MetroWeekly.com – By Doug Rule
“I was always kind of fascinated by Martha Graham,” says Dito van Reigersberg about the larger-than-life dance legend. He calls her “an almost mythical figure,” haughty but lonely, naughty and nice. In other words, the perfect base on which to (loosely) model a drag queen.
But van Reigersberg’s Martha Graham Cracker isn’t like most drag queens you know. For one thing, he actually sings. “I sing in a kind of high tenor-y place, sometimes in falsetto,” he says, adding, “[this] is not a full-on illusion: I still have hairy shoulders and a hairy chest.” And at 6 feet, 8 inches in heels, van Reigersberg towers over the audience.