Madonna’s Groundbreaking ‘Truth or Dare’ Helped the LGBT Community at Its Most Vulnerable Time
I’ll never forget May 24,1991. It was a sunny Friday and my friends and I went to the Old Orchard Theater in Skokie, IL. to see the opening of the film Truth or Dare. I was still the only huge Madonna fan left in the group. The other guys respected her up until she did…
‘Strike a Pose’: Berlin Review
Checking in on Madonna’s Blond Ambition dancers 25 years later, this Dutch documentary looks at what happens once the performance high is over and the celebrity bubble pops. Remember when Madonna used to be playful and fierce, and her iconoclastic performance stunts were about pop provocation and spectacular chutzpah, not just frantic bids to stay…
Strike A Pose documentary to hit Dutch cinemas in May 2016
The moving Strike A Pose documentary featuring the dancers of the Blond Ambition Tour in 1990, premiered last night at the Berlinale Festival in Berlin. So far it has been receiving nothing but praise, check the documentary out yourself when it will be shown in Dutch theaters this May. We will keep you up to…
The Berlinale Diaries 2016: The Maestro, the Enigma, a Saudi Love Story & the Madonna Dancers
So far at Berlinale, there have been groundbreaking films, films about love, films about current affairs, movies about the past and some looking to the future. Some push the boundaries of reality, while others really stick our noses into the nitty gritty of surviving, both at home and on the other side of the borders…
Berlin Review: ‘Strike a Pose’ Revisits the Complicated World of Madonna
Linda Posnick Backing singers are rarely name-checked, let alone encouraged to let their own personalities shine alongside that of the star they’re supporting. So the fact that an extraordinarily gifted group of male dancers was front and centre of Madonna’s acclaimed and controversial Blond Ambition Tour of 1990, and the accompanying backstage documentary “Truth or…
Madonna’s Blond Ambition dancers: New film ‘Strike a Pose’ reveals what happened to them
The backing dancers Kevin Stea, Gabriel Trupin and Oliver Crumes by Lisa Guarnieri It’s 25 years since seven male dancers were picked out by Madonna for her Blond Ambition tour. They became gay role models and celebrities in their own right but inevitably the bubble burst, as a new film reveals. It’s just over 25 years…
EXCLUSIVE: THE DIRECTORS OF STRIKE A POSE (interview)
Last week we revealed how directors Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan were preparing to premiere their new documentary, Strike A Pose, at the Berlin Film Festival. Featuring the dancers from Madonna’s iconic Blond Ambition tour and the Truth or Dare documentary aka In Bed With Madonna, they explain what life was like for them at…