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OUR PEOPLE

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Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 20:00
With "Our People", Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry and Grammy Award-winning tenor Frederick Ballentine are creating a space and a song program at the Konzerthaus for the Berlin voguing community, an important subculture for Black and LGBTQ communities. Marginalized by society, queer black and Latino New Yorkers developed “voguing” in the 1970s and 80s as a dance style and a way of expressing themselves artistically as well es finding themselves. In the so-called “ballrooms”, the stage becomes not only a platform... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Vocal Music

Info & Ticket (www.konzerthaus.de)
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Musicians

Frederick BallentineTenor
Kunal LahiryIdea, Concept, Piano
German Mother Mandhla LaveauxVoguing
German Mother Gina AngelsDance
German Godmother Xena LouboutinDance
German Princess Joana Juicy-CoutureVoguing
Shayne AngelsVoguing
Zima LaveauxDance
Lucilla SchmidingerDramaturgy

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