The Climax Ball

16:00 | Doors open

17:00–23:00 | Ball

Beauty / Body

Face: (FF, MF, NB)
Sex Siren: (FF, MF)
Body: (FF, MF)

Fashion

Fashion Killah
Runway: American/ European

Realness

Female Figure (Drag, femme queen)
Male Figure (Trans men, MF everyday realness)

Performance

Old way/New way
Hands Performance
Baby vogue
Butch Queen Vogue Fem/ butch queen vogue fem in Heels
FF performance
Commentator vs. Commentator
Lipsync

(The categories are not in the ball's order)

OTA: open to all
FF: Female figure
MF: Male figure
FQ: Fem Queen
BQ: Butch Queen
NB: Non Binary
GP: grand prize
TBA: to be announced
10s: getting your tens you can access to the battles
Chop: you are cut from the category

Via Madonna’s “Vogue”, a core element of ballroom culture as it had evolved in late ’60s New York entered straight into the mainstream, and it would take many years for the truth to out. The Sundance award-winning documentary “Paris Is Burning” (1990) was the first film to present audiences with this form of artistic expression, which up until that point had never been seen by outsiders. Among other things, Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Pose” (2018–2021) – arguably the most important fictional portrayal of the scene’s golden age – gave us the varied viewpoints of ballroom’s exponents as “Vogue” was topping the charts: some are thrilled by the broad appreciation of a cultural creation that is both theirs and thoroughly underground, while others – like the character played by the brilliant Billy Porter – are more skeptical of their artistic legacy being turned into a widespread trend.

As a form, voguing took its name from the poses struck by supermodels on the pages of Vogue magazine – fitting since its core dance vocabulary comprises striking, exaggerated, and contrived poses reminiscent of high fashion, as well as ancient Egyptian art. Performers use their arms and legs to form lines and precise movements, quickly shifting from one static pose to another with formidable skill. The dance style has continued to evolve both artistically and aesthetically right through to the present day, and is now a global movement that is being passed down to LGBTQI+ people across the world.

In September of 2020, Onassis Foundation reshaped the former KOCH plastic parts factory into an unexpected space for artistic experimentation and exploration. A huge industrial building, it is situated in an unexplored neighborhood of Rentis, between working-class apartment buildings, dirt roads, and materials yards.
The first Onassis Ready ‘tenants’ arrived and gave life to the former factory.

This year, Onassis Ready hosts the stage performances “Of Mice and Men,” “Aris,” and “The Red Lanterns,” directed by Vassilis Bisbikis. Nikos Karathanos rehearsed there his “Prometheus” which was performed at the Onassis Stegi Main Stage, in October 2021. His ‘roommate’ Lena Kitsopoulou conceived at the very same space her next performance, inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic goth novel “Frankenstein,” which will be staged at Onassis Stegi in May 2022.

Renovation work will soon begin at Onassis Ready and the building will be full of people and lights.