Eli Lewis + Joe Garbett // Plue Collaboration Profile
Eli and Joe are a queer couple. Plue is their first collaboration. Having practices that occupy very different corners of the contemporary dance world, at first their collaboration seemed like an unlikely one - a queer little experiment born from necessity, at a pandemic time when people weren't allowed to touch/move/dance with anyone outside their household. Through Plue, Eli and Joe have managed to joyously splice together their very different ways of thinking, creating and moving to make Plue - a piece of queer, genre-defying performance that embraces and expands on the full complexity of both their practices.
The practice Eli and Joe have come together to create is inclusive, care-centered and champions diversity. As queer kids who grew up in rural communities under section 28, they are committed to using Plue’s engagement to uplift rural queer communities & provide queer-led spaces that connect isolated queer people in creative exchange and queer/trans joy.