond to all vids that I commented on goin back 3years and also that you are gonna make a vid about me. A person you dont know and will never meet!!!! That makes you the biggest jackass in cyberspace! Stupid nigger! Shame that you are Black and in your 40's and dont have nothing else to do with you time other than stalking me, a 19yo female that is not interested in you.

[FocusMix]

oh, snap - I ain't know she died! That bitch was tuna if there ever was any. Legend. Icon.

[djJackMF]

Dere gooo Octavia...

[Furrydandy]

its time for a revival

[MikeyAviance]

whatever happen to amy extrodinare

[djJackMF]

You didn't mean Amy Extravaganza did you?

[dabx1]

@djJackMF Amy Xtravaganza ( correct spelling) Leave out the E at the beginning

[djJackMF]

@dabx1 UGH! That's the second time I did that. I'm getting old.

[djJackMF]

@dabx1 ...AND what's worse, not only have I been friends of Xtravas for over 20 years - but I just noticed I've been vogueing longer than you've been alive...

[jordyjordance]

anyone know the name of this song?

[djJackMF]

Combo of Pointer Sisters, Madonna, and Junior Vasquez, (and MFSB if you want to get technical)....

[virginQ]

please don't diss Madonna, she always brings validity to true art, never claims shes the one who started or invented anything, she just really digs great art when she hears it or sees it, and Vogueing in the mid to late 80's was some awesome art/dance...Willi came down to Texas in 89, he was fuckin fierce!!!!!

so please support one another in your talents and gifts, peace!

[desir82002]

Can I can an AMEN for the OLD days...

[Furrydandy]

A M E N !

[shacree1]

back in the days where thing's are old grease is the word you've been told

[shacree1]

we'll how about that...don't you think it's time for us old girl's from the 90's era to do battle once again...TALKING ABOUT THOSE VOGUE FEMS

[speedway2004]

Haha I bet the word 'Madonna' is outlawed here..

[bokan800]

Willi the Master!

[SnehanBorn]

That's my mother, Matinga battling Stiffy at 5:00 and again at 6:00.

(Goonie Power)

where are all my House of Goonies children now?

RIP those that have gone on....

[2721101669]

They did not eva want Matinga!!!....

[SnehanBorn]

OK!

[2721101669]

Or Derek Mugler AKA "Lemonhead"....

[tls421]

How's this "Lemonhead" nowadays?.. I'm wondering if its the same guy I know of here in Baltimore...

[PanamaOmar]

@2721101669 Yesssssss, I remember watching (in awe, mind you) at Matinga eating it alive in Vogue Alley a.k.a. the back corner by the stage in The Sound Factory. She NEVER missed a beat. These young 'uns need to learn it & learn it well.

[rip10199]

@PanamaOmar right their with ya!!! Matinga and the Goonies were my Favs! hes still around, a lot of them are just dont go out like that anymore!

[bnheab4]

lmao whatever!! yall LECHERS are always behind us trying to capitalize off of what WE create and innovate.....when you all create something entirely on your own and that hasnt already been done by US...then brag, until then work on getting that green card...adios!!

[dabx1]

Ok, im Latino. We Vogue great. BUT! The African-American community started Voguing...Before it was even called Voguing! we ( Latinos) then came into the game with our own style too. We are all apart of Voguing history, don't try to divide.

[funkyjoao]

junior vasquez produced it

but under the moniker "Ellis D"

the track is called Dub Break

[universuale]

The intro is from the Pointer Sisters,

Happiness"....Vogue- on darlings!!!

[gefnanroolz]

Hi- I'm British, and I've been fascinated by the Vogue scene for ages now. I was wondering if you knew the title for the tune being played on this clip. It's hot! Thanks.

