How South Africa’s queer underground is remaking ballroom in its own image (DJMAG)

By |2023-12-11T19:19:48-05:00December 11th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Gay, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, South Africa|

  In South Africa's burgeoning ballroom scene, pioneering figures and DJs are finding their own ‘Ha’ in the country's past, and in the contemporary sounds of gqom, amapiano, and Afrobeats. Tazmé Pillay learns more “DJ, cut the beat.” The room falls silent — an unforgivable sin anywhere else, but this is no nightclub. This is a [...]