The DRPP co-operative consists of local artists—dancers, choreographers, techonologists, app developers, sound designers, costume designers, makeup artists, stagecraft designers, film and photography documentarians—who are diverse in race, sex, gender expression, faith, cultural heritage, and most recently, age and generation. Our collaborative model values each artist's contributions equally as unique voices that are vital to our whole. Collectively, we believe that breadth of background creates a necessary foreground of perspective and accountability thereof. We aim to shatter faulty perceptions of what constitutes a professional versus amateur, particularly through our community engagement programming where we embrace the creative process and contributions of community members. We believe that by integrating community members into our processes, we can better attempt to collaboratively create and implement new practices to invert systemic and inequitable power dynamics and shatter the classism and racism that is so deep-seated in the arts community and curation. 

Similarly, we divest from identifying our projects as specific, singular mediums. Rather, we embrace and value our pluralistic team of makers, and as such, the meeting and mingling of multiple artistic voices and methods challenging one another to create new interdisciplinary ideas. Said ideas are always evolving, not only throughout the collaborative creative process, but more importantly, in acknowledgement and response to how the work serves its larger public audience and their needs and goals.

Since 2010, DRPP has shifted away from the proscenium stage and toward public space, creating site-specific, interdisciplinary performances and experiential artwork to increase inclusivity and accessibility. In the wake of COVID-19, we believe that outdoor performance offers a safe and sustainable format—one that supports and accommodates audience safety and agency to self-organize with healthy distance, timing, and perspective. Inherently, site-specific work democratizes performance for widespread public consumption that is long-overdue. We see public art as an antidote to the classism and systemic racism entrenched in the space of the traditional theater and art venue.