Balls

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Family Through Fantasy: The House of Xtravaganza

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Sitting down with the legendary ball house whose father, Jose, took the Xtravaganza name to the wider world as a dancer and choreographer for Madonna, to hear tales from the house's early days, and how they still make time for each other to this day. 

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Balls, Balls, Balls

Balls

The kind you bounce. The voguing kind. The kind that get your foot in the door.

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BALLIN': The Curious Kinship of Ping-Pong and Hip Hop

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Vibe Magazine Editor-in-Chief/#PingPongPresident Datwon Thomas tells the behind-the-scenes story of how hip hop and Pong-Pong came together. 

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