About "Flagging": The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is known for its artistic influences and inspirations worldwide. It is important to record our culture from within our community for accurate representation and empowerment, so we can share our history and legacy with future generations. "Flagging", now in early production, will be a documentary about the history of the gay performance art forms "flagging and fanning" that originated in the 70's in the gay clubs in the village of New York City. This improvisational performance art form includes flags, fans, fashion and dance, and is a very spiritual experience for mind, body and soul. The flow of the flags and the body to the music is an empowering experience, now used as a therapeutic art form by children and adults with disabilities. The documentary will highlight the music, the making of flags and fans, the impact flagging has on community and corporate America, and how it touches peoples' hearts. Teaching children and people with disabilities will demonstrate the progression of a "hard-core" gay performance art form into healing and the mainstream.—Anonymous
Flow Affair captures the history of the New York City, San Francisco and Chicago Flag, Fan, Poi and Floguing dance community, and the passing down of this thirty year old Greenwich Village Gay Disco Dance Tradition, with its origin in the gay leather bars.
The fan dance is a 6000 year old Chinese tradition and was westernized by the gay leather community in New York City in the late 1970's.
Flagging and fanning is a spiritual, individual, and healing dance, massaging the energy around you with colorful tie-dyed silk fabric fans & flags that glow in the black light. It is a mesmerizing experience to watch.
Flaggers and fanners are forming tribes and are bonding with each other because of the transformation they all go through.
When they flag, they are in the moment with the music, creating with the music. During their performances, they are revisiting their deeper inner feelings and emotions, making this dance a form of meditation, and they learn who they are as individuals on the dance floor. The flags and fans become an extension of their dance, making this dance form unique and very entertaining to the disco goers.
Flags and Fans have their own voices and after you got bit by the flagging bug, the energy in your life will change.
Featuring Xavier Caylor, George Jagatic, Nelia, Vishnevsky, Felipe Grandinetti, Aaron Enigma and Javier Ninja, also featured are disco historian Man Parrish and Kevin Omni.
Music by Melba Moore, Melisa Morgan, Man Parrish, Jerico of the Angels, Michael OHara, DJ Chip Chop and Mykel.
