DAD ROCK performed at The Shed's Griffin Theater, June 27-29, 2024. It was produced by M-34 as part of The Shed's "Open Call" series.

 

Sound by Michael Costagliola, choreography by Tess Dworman, scenic design by Kate Campbell, lights by Kate McGee, stage management by Isaac VanCuren, production management by Anne Troup.​

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The show was a solo performance by writer-performer Kyle Dacuyan.

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You’re driving. You’re flying.
You’re working. You’re listening.
To WBXI 104FM. Hi stranger.
Hi caller. You heard it here first.
This one’s just for you.

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Dad Rock is an episodic monologue featuring poetry, movement, and music. Across a series of inquiries into language and gesture, Kyle Dacuyan disassembles cultural constructions of masculinity—heroes, fathers, and empires. What experiences of threat, harm, isolation, and trauma do these figures and structures arise from? What speech, songs, and choreography are they made of? What patterns of violence do they perpetuate? Libidinal and tender, volatile and introspective, Dad Rock swaggers from the personal into the geopolitics of the present.​​