Photo by Kegan Marling
Date & Time:
April 23, 2027 – April 25, 2027
Fri, April 23 @ 8pm
Sat April 24 @ 8pm
Sun April 25 @ 4pm *with ASL interpretation*
Venue:
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street, 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.
ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Don’t miss the highly-anticipated world premiere performances of Sean Dorsey Dance’s new full-evening work: “We Choose Each Other” is a powerful evening of dance created as a balm for this moment in America.
Dorsey says, “We know this: again and again, when our communities are under attack and in crisis, when we are being harmed, we choose each other. We choose to hold each other up, we choose to hold each other more tightly. That is what this new work is about – coming together out of deep care and love for each other.”
This new work features Sean Dorsey Dance’s signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater.
Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision and guts and deep humanity, Dorsey’s works have been praised as “exquisite…poignant and important” (BalletTanz), “trailblazing” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “evocative, compelling, elegant” (LA Weekly).
Advance tickets are recommended for this event.
ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS: Performed by: Sean Dorsey, Brandon Graham, David Le, and Nol Simonse. Original music composed by: Jesse Olsen Bay, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Alex Kelly, Cassandra Miller, Alejandro Mosso, and Christophe Zurfluh. Lighting Design: Clyde Sheets. Costume Design: Krystal Harfert. Stage Manager: Emily Paulson. Technical Director: Jessi Barber. Sound Engineer & Operator: Jabari Tawiah. Lighting Operator: Harry Rubeck.
KN95 Masks will be provided & required for this event. ASL interpretation will be provided at the Sunday April 25 matinee performance.
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.
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 Kegan Marling
WE CHOOSE EACH OTHER has been awarded support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
WE CHOOSE EACH OTHER has been co-commissioned by 7 Stages (Atlanta GA), American Dance Festival (Durham NC), Dance Place (Washington DC), Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles CA), and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Kahului HI).
WE CHOOSE EACH OTHER will tour to each of these co-commissioning theaters in 2027 and 2028, and will additionally tour to the Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon WA) and the Reston Community Center Theater (Reston VA).
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-flashing 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 this event, 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 Community Partners:
CUAV (Community United Against Violence)
El/La Para TransLatinas
LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center)
Queering Dance Festival
San Francisco Community Health Center
San Francisco LGBT Center
Sins Invalid
The Transgender District
Trans Thrive (program of San Francisco Community Health Center)
ASL interpreters were coordinated through
Urban Jazz Dance Company’s Access Services
