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It’s possible no one has done more to disseminate vogue and waacking worldwide than Archie Burnett. Born in 1959 on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, then raised in Brooklyn, New York, Burnett has brought his broad smile, hearty laugh, and signature, quotable aphorisms to 37 countries, returning to many of them “six or seven times,” he says.
Kumari Suraj has spent their life finding their identity through dance. Their father is South Asian and Afro-Caribbean, and their mother is Native American and European, and the cultural dances associated with their ethnic background have played a major role in their self-discovery. As a child, Suraj made it a lifelong goal to learn as […]
“The way I describe waacking,” says performer, teacher and activist Princess Lockerooo, “is that it’s a physical personification of your absolute truth, in perfect synchronicity with the music. It’s a dance of self-discovery, self-acceptance and self-love.” These days, waacking is often categorized under the hip-hop umbrella, but it’s actually a predecessor to voguing. “It’s a […]