Where: University of Regina Shu-Box Theatre, 3737 Wascana Parkway
When: Friday, October 25, 2019 - 10:00 PM following HINKYPUNK and the Talk Back Reception in the lobby.
​Ticketing: $10 to attend the ball, or FREE with HINKYPUNK ticket

Please note that all patrons of this event must be 19 years of age or older.

Celebrate Vogue and Ball culture with New Dance Horizons' first ever Kiki Ball!

Walk like a model, glam like a troll! This event is open to all. 

Before the Ball festivities begin, there will be an opening drag performance featuring three local Queens and Kings.

See below for artist, judge, and category details.

Sign Up to Compete

What is a Ball?

A ball is an event that hosts a series of competitive categories, each with their own focus. Having been birthed in NYC by communities of Queer Black and Latinx people out of a need for safe nightlife spaces due to the discrimination they faced, balls are typically centered around creating safe space for LGBTQIA2S+ POC.
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Spectators, competitors, and judges, come together to celebrate people within their communities and compete against each other in different categories. Some of the most popular categories are Vogue Performance, Sex Siren, Hands, Runway, Bazaar, and Face. Each of these categories have specific requirements, and competitors are judged by a panel on how well they accomplish them. Before competing against others, category participants are required to “walk” one by one to receive full approval from all judges, known as ‘receiving your 10s’. Competitors who make their 10s battle one on one against each other to impress the judges until there is one winner.

Categories:

Virgin Vogue – Fire colors 

Let your flames burn and show off all of your 5 vogue elements to get your 10’s. Your effect must have Yellow, Orange and Red.
This category is open to anyone who has not competed in a Vogue Performance category at any other ball before. Competitors must be able to showcase all 5 elements confidently to make their 10s.

Runway – Trolls 

Inspired by troll dolls, one of the biggest toy fads in the early 1960s, let’s celebrate this famous doll we love/hate on the runway. Walk like a model, glam like a troll!
This category is Open To All - there are no mandatory dance elements. Primary focus on hairstyle.

Bazaar – Nick Cave
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Let us into your fantasy and create a fantastical bazaar look inspired by Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits” work using found materials to create movement with the body. 
This is an EFFECT (LOOKS) category. No dancing involved, however movement is encouraged to show off your work and bring your effect to life.

The Judges:

Photo courtesy of Ralph Escamillan

Ralph Escamillan
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Ralph Escamillan is a queer, Canadian-Filipinx performance artist/choreographer/teacher and community leader based in Vancouver, BC. His arsenal of performance skills include a variety of street dance styles, ballroom, contemporary, circus, and drag. He graduated after 4 years in Modus Operandi, Vancouver’s contemporary dance training program, in 2015. He’s apprenticed with Kidd Pivot and worked with Vancouver companies: Company 605, Co.Erasga Dance, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, Out Innerspace Theatre and is currently on contract with Wen Wei Dance. In the commercial industry, hes worked with choreographers including AJ Aakomon, Luther Brown, Paul Becker and Tucker Barkely, as well as artists Victoria Duffield and Zendaya Coleman, and was a guest dancer for Janet Jackson’s “Unbreakable” tour in 2015. With his company FakeKnot he creates work that strives to understand the complexities of identity using sound, costume and technology. The founder of VanVogueJam, Ralph shares his passion for Vogue/Ballroom culture at his weekly by-donation class and vogue balls, acting as a beacon for the queer dance form in Western Canada.

Photo courtesy of Eddy Alvaro

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Eddy Alvaro
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Dancing almost his whole life, Eddy is a self-taught hip-hop/street dancer with a huge love for all forms of dance. Eddy is a big believer in meshing all styles in dance to gain the best growth. In his high-school career, Eddy, along with some friends, started a bboy/breakdance crew and has performed at cheerleading competitions, basketball half-time shows, grand openings and other special events. As he got older, Eddy and a friend became instructors at Balgonie Dance and Twirl, and at Class Act Studios for a handful of years. Eddy continues to raise his profile in the dance community in Saskatchewan with the VibesYQR Dance Workshops and is always looking for opportunities to help grow this community even more.

Community Engagement Coordinator:

Photo: Daniel Paquet 

Zach Hoggarth

Professionally, Zach works as a freelance graphic designer and communications person. Zach has appeared in Sask Fashion Week 2017, as an actor at Shock House (A local haunted house) and works as a performer / mascot,  T-Rex with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. 

Zach snatched the Bazaar Category Trophy at the WIGS ON FIRE KIKI VOGUE BALL!