THE AFTERMATH BALL HOSTED BY LEGENDARY MOTHER GEORGINA SAINT LAURENT AND MOTHER AMBROSIA GORGEOUS GUCCI
The Aftermath Ball calls on the ballroom community to showcase their skills on the runway at an authentic ball. While Saturday’s performance will be an exciting, novel showcase of Ballroom culture, the Aftermath Ball on Sunday is an opportunity for all members of the community to demonstrate their skills in front of an international panel of judges. The weekend is curated by Legendary Leo Saint Laurent and Ambrosia Gorgeous Gucci.
JUDGES
Iconic Arturo Mugler
German Mother Zoe Elle
French Godfather Mr. Alvaro Gorgeous Gucci
Ria 007
Trophykal Ivy Saint Laurent
German Princess Ashanti Ninja
Zaniah Revlon
MC
Double Legend Mère Mondiale Matyouz Owens
DJ
Missy Revlon
HOSTS
Leo SL and Ambrosia GG
THEME:
For all categories of the night: Neo-Renaissance!
Bring it according to your category and make it fab!
Our location Theater des Westens was built at the end of the 19th century in a style called Historicism, which recreates historic styles such as the Renaissance, now called Neo-Renaissance.
Renaissance is French for rebirth and refers to a period in civilization immediately following the Middle Age. The Neo-Renaissance witnessed the exploration of new systems of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system and a time of the revival of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation. Famous figures of the epoche are Leonardo Da Vinci, Giotto di Bondone or Michelangelo.
As the Renaissance had always been regarded as the epitome of culture, it was mainly employed for the construction of cultural institutions, such as museums, theaters or monuments. NOW IT’S TIME TO RECLAIM IT – similar to Beyoncé on her Renaissance Tour, where she pulls from this time period, but also puts an undeniable Afro Diasporic and Queer and Disco House aesthetic to it.
In Stylistics, the Neo-Renaissance color palette features apple green, lavender, salmon and aubergine; metallic pigments from silver, gold or copper as well as tones of marble and wood used in architecture and interior and the epoche is characterized by a cohesive harmony, decorative elements in form of rectangles and circles, pillars and cornices. Meanwhile Beyoncé uses mainly rhinestones and metallic and shiny materials to create a futuristic twist to the renaissance and disco era.
So be inspired by the original, the Neo and/or Beyoncé’s Renaissance – and bring it Major Scene.
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Georgina Philp aka. Legendary European Mother Leo Saint Laurent is known as a trailblazer of Ballroom in Germany, i.a. the annual Berlin Voguing Out Festival (2012-2016). She was named the first Legend in Germany in 2022 in her main category Womens European Runway. The European chapter of House of Saint Laurent launched in 2012, formerly known as House of Melody, the first German Ballroom House. The historic House of Saint Laurent was founded in NYC in 1982.
So Extra Berlin is a project by German Mother Ambrosia Gorgeous Gucci, with which she curates events in the immediate or wider realm of ballroom. She got in touch with ballroom itself for the first time in 2011 and is an active member of the community ever since, winning prices internationally in her categories Body and Sex Siren. The Gorgeous House of Gucci was founded in 2019 in the US out of the House of Mizrahi.
