Strike a Pose (Trailer)

Strike a Pose examines the behind-the-scenes lives of Madonna’s dance troupe during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour. Six of the seven members of the group were gay, and the film reflects on the experience of taking part in a radical and controversial tour as gay men during the height of the HIV crisis. The tour was documented in the film Truth or Dare, which turned the dancers into prominent figures during the epidemic as they fought for gay rights and freedom of expression.

The film looks back 25 years on the tour itself, as well as on the audition process and how the dancers were selected to join the troupe. It also explores the controversies that followed the tour. Madonna proclaimed herself the mother of the troupe, but in the fallout after the Blond Ambition tour, the group sued Madonna. Only one of the dancers went on to join her on a subsequent tour.