I'm counting four parts of a drag performance right now the look the lip-synch emoting and dancing
Lip-synching is one of the cornerstones of drag and the reason I think that drag queens do it is
As I said drag is a shamanism
so you're taking these spirits of these dead divas or unreachable divas and
Channeling them into the room so that people on the margins who might not be able to see them live
Suddenly have them right in front of them. It's not some fussy thing when a drag queen is trying to nail a lip-sync
She wants to create that illusion that the sound is coming from her
To touch the person with this voice a great
lip syncher
involves their whole face and body with the words in the song and
their mouth movements, of course
Obviously hit all the consonants but their mouth movements also move their entire face and throat
I'm gonna give you the key elements of drag
Dancing one is the Bob versus Derrick Berry move
The hip-hop pop hip pop pop hip pop pop sideways across the stage America loves it
It looks way more complicated than it is for some reason
And that's really key to all drag drag moves. It's like
simple thing that looks complicated which brings us to
The drag pirouette you don't even have to make the full spin if you just turn a little bit your hair flies out
Shablam, you've created a moment
Next the cartwheel if you do it fast
It looks like a flip and suddenly you are called a ninja or gymnast Queen you have accomplished it. All the next is any
kind of splits and I'll call them drag splits because
Splits go all the way to the floor. The legs are straight. The knees are straight drag splits are anything in the area?
if you jump into
splits with one knee bent
Everyone's still with it if you jumped into the splits and look everyone in the eye while almost being near the floor great
it's all good a
Mix is pop culture
Moments that people love if it's a pop song something from a cult film
Something less familiar just Netflix memes viral videos drag is on numerous. Just relax. It's fine
I said it's fine. You just won't ever see me again, please, please. I'm so sorry. I said get off don't touch me
Basically putting things that people love together in us in a format that you love in a story
that's what a mix is and I love a mix because a mix lets, you know can a drag queen think
can she tell a story and a queen that people do not know yet, but they will know is
He's your car her mixes that she makes are so good
She will usually decide to be so offensive or so political or so completely pointless
That you don't know how to deal with this
Whatever part of dancing you're doing you have to enjoy it if you don't enjoy it
It will show I get away with some of the shittiest offbeat dancing in America
I love it so much and that's something about drag audiences
Love to see you love doing something and they're like she is having such a great time
That's what there's a there's like look at her. She's having a great time and goddammit. I am