[putito]

thIS is made from a time when vogueing was about body alignment, ur body spoke made staTements. not the dramatics the kids have now. and in those days the ones you see were doiNG it up. reppin all over. fact THAT "u doNT ever want it"NO U DONT WANT IT. IT WAS RUFF BEING GAY AND OUT. U YOUNG ONES HAVE IT VERY EASY COMPARED THEN. its not new wave babies its classic. thE root of IT all. we paved the way for the young ones to carry on and be who and what they want to be. RESPECT!

[sykick64]

LOOK (at the video) & LEARN (FROM THIS MAN putito).. if u were there - wasn't it brilliant.. i'm 44 not 14 i was there.. klub kidz rokked an still du.. If u were gay in zoo YorKe bak then.. was tuff.. if u were black and gay.. u were a fierce ruling diva.. period.. coz u needed sum seriously titanium coated balls to pull that 1 off..

kidz.. today NYC thankz 2 RG is clean pleasant and simply a taste of the..

MILE HIGH LIFE..

GO FIGURE GO VIST

JUST GO

Peace T Out...

pto/...

[alexanderdiaz1]

@putito Baby, you said a mouthful of the TRUTH....As we use to say back in the day Pop, Dip and Spin Bitches, right into a Kansai dip...Now, that was the real T in the classic and legendary voguing of an era gone by...An art form of body expression through a flow of movements, pausing only for a dramatic moment in time befitting the greatest and legendary cameramen of the day, before commencing the flow again...Even Madonna got it right in her Vogue video, thanks to the two legends in it....

[markmonaldi]

YES!!! You guys rock!

[Joeup583]

love seeing legendary Jose and Luis Xtravaganza, Jose Revlon, and Matinga.

[Yan68]

TECKTONIK = VOGUE!!!

[Only1Omega]

thats what I was saying 271101669 but someone was saying that Jose Revlon wasn't but I'm glad you did mention it aswell so I'm not the only one that knows this. Much Respect!!!

[2721101669]

Jose Revlon not Legendary??? How dare you?? That is Legendary at it's finest!!! He still don't eva want Jose Xtrava or Derek Mugler!!! Adrian's sister's name is Eileen.. get in 2 it... U have 2 give credit 2 Anthony Revlon AKA "Matinga" 2... u young kids don't really hace a clue what real Legends r

[datzwazzup]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS for miss Matinga!!!!!!!!!! That bitch used to SLAY miss Stiffy Revlon ALL the time!

[Only1Omega]

I wasn't talking about Luis in the Daisy Dukes, I know thats Luis xtrava and Jose Xtrava but if you also look Jose Revlon is there aswell, he is the one with the pony tail. And he is not legendary then but he is now. No where in my comment did I mention that he was at the time....

[2721101669]

Legends at it's finest... but they should have had Derek Mugler AKA "Lemonhead" in there 2... no they don't eva want "Lemon"!!!

[XCLUSIVEBKPAPI]

XTRAVAGANZA POWER!!!!!2008

[koolzainski]

"Ooh I love it (Love Break)"

by Vince Montana (of Salsoul Orchestra)?

[renskione]

the essence.

so fierce.

[kroybdn]

POWERFUL, AS IT IS AWESOME

[ILdolceSuono]

the epitome of extravagant class.

[transgendajorge]

so sexy

[Valmizaum]

Muinto DOIDO!!!

so q parece q ta meio afeminado =/

[ShThN]

É Vogue!

[julination]

voce e pa-te-ti-co...besides can't you speak english?

[fairyboy3]

portugues is a castilian concecuence!

[mcrubio]

Very Masculine lol

[bedstuy65]

It's a must have for the children that read the Queen's English! :)

[bedstuy65]

the track is "Dub Break" by Ellis D (aka Junior Vasquez)

Rather difficult to find.

[KillerSmileNJ]

I Have It!!!!!!!!

[fylaxx]

Are you retarded? There's gotta be something better you can waste your time on...

[aharper12]

I am so sad he passed away. A true legend has left us

[Only1Omega]

My bad that was Willi Ninja

[schnikta]

laganda, the song is called "dub break" from 1993 or 4.

