When Brenna Crowley gears up for her workout, she slips into four-inch peep-toe stilettos instead of sneakers. “I thought I knew how to wear heels,” she says. “Then I tried dancing in them.” Since 2017, Ms. Crowley has been strutting an imaginary catwalk and striking a pose at vogue dance classes. Madonna’s 1990 music video “Vogue” cast an international spotlight on the dance form, which emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s in the underground Harlem ballroom scene from the African-American and Latino LGBTQ community.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 23, 2019 09:22 UTC