CIRCULATION DESK: On Migration | Drama Tops (Shane Donohue & Elby Brosch)

CIRCULATION DESK was born out of the need to reimagine dance criticism. Many iconic artists have circulated through Salt Lake City. They leave to live in other places across the nation, but sometimes they also return. The goal is to have conversations across the nation that connect different geographical hubs for experimental dance. This programming is designed to get at the heart of the complex realities that have inspired and questioned artists across the nation.

On Migration

This season we are thinking about migration in its multiplicity of meaning in hopes to honor the complex way artists migrate today. 

• geographically, the mobility of an artist today and the need to travel to work in various places to make a living in dance. 

• thematically over time, how artists’ ideas migrate over a longer span of time.

• even in how artists migrate through different mediums and career paths and how that impacts the field and cultural landscapes.

Each event date will be an hour long, live, virtual conversation with Halie Bahr (editor of loveDANCEmore) and guest artist/s. We look forward to these personal conversations between artists made public. Please tune in to this pilot program of arts journalism.

Drama Tops | Shane Donohue & Elby Brosch (Seattle, Washington)

Sept. 24, 2026 @ 10:00am MST

Tickets, suggested $15 with sliding scale/pay what you can options!

Online event is held via Zoom Webinars. Access link will be delivered via email the day before the event.

Seattle's [self professed] hottest post-modern, nightlife performance duo, and now maybe group.

Drama Tops is comprised of Shane Donohue + Elby Brosch who make large scale dance performances, perform and produce nightlife events, and run residency programs. Based in Seattle, they have been making irreverent yet touching, impossibly ambitious, nerveracking, and thrilling works since 2017.

Their evening length works include, the nationally touring work, “DADS,” premiered at Washington Ensemble Theater, has toured to TBA at PICA in Portland, OR, and on its way to Red Eye in Minneapolis, MN and University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA; their smash hit "Boys! Boys! Boys!" presented in Velocity Dance Center's Made in Seattle program; and their self produced show, “Drama Tops, this is for you”, at Washington Hall. Drama Tops is proud to be a 2024 National Dance Project Recipient.

Drama Tops frequently guests at drag and variety shows in Seattle. Additionally, Drama Tops curates and runs a residency program called “Off the Lead” in which they provide rehearsal space, stipends, nonhierarchical feedback sessions, and a free public in process showing for three Seattle Queer artists every six months.

Photos by Salt Photo