The four dancers Mimi brings to the stage present different categories of ballroom culture that, according to Blikk, "move in the borderland between established expressions from the fashion world's catwalks and vital exploration of the specifically queer."
The ballroom scene emerged in Harlem, New York in the late 1960s. The culture can be traced back to the drag competitions of the 1920s, where African-American and Latin American drag queens and trans women experienced discrimination. Hence, they created their own culture: ballroom.
Over the years, ballroom has evolved to encompass a number of expressions and categories. "Posing" was among the first, inspired by the fashion magazine Vogue. The category eventually evolved into the performance styles many associate with ballroom, called "voguing".
