The Dance Centre celebrates Ballroom Culture with its BC Premiere of MY HOUSE, on Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20. The bold new work by the award-winning queer, Canadian-Filipinx choreographer Ralph Escamillan (aka Kiki Legend OA Mother Posh Gvasalia and Canadian Mother Posh Basquiat) brings the familial structure of a Ballroom House to the stage.
photo: David Cooper
Emerging in the 1960s from Black, Latinx, Trans and Queer communities in Harlem – Ballroom culture is perhaps best known for Vogue – a highly stylized competitive dance form which demands symmetry, precision and grace – and its spirit of joyful extravagance covering for its defiant resistance to oppression.
MY HOUSE is a collaboration between The Dance Centre and the Global Dance Connections Series, FakeKnot, the piece features Escamillan, Icon Snoopy 007 Basquiat (Toronto), Legendary Brian 007 (Montreal), and Father Jaws Siriano Balenciaga (Toronto) along with local ballrooms commentators and DJ. The spirited, playful production uses music and movement that carries the liberating truth of being fully oneself on the floor.
photo: David Cooper
Grounded in street, commercial, and contemporary dance techniques that honours the queer, POC, Philippine diasporic identity of Artistic Director, Ralph Escamillan, FakeKnot is an umbrella company that tours its productions across the country and internationally.
MY HOUSE makes its BC debut on Friday, June 19 & Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 8pm at theDance Centre in Vancouver, 677 Davie Street. For showtimes, tickets and detail visit thedancecentre.ca