Sean Dorsey Dance presents its 20th Anniversary Season celebrating two decades of groundbreaking and award-winning artistry by trailblazing choreographer Sean Dorsey. The company will perform a powerful retrospective program featuring "Lou" (2009), based on the lifelong diaries of pioneering trans activist Lou Sullivan, and excerpts from "The Missing Generation" (2015) and "The Secret History of Love" (2012), both based on oral histories Dorsey recorded with LGBTQI+ elders across the US.
These Dorsey dances are powerful explorations of the human experience, featuring his signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision, guts and deep humanity, Dorsey's works have boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance. His works have been praised as "exquisite...poignant and important" (BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "evocative, compelling, elegant" (LA Weekly).
"This Home Season is about legacy, about sharing our history, about uplifting stunning beauty, heartache, resilience and love, especially at this brutal moment in America," says Dorsey. "My work is embodied, joyous, righteous resistance to the massive, national anti-transgender backlash my community is enduring right now," adds Dorsey "There are 643 active anti-trans bills in 43 states this year alone. Our existence, our rights and our freedom of expression are under attack . This is an incredibly important time to uplift trans and queer history and artistry."
The 20th Anniversary lobby experience includes a retrospective photo exhibition of photos of Sean Dorsey Dance by Lydia Daniller and Kegan Marling, a gigantic love letter to Sean Dorsey Dance for audiences to sign, limited edition Sean Dorsey Dance merch, a photobooth and DJ.
$15 - $35.
Presented by Sean Dorsey Dance.
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These Dorsey dances are powerful explorations of the human experience, featuring his signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision, guts and deep humanity, Dorsey's works have boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance. His works have been praised as "exquisite...poignant and important" (BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "evocative, compelling, elegant" (LA Weekly).
"This Home Season is about legacy, about sharing our history, about uplifting stunning beauty, heartache, resilience and love, especially at this brutal moment in America," says Dorsey. "My work is embodied, joyous, righteous resistance to the massive, national anti-transgender backlash my community is enduring right now," adds Dorsey "There are 643 active anti-trans bills in 43 states this year alone. Our existence, our rights and our freedom of expression are under attack . This is an incredibly important time to uplift trans and queer history and artistry."
The 20th Anniversary lobby experience includes a retrospective photo exhibition of photos of Sean Dorsey Dance by Lydia Daniller and Kegan Marling, a gigantic love letter to Sean Dorsey Dance for audiences to sign, limited edition Sean Dorsey Dance merch, a photobooth and DJ.
$15 - $35.
Presented by Sean Dorsey Dance.
Sean Dorsey Dance presents its 20th Anniversary Season celebrating two decades of groundbreaking and award-winning artistry by trailblazing choreographer Sean Dorsey. The company will perform a powerful retrospective program featuring "Lou" (2009), based on the lifelong diaries of pioneering trans activist Lou Sullivan, and excerpts from "The Missing Generation" (2015) and "The Secret History of Love" (2012), both based on oral histories Dorsey recorded with LGBTQI+ elders across the US.
These Dorsey dances are powerful explorations of the human experience, featuring his signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision, guts and deep humanity, Dorsey's works have boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance. His works have been praised as "exquisite...poignant and important" (BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "evocative, compelling, elegant" (LA Weekly).
"This Home Season is about legacy, about sharing our history, about uplifting stunning beauty, heartache, resilience and love, especially at this brutal moment in America," says Dorsey. "My work is embodied, joyous, righteous resistance to the massive, national anti-transgender backlash my community is enduring right now," adds Dorsey "There are 643 active anti-trans bills in 43 states this year alone. Our existence, our rights and our freedom of expression are under attack . This is an incredibly important time to uplift trans and queer history and artistry."
The 20th Anniversary lobby experience includes a retrospective photo exhibition of photos of Sean Dorsey Dance by Lydia Daniller and Kegan Marling, a gigantic love letter to Sean Dorsey Dance for audiences to sign, limited edition Sean Dorsey Dance merch, a photobooth and DJ.
$15 - $35.
Presented by Sean Dorsey Dance.
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These Dorsey dances are powerful explorations of the human experience, featuring his signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision, guts and deep humanity, Dorsey's works have boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance. His works have been praised as "exquisite...poignant and important" (BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "evocative, compelling, elegant" (LA Weekly).
"This Home Season is about legacy, about sharing our history, about uplifting stunning beauty, heartache, resilience and love, especially at this brutal moment in America," says Dorsey. "My work is embodied, joyous, righteous resistance to the massive, national anti-transgender backlash my community is enduring right now," adds Dorsey "There are 643 active anti-trans bills in 43 states this year alone. Our existence, our rights and our freedom of expression are under attack . This is an incredibly important time to uplift trans and queer history and artistry."
The 20th Anniversary lobby experience includes a retrospective photo exhibition of photos of Sean Dorsey Dance by Lydia Daniller and Kegan Marling, a gigantic love letter to Sean Dorsey Dance for audiences to sign, limited edition Sean Dorsey Dance merch, a photobooth and DJ.
$15 - $35.
Presented by Sean Dorsey Dance.
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