Fresh Meat Fest offers antidote to Trump – Bay Area Reporter Artistic Director Sean Dorsey says this year’s Festival will offer audiences an artistic antidote to Tr*mp … with “Community, nourishment, hope … An outlet for rage and frustration. An outlet for joy and bliss. Insight. Wisdom. Sass. Sexiness. Delight. Awe. Beauty.” READ THE FULL ARTICLE […]
Sean Dorsey dance is profiled in Dance Magazine! Read about how Sean Dorsey thinks about what it takes to challenge dance’s gender norms! CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
BOYS BITE BACK is an evening of powerful performance on navigating queer & trans masculinities – featuring new works by Sean Dorsey Dance with guest artists The Singing Bois and Amir Rabiyah. Sean Dorsey Dance‘s all-new dances offer a sneak peek of the company’s upcoming show BOYS IN TROUBLE (premieres in April 2018). As the shadow of Tr*mp’s rule falls over […]
Don’t miss the very RARE opportunity to see panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt — on display at Z Space for THE MISSING GENERATION (May 5-7, SF) by Sean Dorsey Dance THIS WEEKEND! During the early AIDS epidemic, many transgender and LGBT people who died of AIDS complications were not given funerals, due […]
“A powerful blend of utterly gut-wrenching storytelling and sophisticated movement.” (SF Weekly) “Heartbreakingly beautiful – a dance portrait of contemporary LGBT history that is profoundly relevant to all generations.” (SF Bay Times) “gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, and spirit-lifting” (Portland Sun Journal) Kelly-Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) Dates: Friday-Saturday, April 8-9, 2016 Times: 7pm pre-show mixer / 8pm Venue: […]
Sean Dorsey Dance was awarded an IZZIE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text for THE MISSING GENERATION (Soundscore design and text by Sean Dorsey, original music by Alex Kelly, Jesse Olson Bay, Ben Kessler, and Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, sound engineering by Laura Dean). Sean Dorsey Dance was also nominated for Best Company Performance in THE MISSING GENERATION. […]
Experience Sean Dorsey Dance in DC FREE Workshop at The DC Center for the LGBT Community Thurs, Mar 31 5:30-7:30pm Dance Your Story is a free dance and self-expresion workshop for LGBTQ people and allies. Always wanted to dance but didn’t feel comfortable trying because you are trans or LGBT? This all-levels, super-friendly workshop will […]
Experience Sean Dorsey Dance in DC MASTER CLASS AT DANCE PLACE! Wednesday, March 30 at 10:15am Full bodied movement and socially conscious choreography are hallmarks of Dorsey’s style, explored in this intensive master class for professional and pre-professional dancers. Class will begin with a gentle warm-up for the whole body and continue into phrase work […]
Sean Dorsey has been nominated for TWO Isadora Duncan Dance awards: Best Company Performance and Best Soundscore/Text/Music for THE MISSING GENERATION. The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (or “the Izzies”) are the Academy Awards for dance here in the Bay Area. March 21, 2016 Awards Ceremony Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum 701 Mission Street, San […]
In this Preview piece, Andrew Alexander interviews Dorsey about his creation process, collaboration, being trans and dancing, and his company’s now-touring work THE MISSING GENERATION …read more