Photo by Erin O’Reilly
Seattle’s (self-professed) hottest postmodern, nightlife performance duo, Drama Tops is taking the interstate and coming down to blow us up.
Drama Tops is the artistic partnership of Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue. They began making work together five years ago with the “creation of a solo on two bodies”. The dynamic between their trans body and cis body has created beautiful moments of frustration, competition, tenderness, and comedy.
Here at Risk/Reward, we have an admitted soft spot for wacky props (hey-o, application hack!). Drama Tops are pushing that to the next level. Leather, cordage, ropes, the lights themselves – they are all going to get used. And by inflating so many of their props live, onstage, that just means that many more can fit into the car!
We are over-the-top excited to be presenting this piece, a highly-athletic dance that fuses absurdity with a deep questioning of identity and experience. DADS explores Shane and Elby’s relationships to their fathers, their complex thoughts on becoming dads, and their queer, male thoughts of “getting a Daddy” and “turning into a daddy”. In that context, “daddy” is said in a higher tone with a sassy smirk on their faces, as they reach for the next stage of their journey: becoming “ART DADDIES”.
The Drama Tops will be performing their piece “DADS” as part of the mainstage event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 21st through 23rd, 7pm each night.