THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project has changed in scale and scope since COVID-19 hit our communities: we have expanded the project in both scale and duration, and we have converted all activities for now to be online/video/on Zoom during shelter-in-place (for the safety of our collaborators and our communities).

THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project will include:

• Movement research, conversation and writing explorations by the members of Sean Dorsey Dance in our rehearsals (on Zoom right now and until it is completely safe to meet in person);
• Video postcards (short dance films) created by the members of Sean Dorsey Dance (SDD) to share online and in community;
• Our online Dictionary of Joy and Pleasure – a FREE resource for YOU!;
• FREE creative project videos made by us — including how to create A Nourishment Altar;
• Free online DREAM LABS: creative exploration and workshop spaces where participants are invited and supported to move/dance/write/sing/creatively express what it is they want and DREAM of for their lives, their bodies, their communities;
• Free online videos created by collaborating artists;
• Once it is completely safe to return to in-person rehearsals, Sean Dorsey Dance will create a new evening-length work: THE LOST ART OF DREAMING will feature full-throttle movement, grand-scale costuming, luscious queer partnering and live storytelling. The work is scheduled to premiere at Z Space (San Francisco) in December 2021.
• THE LOST ART OF DREAMING will then tour to 15+ cities – bringing performances, free DREAM LABS, free trans-supportive dance workshops and community conversations as we travel.

What does it mean to DREAM in a white supremacist culture/country? How do we re/connect to our DREAMS in gender-nonconforming and trans bodies? Were your ancestors allowed to DREAM? Have you ever imagined a joyous FUTURE for yourself? Does DREAMING feel dangerous for you? What would it feel like to have EXPANSIVE thoughts about your FUTURE? What could become possible?