Shapes & Shades presents:
🏭🏭 THE INDUSTRIAL NOIR MAJOR BALL 🏭🏭
They step into the night shaped by friction and pressure. Boots hit the floor, leather pulls tight, metal weighs the body down. Control sharpens movement, lines clean and deliberate, surfaces dark and reflective. When order breaks, the remains are worn, layered, patched together from what survives use and time. Midnight Anarchy, System Override, Industrial Wasteland; each moment a shape to inhabit, a pulse to follow. Wrists flicked, bodies bend to the rhythm of music, light glints off scraps and steel. The night is alive with edges and weight, and in the push and pull of survival, beauty finds its form...
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⚠️ HEADS UP ⚠️
This is not your regular event!
All Shapes & Shades events are taking place within a Safe(r) Space concept. The events are primarily addressing people, who identify as LGBTQIA+, B*POC or POC. Ballroom is an inclusive space and all bodies are welcome to join and celebrate, but we expect sensitivity, awareness, and allyship for the community, in and outside of Ballroom.
Ballroom takes a firm stance against all forms of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, or any other form of discrimination. We, the Shapes & Shades collective, will serve as an awareness team at the events, to make sure that the house rules are respected.
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When?
11.04.2026
TBA: Entry Participants
TBA: Entry Audience
TBA: LSS
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Where?
Theater Oberhausen
Will-Quadflieg-Platz 1
46045 Oberhausen, Germany
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Registration & Price?
Participants - TBA
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFE_LB-RO4nwAFlrcRW3TottKW5p__-POZIhvmmeZfgQhc9A/viewform
Audience - TBA
Ticket link is following soon.
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🎉 LINE UP 🎉
🎧 DJ
Seven Garcon
Bree 007
🎤 MC & HOST
Legendary EU Father Typhoon Basquiat
🙌 JUDGES
Michael Alpha Omega
Legendary Matyouz G. Gucci
Legendary Axoo Prodigy
Legendary Naimah 007
Yukiko Revlon
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🏭 THEME 🏭
Please choose one of the following overall themes for your look:
🖤 MIDNIGHT ANARCHY 🖤
Midnight Anarchy is raw resistance distilled into dress. This is grunge and punk stripped of nostalgia and sharpened into silhouette. Leather dominates the body, cut sharp and worn hard, punctured with spikes and chains, boots built for confrontation.
Style as refusal, beauty found in danger.
🤖 SYSTEM OVERRIDE 🤖
System Override replaces chaos with control. Humanity is optimized, bodies engineered into machines of perfection. Metallic suits, sculpted silhouettes, black surfaces interrupted by neon circuitry. Lines trace the body like code, while silhouettes suggest speed, control, and artificial perfection.
⚙️ INDUSTRIAL WASTELAND ⚙️
Industrial Wasteland exists after the system fails. The palette shifts to dusted neutrals, sand, rust, and worn blacks, layered with salvaged materials and broken technology. Beauty is improvised. Scraps, distressed fabrics, and upcycled elements suggest adaptation rather than decay.
🏭 CATEGORIES 🏭
⚠️ DISCLAIMER:
Body oils, liquid colours and any pyrotechnics (fire effects, etc.) are not allowed by the venue! Failure to comply might result in a fine!
CASH PRIZE CATEGORIES
CASH PRIZE #1
TEAM PERFORMANCE - 1000€ 🏆🏆🏆🏆
(each Team should consist of four people, with no more than two people from the same house)
(If you would like to participate without being part of an invited Team you have to add 50€ to the pot)
TEAM CAPTAINS:
Team TBA
Team TBA
Team TBA
Team TBA
CASH PRIZE #2
TAG TEAM RUNWAY - 500€ 🏆🏆
1 ALL AMERICAN RUNWAY + 1 EUROPEAN RUNWAY
CASH PRIZE #3
FACE - 500€
FF Face 🏆
MF Face 🏆
GNC Face 🏆
+ OVERALL for the cash 🏆
REGULAR CATEGORIES
REALNESS
Butch Realness 🏆
FQ Realness 🏆
TM Realness 🏆
BQ Realness 🏆
PERFORMANCE
Beginners Old Way vs New Way 🏆
Beginners Vogue Fem 🏆
Hands Performance 🏆
Arms Control 🏆
Old Way 🏆
New Way 🏆
Vogue Fem OTA 🏆
FASHION
Fashion Killa 🏆
Bizarre 🏆
Sneaker vs Sneaker 🏆
RUNWAY
Beginners All American Runway 🏆
Beginners European Runway 🏆
BODY&SEX
FQ Body 🏆
TM Body 🏆
FF Body 🏆
MF Body 🏆
GNC Body 🏆
FF Sex Siren 🏆
MF Sex Siren 🏆
GNC Sex Siren 🏆
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Who is Shapes&Shades?
In order to spread the culture and provide a playground to explore different categories, the Shapes&Shades collective is hosting monthly mini-balls, workshops and panel talks.
This time the collective is here with a full on festival including two balls and workshops with international guests. Stay tuned!!!
Want to check out the whole program and other workshops?
Follow @shapesundshades on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shapesundshades/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shapes.und.shades/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shapesundshades
and stay tuned.
Event Venue
Theater Oberhausen, Will-Quadflieg-Platz 1, 46045 Oberhausen, Deutschland, Oberhausen, Germany
Tickets
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