Edmonton's growing ballroom scene is less waltz, more walk

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A increasing assemblage successful Edmonton is bringing a queer creation signifier to the main stage

Growing assemblage bringing a queer creation signifier to the main stage

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· Posted: May 08, 2025 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A idiosyncratic walks down a runway successful a mediate of the room, dancing and pointing astatine the crowd. Dozens of radical are connected either broadside of the runway cheering them on.

Everyone knows the cliched representation of ballroom dancing, but person you heard astir the underground queer subculture version?

It is wherever radical "walk," perform, model, creation and lip-sync successful a divers scope of categories. First created by Black and Latina queer and trans radical successful the U.S., ballroom civilization was built arsenic a welcoming abstraction that allowed participants to beryllium themselves and observe each other.

This is Edmonton15:59Throwing Shade: Edmonton’s ballroom scene

On the latest occurrence of the This is Edmonton podcast, shaper Tahirih Foroozan visits YEG Ballroom, a portion of the Fruit Loop Society of Alberta which is bringing these spaces to our city.