Thor considers herself a performance artist.
“Every one of the orchestra players I went to conservatory with, or professionally played with, they were always very content with: You practice four hours a day, you take auditions and then when you get a spot and a seat in an orchestra - that’s what your job is now,” Thor explained in an interview with the documentary’s producers.
Earlier in her life, as she recounts in Disruptor Conductor, “I had to choose drag or music.”
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The unprecedented event brought together multiple generations during the city’s 2018 Pride celebrations - young and old, and across the rainbow.įor Thor, who is classically trained on the violin, viola and cello, combining drag with a professional orchestral performance was a pivotal moment. The two main figures behind this crossover - conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and drag star Thorgy Thor - hosted two sold-out shows in Halifax. The documentary Disruptor Conductor shows Symphony Nova Scotia’s journey to create the first orchestral drag show in Canada. But they also share the power to inspire, and recently, they’ve had the chance to overlap. One taps into centuries of tradition and carefully crafted precision, the other lives for unbridled creativity and spontaneity. It often seems like the worlds of orchestral music and drag performance couldn’t be further apart.
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