Willi Ninja

• S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch▶Play from 00:43:15 · 1 mention in this episode

  Opened the first Love Ball with the House of Xtravaganza

  FashionGodfather of voguing; model coach

• S2E1 · Michelle Visage▶Play from 00:13:02 · 1 mention in this episode

  Michelle met him on the Christopher Street piers

On the scene timeline

1. 1986 · Harlem and downtown

   Harlem's ball scene meets downtown

   Voguing crosses from the uptown balls into the downtown clubs, five years before Paris Is Burning puts it on screen.

   Susanne BartschMichael MustoWilli NinjaPepper LaBeijaParis Dupree

2. 1991 · Cinemas worldwide

   Paris Is Burning reaches cinemas

   Jennie Livingston's documentary makes the Harlem ball houses legible to the world and hands drag its vocabulary.

   Michael MustoMichelle VisageJennie LivingstonWilli NinjaDorian CoreyOctavia St. Laurent

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In the same rooms (aka the gang)