Ballroom Scene Rennes was born in 2021, driven by a small group of people who felt the need to create, by and for themselves, a space where performing means first and foremost surviving, telling one’s story, and transforming. The spark came from a workshop with Vinii Revlon. In Rennes, they were few at the time. They trained in parks, on basketball courts, and under the hall of Le Triangle.

Ballroom originated in New York in the 1960s and 1970s within Black and Latinx LGBTQIA+ communities. Queer and trans people created their own spaces of celebration, their own family structures—the Houses—with mothers and fathers taking care of their members. A ball is not just a competition: it is a ritual of collective affirmation where every performance is an act of existence.

Within a few years, Ballroom Scene Rennes grew to around thirty active members, becoming one of the most dynamic scenes in France after Paris. Transmission, mutual support, chosen family: these are everyday practices rather than displayed values. The CCN and Le Polyblosne open their rooms every week.

LUNNY aka Amanda Louboutin

Lunny joined Ballroom Scene Rennes in 2022 after a workshop with Vinii Revlon, who became his father. He competed in his first ball in 2023, in European Runway and Vogue Fem Performance. A year later, he joined the House of Revlon, a historic house within the mainstream scene.

In 2025, he began drag performance under the name Amanda, an alter ego and identity through which he fully expresses himself in ballroom. Outside of drag, he goes by Revery. That same year, he joined the Kiki House of Louboutin, part of the kiki scene, a younger and emerging tier of ballroom culture.

Amanda now competes in balls across France, representing Revlon, Louboutin, and his first family: Rennes.