Photo by Lydia Daniller
Date & Time:
April 11, 2025 – April 13, 2025
Fri, April 11 @ 8pm
Sat April 12 @ 8pm
Sun April 13 @ 4pm (with ASL interpretation)
Venue:
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Mission Theater is accessible by public transportation including:
24th Street BART Station, and MUNI Lines 14, 49, 67, 48, 12.
BACK BY AUDIENCE DEMAND! After our sold-out 20th Anniversary Home Season performances in September 2024 were cut short by a heartbreaking COVID exposure, Sean Dorsey Dance is beyond thrilled to announce the much-awaited return of our 20th Anniversary Home Season show!
Celebrate two decades of groundbreaking artistry at Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season (April 11-13 at Dance Mission Theater, SF). For the first time in Sean Dorsey Dance’s history, the company will revisit and perform excerpts of audiences favorites from the last 20 years.
Sean Dorsey Dance will perform a powerful retrospective program featuring two decades of their award-winning trans and queer artistry — with works including Lou (2009) based on the lifelong diaries of trailblazing 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 3 works comprised an award-winning trilogy that the company performed and toured to more than 25 cities across the US.
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.
KN95 Masks will be provided & required for this event. ASL interpretation will be provided at the Sunday April 13 performance.
Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season is performed by: Becca Dean, Sean Dorsey, Brandon Graham, Héctor Jaime, David Le, and Nol Simonse. 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.
Our special 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; and a Sean Dorsey Dance photobooth!
Tickets for this Anniversary event will sell quickly: advance tickets are recommended.
Friday and Saturday tickets are $20-50 sliding scale; Sunday tickets are $5-50 sliding scale. For no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds (NOTAFLOF) tickets beyond this sliding scale, please contact manager@seandorseydance.com.
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.
Photo by Lydia Daniller
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, and mobility-device users.
- All audience seats are armless chairs.
- If you need to reserve accessible seating, please email us at manager@seandorseydance.com. Please specify your access need (eg. if you’re a wheelchair user coming with one companion; if you have mobility access needs and need two front-row seats; if you need to be seated in the ASL seating area for Sunday’s ASL-interpreted performance).
- 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 no nudity, but does have some mature language and themes. 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. Sean Dorsey Dance staff will provide KN95 masks to everyone before they enter the building.
- 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.
Special Thanks to our Lead Community Partners:
The GLBT Historical Society and The Transgender District.
ASL interpreters were coordinated through
Urban Jazz Dance Company’s Access Services
