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[The Guardian] Shanghai’s ‘voguing’ dancers step lightly to avoid official gaze – in pictures

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Shanghai’s ‘voguing’ dancers step lightly to avoid official gaze – in pictures

Voguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated by brief pauses. Popularised in 1990 by a hit Madonna song and the documentary Paris is Burning, the trend has drawn adherents in China too, with Shanghai’s first such event organised five years ago

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