The company

Since its inception in 1992, The Man Drake Company has pursued work on the frontier between theater and dance, with each discipline influencing the other in a continuing state of friction. Toméo Vergès develops this work through the company's various pieces which, though often theatrical in feel, center around the body. His performances put a new spin on everyday situations - revealing man faced with the absurdity of his world - and bring a worrying strangeness to light. Their tone might be described as surrealist or absurdist—or, in any event, off-color.
This work also finds expression in the company's educational programs, and awareness-raising events. The latter, like the company's staged works, often draw on more than one artistic discipline at a time (such as the visual arts or film), and go beyond the idea of a simple workshop or class, taking on various forms (performances, film screenings, and conferences for example).

In parallel, Man Drake develops "offstage" choreographic forms. Confronting bodies with different kinds of spaces helps give us fresh perspective, feed the imagination, and create a new poetics of the body.