Courtney and Josh use drag – explicitly this time – to create the visual aesthetic of a heteronormative ballroom couple.

This quickstep is focused more on the couple’s collective external relationship to their audience, rather than a sense of intimate connection forming between the two partners.

Aesthetically, they choose gender-normative costuming, but their specific choreography presents a more equally balanced power dynamic in their partnership.

“This time, it was my turn to set the record straight, so I did.”