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
SF Bay Times September 22, 2015 ‘Sean Dorsey Dance: Making Waves and Dancing Bold’ “Bay Area dance fans have the rare opportunity to see award-winning LGBT dance company Sean Dorsey Dance perform twice in San Francisco this month. Sean Dorsey Dance, directed by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey, tours extensively, but will be performing at home […]
DANCE YOUR STORY! Free dance & self-expression workshop for LGBT people & allies! FRESNO Saturday, October 3 3:30pm – 6:00pm FREE! California Arts Academy (4750 N Blackstone Ave, Fresno, CA 93726) RIVERSIDE Saturday, October 4 2:00pm – 5:00pm FREE! Dancing in Riverside Dance Studio (1760 Chicago Ave Suite J11, Riverside, CA 92507) SEBASTOPOL Saturday, October […]
HIV Plus Magazine September 2, 2015 ‘The Missing Generation and Surviving for Decades with HIV’ “People just disappeared. Survivors say that was one of the most disconcerting things about living through the early days of the AIDS epidemic.” Read more of the article.
Sean Dorsey, Sean Dorsey Dance, Shawna Virago, and the Fresh Meat Festival are featured in episode 1 of the new NetFlix series Sense8 by the Wachowskis (directors, The Matrix, Cloud Atlas) and J. Michael Straczynski. Check out our international television debut – millions of people around the globe are introduced to these award-winning transgender artists, the […]
Plenty of choreographers will argue that finding an audience for dance can be a Herculean task. San Francisco–based choreographer Sean Dorsey has what most would consider an added obstacle: He’s transgender, and the dance-theater work he creates for his company deals mainly with transgender and queer experiences. But he says the work is universally resonant. […]
Read what the press has to say about Sean Dorsey Dance’s THE MISSING GENERATION… The Advocate by Jacob Anderson-Minshall The Bay Area Reporter by Khaled Sayed SF Gate by Allan Ulrich San Francisco Bay Times InDance by Claudia Bauer SF Gate by Rachel Howard