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Getting Severe
House of D.A.M. By Sabrina Bellisimo
The first in a three-part series shot by director and choreographer Robert Halley in Baoshan, China, House of D.A.M.’s Getting Severe is both playful and sexy. Eight dancers clad in all black and occasionally donning kitten masks bring vogue to the streets in this video. A combination of modelling, theatre and dance established in the Harlem ballroom scene, vogue could not be further from its roots in China, but these dancers make it look right at home.
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