DragRace winner sasha_velour says she's finally able to put out her art without constraints: 'I have the privilege of a blank page'
One of the most revealing things about Sasha Velour is her speech. Not her voice, which is calming—deep and rich, like the fabric in her name—but her idiom, the way she puts her sentences together."When really young children hear a fairy tale, they don't…" she began to tell me, then paused and started over."If the protagonist is of a different gender, that doesn't stop them from identifying with the fantasy.
Velour and I met on an unreasonably cold mid-May day, in her Brooklyn home. She lives with her partner, Johnny, and their greyhound, Vanya, in a dreamy, old-boned house not far from Prospect Park."We just cleaned yesterday!" she said, and settled onto a cinnamon-leather couch with a mug of coffee. We were on the second floor, in a cheerful room with bay windows overlooking the tree-lined street.
"It's pretty much what I've always been dreaming of doing," she said, of"Smoke & Mirrors.""In every previous instance of me doing drag, there were constraints…[Now], I have the privilege of a blank page." Now, she can really do her thing—spectacle, but make it think-y. Magic that hits close to home.I asked her, later, about the process of cultivating this style.
She was in her 20s when she first read about the theatrical history of drag, its roots in Elizabethan theater and Kabuki. Drag embraces realness, as opposed to"reality"; it's the art of staging reverie, enveloping yourself in outsized fantasy, and Velour realized she had"intuitively, instinctively wanted to do that type of performance from a very young age." She had, in fact, been doing it from a very young age.
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