[funkyjoao]

who is the track by tho?

[Laganda143]

Can someone please tell me the name of the music in this video.. I remember very well back in the day but don't know the name .. I had alot of friends that knew Willie but i never got to meet him .. Thanks in advance..

[Only1Omega]

Just wanted to pay my respects to Willi Ninja, great friend and over voguer, ofcourse Jose & Luis Xtravaganza brought it to the floor, And lets not forget Jose Revlon, werk those arms bitch....

[Goatyeah]

THAT is not JOSE Revlon in that video.. That is Luis Xtrava, Jose Revlon is NOT legendary. And why dont you kids give credit to Aldawna Xtrava as well, He Beat Jose @ the Love Ball, He is right there along Willie, Adrain and his sister voguing for Malcom McClaren.. They were the first ones

[demarcos69]

awww it all takes me back///i just wish the footage was clearer///those were the days

[jamesbx]

I used to go to the balls at the Elks on 138th back in the day. This is where I learned from the Masters. It used to be so fun to be in a boring club and get a few people voguing and bringing the house down. It brings tears to my eyes to know that most from PIB are now gone.

[Goatyeah]

Your so very right ... there aare very very few of Us old kids left..

[ausdraft]

very sad news. Most of the people in P.I.B. are gone. Willi Ninja was the bright spot of the movie. He actually fulfilled his dream. He went from working in a health food store to performing on stage, film, and television.

[carberyroe]

its sad to find out he has died of aids he was a huge insperation to so many people!

[Shadyme00]

Who ever has them can you please make pay homage to Willi Ninja with clips of him vouging. This brilliantly made clip is a tearful in its self. I remember my first introduction to the whole "gay world" was watching Paris is burning and watching Willi vouge. It was mainly Willi Ninja and Jose Extravaganza that inspired me to want to learn how to vouge and still do.

[Shadyme00]

Wil;l; thank you so much for you bal;l; room excellence you will be missed and loved dearly thank god for video recordings because you have been immortalized. My condolances to all who have been affected by his death. I just wish i had gone to see him vouge at club krash on fridays. Procastination is the enemy of life he wasnt one that was held by procastination he lived accourdingly with what he had to with his life and also what was need to live a fufilled one.

[YouBettaWerqBitch]

Don't feel bad man. YEARS ago I met Willie at dance event that showcased Black choreographers and artists and he was there. I was a teenager at the time and I was so mesmerized by his mastery. I wanted to learn old way/new way and only from him. I had the opportunity to move to NYC and didn't do it. But now, Im going to learn. Im not interested in walking balls at this point. Willie was the one who made me realize that vougue IS AN ARTFORM.

[Boodangy]

Willi Ninja, New York City drag-ball legend, star of Paris Is Burning and is featured in this video, has died after a long illness on September 2, 2006. He was 45.

[djJackMF]

Oh yeah, and BTW... OOOOOOOOUUUUUUUCHHHHHHHH!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrkkk! Take me back now! This will be my heaven. Bring it back! I live for videos like this! I love new way dramatics femme whatever... but these voguers eats them ALL!!!

[djJackMF]

I agree with dakomplexkid. Like anything divided by style/genre there is good AND bad. Trrill, I do think Vogue Femme would improve there performance if they got some old way down first though... sort of like a hip hop artist could benefit from some classical or jazz training. They would have more control and cleanness. I also agree with ausdraft, it seems like dancing was just "more" years ago.

[ausdraft]

In all honesty in those days you could find many people who did Old Way BADLY. Same thing for new way. You can find people doing it BADLY. However, in those days there were much better and more creative dancers IN GENERAL. BTW, Check out old punkin and whacking done by shabadoo.

