Special Screening of Sean Dorsey Dance’s “Lou” (with Q&A) at Queer Arts Featured

Queer Arts Featured is proud to present a screening of Sean Dorsey Dance’s 2009 work “Lou” in partnership with Fresh Meat Productions. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with creator and choreographer Sean Dorsey.

ASL interpretation will be provided, and the screening/film of “Lou” will have open captions. This is an historic opportunity to view this groundbreaking work in Queer AF’s gallery – which is currently showing the exhibition ‘No One Way’ celebrating Sean and his contemporaries, on a projector screen salvaged from the Castro Theater film screen.

“Lou” is a suite of dances that Dorsey choreographed and Sean Dorsey Dance performed and toured in 2008 and 2009. To create ‘Lou’, Dorsey researched the lifelong journals of Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), a transsexual gay man who lived and died in San Francisco and was a trailblazing activist, organizer and writer. Sullivan broke down countless barriers for transpeople and was literally a friend to hundreds and inspiration to thousands.

Before his death, Sullivan bequeathed 30 years of his journals, letters and papers to the GLBT Historical Society in order to leave a companion for other transsexual and transgender people, to educate and open minds, and to ensure that the progress he had struggled a lifetime for would not be lost.

To create ‘Lou’, Dorsey spent a year reading and researching this collection, hand-transcribed hundreds of diary entries, distilled and narrated 30 years of Sullivan’s journal writings into an original soundscore, and choreographed a suite of dances based on Sullivan’s remarkable journey.

PLUS DON’T MISS!
Queer Arts Featured’s gallery is currently showing a special exhibition “No One Way: Transmasc Art as Activism In The Bay” – that includes a portrait of Sean Dorsey, painted by acclaimed oil painter / artist Éamon McGivern.