“People feel like they have to wait for something to come their way before they create,” he said. Much like Project Convergence itself, the new repertoire will explore how “there’s no one definition of what it means to be multicultural”, but “you can still do it without losing part of your identity”. And then for me, my big thing is writing and documenting, and making sure those stories don’t get lost.”īut instead of retreating into his Ivy League engineering degree, he’s pushing full steam ahead with a three-act show, overcoming audio-video sync issues to casually set choreography for willing dancers over Zoom and Google Meet. “It’s music, it’s dance, it’s fashion, it’s all this stuff. “I feel like there’s always been sort of multiple parts to my dance practice, just because ballroom is multiple things,” Baloue said. And major events like the Latex Ball – founded decades ago to raise awareness about the HIV/Aids crisis – have been derailed by a modern-day public health emergency, an irony that’s inspiring Baloue’s academic work. Familial dinners, where “we all convene, we check in with each other, we pump the beat, we vogue down, we feel it”, can’t happen right now. “If anything, I feel like now is kind of the most disappointing time because it’s pride month, and this is usually when everything is happening,” Baloue said.īallroom, dominated by talented black and Latino LBGTQ+ performers, is “all about community”, he said. Baloue commuted between Connecticut and New York City for two months to produce Legendary on the last day of filming in March, that booming, warm audience was no longer there as the pandemic took hold of the east coast.
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