It was the comment on Katy Perry’s space flight you didn’t know you needed. Daniel Hay-Gordon and El Perry (AKA Thick & Tight) dressed as flies on the wall of the Blue Origin space shuttle, costumes made of black bin bags and pipe cleaners, listening to Katy blather about her connection to the universe. How much can they stand before pressing the giant red “Eject” button that sits in front of them?
How to describe what Thick & Tight do? They trained as dancers, but their work is more like cabaret, or dance-theatre sketches. Sometimes there’s text, lip-syncing, imitations of real-life personalities; the absurd and the deadly serious live side-by-side; it can be hugely poignant and hugely silly, a belly laugh or a lump in the throat, a cry against climate change, or Hay-Gordon and Perry disco dancing dressed as Donald Trump in the shape of a bright orange pantomime horse talking out of its bottom.
