On Sept. 12, 2012, the World Performance Congress (WPC) was founded in Brooklyn as the premier official organization created to promote literacy, correct history and ideals of the dance the way it was originally conceived through research. Born out of the need to preserve and honor endowed folk traditions for generations to come, the WPC was launched for access to the premier worldwide source of information relating to “Voguing”, The WPC (World Performance Congress) is the premier global resource of information on the classical dance form of voguing.
Artistic influences from pioneering lifetime achievers have historically contributed to ball house culture, media arts, documentaries, books, for over three decades. Enthusiasts worldwide seek information and support services from performance pioneering experts encompassing performance’s overall spectrum. After 40 years of development, Performance has transcended boundaries of it’s cultural roots without representation of an official organization, agency, learning center or historic documentation. The need for an official source of information is at an all-time high.
Unable to partake in writing, travel, activism, and computer literacy, pioneering elders lacked incentives due inevitable health challenges of aging. Eventual fragmentation of visible truths about the genre’s beginnings and pioneering contributors, inevitably resulted in limited information, prevailing lack of historical interests, inevitably resulting in loss of tradition. This fueled the desire to keeping historical documents & artifacts centralized.
After twenty years of research, hands-on activist and writing, the blueprints drawn to fortify intellectual property of predecessors, have fueled the driving force of our mission.
We continue the legacy establishing a timeless forum thus paying homage to the art form’s founders, giving back to the cultural community from which it was born.
Join us as we use technology and social networks to proliferate awareness of authentic history including the tradition’s cultural stages of advancement. Let us bring future generations of global communities together in a fun way, engage them through dance and connect them to the organization.
In developing and providing academic curriculums, official code books, archive repository, certification, and future development programs, authentic research is sound anthropological endeavor. As as startup organization our travel, wellness and technological expenses prompted to need to raise funds for our research group . Contributions of your support are welcome in our journey’s beginning, as we light the torch for performance communities yet to come.
