Best known for a series entitled Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church, Harrell "confronts the history, construction, and interpretation of contemporary dance.
[7][8] Harrell's work, Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church asks the question, "What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the vogueing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
one is predominantly white collective of dancer, looks at minimalist art and making dance accessible to everyone; compare to the underground ball culture that consists of queer people of colour, where dancing is larger than life.
[11] The film documentary Paris Is Burning[12] that inspired Trajal Harrell, which he further questions "why Judson was an accepted part of history but voueging wasn't?
[13] Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church has been theorised by scholars Madison Moore[14] as well as Tavia Nyong'o, in his 2018 work Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life.