[exelbear]

damn i am ipressed

[Diabolique804atyahoo]

I'm telling you.. MADONNA only touched the tip of the iceberg. I wonder where these churren are now.. especially that bitch with all that hair in the army fatigues

[ausdraft]

that looks like Willi Ninja in the fatigues with the long hair in the cap. He teaches supermodels how to walk now. He was on Carson Daly last year demonstrating.

[xerononce]

LOL just to correct your statement it wasn't Carson Daly it was Jimmy Kemmel. But the lil white guy he was trying to teach how to walk had me dying.

[ausdraft]

Hey, did you see how they tried to clown Ninja and he let them know he wasnt havin it? Boy has NO SHAME in his game. What was bad ass is that he was there for walking but Jimmy asked to see some hardcore vogueing. Ninja made a face when Kimmel brought up Madonna's video like THAT AINT REAL VOGUE. Thats the watered down version.

[xerononce]

Ain't that the truth, because Madonna's video didn't showcase REAL VOGUE it just showcased alot of grand poses,slide of hand but NO REAL PRECISION which is essential in Old Way Vogue.

[Only1Omega]

Diaboloque, if the one with the hair in the pony tail is the one ur talking about then his name is Jose Revlon and he is still around...

[OCTAVIOX]

I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE...JUS WISH IT WAS MUCH MORE CLEAR......MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF THE HOUSES....

OCTAVIO X

[dakomplexkid]

i love old wayt very much but ya'll shouldnt knock vogue femm....because vogue femm can be very creative if someone does it right ...yes it can get repetitive but also its fun ....and yall shouldnt knock it

[mkville]

Beautiful!! takes me back to Gotham City in the late 80's here in Toronto

[SomethingOhMy]

OMG! I've only seen one video of the old way and it's absolutely gorgeous. So much grace but still full of attitude. I love it much more than how they do it now.

[trrill]

Well I really think that Old Way and New Way come from the same place, aesthetically. That is, they both require from the performer a much greater, more objective self-concept--the ability to picture oneself from far outside. Vogue femme, as it's called now, is mostly a messy barrage of uncreative movement. Flailing one's arms and learning how to dip do not a voguer make. Unfortuately, almost all vogue femme performers rely almost exclusively on these.

[SomethingOhMy]

Yes, yes, yes. I only have superficial knowledge of voguing and though I do think Vogue Femme is cute, this is just amazing to me. The performers in the video clip look like moving works of art art. The techinicality and precision of the movements and how they are excuted with some much poise, attitude is mindblowing to me. I guess that's the point of it but damn. I'm just in awe. It has me open.

[fumamachu]

first, louis was not the father of Xtrava. And I recognized most of that footage, because that is how the MIDWEST learned how to VOGUE... watching video footage like this.

[STLHouseLegend]

@fumamachu You better tell it, fu honey...

[luxhomme90]

im a youngin and i never knew old way took so much work, and now i see why its good to learn it before new way or at least master it too

[Diabolique804atyahoo]

now that's OLD WAY for your nerves....

dayam...

[dahlio]

Willi Ninja is oOOOOVAH!

[dahlio]

This is the quentissential videos that spans over years of hard WERK and tears. Do you know how much practice-stretching-and training it takes to achieve the level of NINJA_XTRAVA and on and on? It takes yearssssss ma dear! OVAH

[meinctrl]

nice vid. now this was how it was DONE!!!!

[dahlio]

Louis(The Father Of THE HOUSE OF XTRAVAGANZA) is oOOOVAH!

[trrill]

I'd like to clarify that Luis Camacho was not the father of the House of Xtravaganza, just as Father Enigma has said below. The father of Xtrava was Hector (last name Crespo, if I'm not mistaken), who died during the AIDS crisis of the 1980's. A picture of him can be found at http://flickr.com/photos/trril­l/87729113/in/photostream .

[dabx1]

Louis the Father of The House of Xtravaganza? i hope you mean back then, cause Jose is the father now!

[fdhobson]

Luis is LA father i think...thats what Derrick told me