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Sean Dorsey Dance 20th Anniversary Home Season


Date & Time:

Venue:

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110


Celebrate two decades of groundbreaking artistry at Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season! Experience a powerful journey through the past 20 years of Sean Dorsey Dance’s repertoire as the company (and special guests) revisit and perform excerpts of audience favorites from the last 20 years!

This anniversary season also features an excerpt from Sean Dorsey Dance’s next show, slated to premiere in September 2025 and tour in 2025-2027. With Sean Dorsey Dance’s signature blend of technical precision, guts, and deep humanity, this special weekend promises an unforgettable celebration of Dorsey’s unique, trailblazing artistry.

Saturday night performance includes a special post-show toast with Artistic Director Sean Dorsey and reception.

Tickets for this Anniversary event will sell quickly: advance tickets are recommended.

These dances are powerful explorations of human experience – featuring Dorsey’s signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision and guts and deep humanity, Dorsey’s work has boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance.

Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season is performed by: Becca Dean, Sean Dorsey, Brandon Graham, Héctor Jaime, and David Le. Lighting Design: Clyde Sheets. Costume Design: Krystal Harfert and Tiffany Amundson. Technical Director: Emily Paulson; Assistant Stage Manager Jessi Barber; Sound Operator Jules Indelicato. Original music composed by:  Jesse Olsen Bay, Anomie Belle, StormMiguel Florez, Alex Kelly, and Ben Kessler.

Tickets for this Anniversary event will sell quickly: advance tickets are recommended.

ABOUT SEAN DORSEY:

Sean Dorsey is an Emmy award-winning choreographer, dancer, writer, educator and activist. Long recognized as the U.S.’ first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has toured his work to more than 35 cities across the US and internationally – and taught with his explicitly trans-positive pedagogy in more than 40 cities.

Dorsey is a Doris Duke Artist, a United States Artists Fellow, and a Dance/USA Artist Fellow. He has been awarded an Emmy Award, five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, and the Goldie Award for Performance. In 2019, he became the first openly-transgender person on the cover of Dance Magazine. Dorsey is the first openly-transgender US artist to be presented by The Joyce Theater (NYC), American Dance Festival, and many other major stages.

As a transgender, white, disabled/Hard-of-hearing and queer longtime social practice artist, Dorsey creates his works over 2-3 years in deep relationship with/in community. Learn more about Sean Dorsey. Learn more about our Company Dancers.

ACCESS INFORMATION:

  • Dance Mission’s entrance, lobby, bathrooms and audience seating areas are all wheelchair accessible.
  • The front row of theater seats are at floor level; all other rows of seating are on risers and require climbing stairs. The front row will be reserved for accessible seating, wheelchair users, mobility-device users, and people who would like to use extra-wide, armless chairs. 
  • The front row of seating features armless chairs; all other chairs in the theater have non-moveable arms.
  • Dance Mission’s bathrooms are all-gender.
  • There will be no strobing or rapidly changing lights at this performance.
  • All ages are welcomed. This performance has some mature language. Parental guidance is advised.
  • Identification (ID) is not required to purchase or pick up tickets.

COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR THIS EVENT:

  • Please note that this show requires all attendees to wear a KN95 mask at all times while in the building, unless someone’s disability, chronic illness or health condition means they cannot wear a mask.
  • By attending the 20th Anniversary Home Season, you agree to the following:
    • You do not have any signs of contagious illness (COVID or otherwise), including pink eye, that aren’t fully explained by a non-contagious health condition that you have
    • If you have had COVID, it’s been at least 10 days since your first symptoms or positive test if you were asymptomatic.

ASL interpreters were coordinated through
Urban Jazz Dance Company’s Access Services