“We had a couple of hours to wait, and nothing was open in the airport, so we’re just trying to find a place to crash out. Adrian Xtravaganza… they’re pushing the luggage in the carts, and they’re so tired. So tired. So tired. And then we came by a closed newsstand – like a 9x9x9 kiosk that was closed, but one side of it was all mirrors. And so, Adrian [Alicea] Xtravaganza and Willi Ninja and Doug Elkins pulled out their Walkmanswith their cassette tapes and vogued for three hours in front of that mirror – nonstop. At 3:00 in the morning. Unbelievable. The guy comes by with the mop, and he’s just like, “What the hell?” They were like, “Don’t mop this part.” And he’s like, “No problem.” Two stewardesses came by in the tight skirts and little hats and the click-click-click, the heels. Adrian Xtravaganza and Willi Ninja took off after them, and vogued after them, and cracked them up. This little, young, Japanese man came by, and his jaw hit the floor. And he came in and vogued with them, because knew what voguing was. He was totally a beginner, but he was just … huge face, eyes, mouth: “These are the people I’ve heard about, and they’re here, doing this!” I get goosebumps talking about it. … They would come up to the mirror, roll back out, go back about 20 feet, come up to the mirror again.”
—- Janet D. Clancy, freelance rigger and technical director
Nonlinear Lineage 