{"id":75838,"date":"2026-01-02T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/strike-a-pose-vogue-balls-go-mainstream-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:00:04","slug":"strike-a-pose-vogue-balls-go-mainstream-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75838","title":{"rendered":"Strike a pose: vogue balls go mainstream in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by M\u0101ori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington\u2019s national museum<\/p>\n<p>In a large gallery at New Zealand\u2019s national museum in Wellington, a 600-strong crowd cheers ecstatically as a group of fabulously dressed performers take to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>In impossibly high heels, the predominantly M\u0101ori and Pasifika (Indigenous people of the Pacific Islands) performers twist their arms into geometric forms and spiral to the ground, contorting their bodies into outstretched shapes. Other performers parade their highly stylised costumes, while some embody the struts, poses and attitudes of supermodels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/strike-a-pose-vogue-balls-go-mainstream-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by M\u0101ori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington\u2019s national museumIn a large gallery at New Zealand\u2019s national museum in Wellington, a 600-strong crowd cheers ecstatically as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,1078,2229,2729,897,56,79,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-dance","category-drag","category-lgbtq-rights","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-society","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75839,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838\/revisions\/75839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}