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More YouTube ballroom footage of the legendary ballroom ladies of the late 80's and 90's compiled by Eve Harlowe.



 

In my Paris Dupree post I briefly touched upon the Paris Is Burning ball from which the documentary movie took its name.   The scenes in the documentary are from the 1987 ball.   While searching for video of Paris Dupree to add to the post ran across some classic video of the 1991 ball uploaded to YouTube..



I'm posting the femme queen face, high fashion, and femme queen luscious body categories.   The femme queen designation are the categories that transwomen compete in the ballroom scene. 



There's also femme queen realness, runway and voguing in addition to the other special ones that make up a ball competition.  



I like posting the video from the late 80's and early 90's because you see not only the legendary girls, but you'll note how laser focused they were for the most part of projecting a classy, feminine image.

Paris Dupree, whose ball provided the name for the iconic 1990 Jennie Livingston documentary about the Harlem ballroom scene and was one of the memorable people in Paris Is Burning has reportedly passed away.    Dupree was founder of the House of Dupree in the 1970's and was one of the last Big Five founding house mothers who appeared in the documentary still alive.  Angie Xtravaganza, Dorian Corey, Avis Pendavis and Pepper LaBeijia preceded Dupree in death.

A memorial service for the ballroom icon according to Next Magazine was held August 20 at Pearl Studios.
 




I'll keep looking for the obituary to see if I can find out the cause of death, and will update when I do so.



H/T Next Magazine